And you thought you had a bad day..

[Hellrazor]

BERLIN, Germany (Reuters) -- A 21-year-old German tourist who wanted to visit his girlfriend in the Australian metropolis Sydney landed 13,000 kilometers (8,077 miles) away near Sidney, Montana, after mistyping his destination on a flight booking Web site.

Dressed for the Australian summer in T-shirt and shorts, Tobi Gutt left Germany on Saturday for a four-week holiday.

Instead of arriving "down under", Gutt found himself on a different continent and bound for the chilly state of Montana.

"I did wonder but I didn't want to say anything," Gutt told the Bild newspaper. "I thought to myself, you can fly to Australia via the United States."

Gutt's airline ticket routed him via the U.S. city of Portland, Oregon, to Billings, Montana. Only as he was about to board a commuter flight to Sidney -- an oil town of about 5,000 people -- did he realize his mistake.

The hapless tourist, who had only a thin jacket to keep out the winter cold, spent three days in Billings airport before he was able to buy a new ticket to Australia with 600 euros in cash that his parents and friends sent over from Germany.

"I didn't notice the mistake as my son is usually good with computers," his mother, Sabine, told Reuters.

[jackellis]

I used to travel to Montana all the time on business. Before the Internet, I'd use the Minneapolis forecast in our local paper as my rough reference for the temperatures in Montana and decide whether I needed an overcoat, which always got filthy no matter how careful I was.

On one trip in late October, I left without an overcoat because the low in Minneapolis was forecast to be 32. By the time I arrived in Bozeman, it was below freezing in blowing snow and all I was wearing was a sports jacket and sweater. A friend I was meeting for dinner loaned me some gloves and off I drove to Butte, in temps that were steadily dropping, with a car heater that was not working too well. Temp in Butte, typically one of the coldest places in the state, was 15 below! If the car had died, I'd have died with it.

I got a little smarter after that adventure.

[dlminehart]

I heard about someone flying from LA to Oakland who accidentally got on a plane to Auckland, New Zealand. In this case, he had the right ticket, wrong plane, unlike the guy who bought the ticket to Montana.