Are we bad luck??

I was thinking last night about how many 'this is the worst ever....' events there have been on our travels. Steve and I have definitely heard that expression a few times, so I decided to make a list:

1) In manhatten, NYC, they had the worst flash floods the locals had ever seen due to tropical storm Hanna off the east coast of the USA

2) One of our stop off's in the USA, Texas City, Texas, had to be avoided as it was smashed up by Hurricane Ike

3) LA was having a heatwave when temperatures reached around 35C

4) Fiji had an outbreak of Dengue Fever when we were there, although we didn't find this out until after we left.

5) Melbourne had its hottest temperature on record hitting 45.6C on January 12th. There was also the longest period of consecutive day temperatures of above 40C.

6) The worst bush fires in Melbournes history, spurred on by the extreme temperatures, began on Black Friday, 12th Jan 2009.

7) And lets not forget the worst economic collapse since 1929. Which has made work very tricky to find.

8) And since deciding to travel SE Asia over the coming few weeks Thailand is on the brink of a military coup.

I guess its things like this that make the trip memorable.

Just thought it was interesting anyway, I'm sure we'd be complaining if it was dull!