"It's been one hell of a ride"

Posted by Siliq on October 07, 2006

In "It's been one hell of a ride"
What does this sentence mean? What's the connotation of "one hell of a" (is it to say the following thing good or bad)? And also there a many different meanings of "ride", so what's the meaning of the "ride" here?

• "It's been one hell of a ride" ESC 07/October/06