Sim stuck in soft lock after attempting to travel

I recently purchased university and tiny living. Played for quite some time with no issues after update, and have all expansions except a few stuff packs (fitness stuff, spooky stuff, and luxury party stuff are missing)

It started last night on my file I play often that has loads of gallery downloaded characters and self built houses with NO CUSTOM CONTENT OR MODS. 

I first got a text invite from another character to go to a lounge for a talent show. I accepted, and selected travel with selected sim to lot when the text option popped up, which USUALLY takes you straight to the venue or at least the area mentioned. Not this time folks! This time, it brought me to the travel screen, and I spent 30 mins finding the venue mentioned to locate my sim, clicked on it, clicked travel with active household only selected, and it brought me right back to the neighbor travel select screen. 

I reset my file to the save before that and played the game on my lot for a bit, before deciding I wanted to travel to the magic realm. This time, I saved AFTER I started to initiate travel, and she went to the town, but again, I was thrown into some sort of soft lock, travel loop! 

After all that, I decided to delete the file. And assume it was corrupted which broke my heart. So many hours of gameplay! So I start a new file. And test out travel. Works fine! So then I build my new house and my new main character, play for a bit, and shes a witch, so I click on the rune or crystal for traveling to the magic realm in her pocket, and travel... wouldnt you know it, stuck in the loop. Shes stuck in the magic realm. I cant select her without being stuck back into the loop. And now when I try to load the file, it crashes the game. I think the game is unplayable. It's possible that it only happens when traveling form a tiny home lot, because I did not assign the test lot I used to be a tiny home...

Please help! I want to play my game!