I don't want to minimize the possibilities -- the bad stuff that's been mentioned is NOT to be ignored, but:

You say there was a long bus trip. I had an assortment of not-so-long airplane rides this last week, and ended each day of flying in some wicked pain too. Home since Tuesday night, things are finally starting to feel much more normal. Yup, over a week...

DH has decided he prefers window seats on airplanes. He seems to have decided that I really like center seats.

I'm not small enough to be comfortable sitting between two people who are larger than me. It's hard to spend a couple of hours at a time sitting with one's arms crunched tightly at one's sides as though FIRMLY duck-taped to the rib cage with no expansion space allowed for breathing. Oh, and in that curled position that those evil airplane seats force me into -- also aids in the reduction of breathing space...

It was seriously painful to lay in the strange bed at night, for the whole trip, and yes, the first couple of nights at home too -- so I have to ask:

Did you also enjoy the pleasures of not enough personal space during your trip???

Karen in Boise