Fly or drive??

I'd love to take a vacation, but right now, I don't want to do either. Flying is a nightmare. The airports are insane. Unless I absolutely have to be somewhere for some reason, I'm not getting on a plane. Planes and airports are crowded, and COVID is still happening. It's too stressful. I just don't want to deal with it. Ga$ prices are through the roof and climbing. So, I won't be driving any great distances. The only thing I've considered doing at this point is driving to the beach and staying for a few days. Other than that, I have no interest in traveling at this time.

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Not really excited about a 12 hour drive, so had booked a cheap flight back in January. Then it was changed to have a 5 hour layover at an airport, so paid more to change the return to a day earlier. Then I got Covid and couldn't go anywhere for a few weeks. Now the airports are crazy. I have a year to use that plane ticket, but may just drive and stay overnight on the way and wait til next spring to use the flight.
 
I have been making reservations to go to New Mexico mountains where it is cooler. I will drive. It is twelve hours from where I live but possible to do all at once which is what I usually do. This will be my first outing since Covid started but figure I can't stay at home forever.
 
Being a small Island there's only so far you can drive in this country before you end up in the Sea...
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DebraMae said:
I have been making reservations to go to New Mexico mountains where it is cooler. I will drive. It is twelve hours from where I live but possible to do all at once which is what I usually do. This will be my first outing since Covid started but figure I can't stay at home forever.
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I live in NM, & it is cooler in the Mountains, especially RedRiver, but check to be sure your intended destination hasn’t been affected by fires or the subsequent run off/flooding from recent rains. And wherever you park and lock your car in NM, DONT EVER leave anything in it that you hope to see ever again.
 
Geezerette said:
I live in NM, & it is cooler in the Mountains, especially RedRiver, but check to be sure your intended destination hasn’t been affected by fires or the subsequent run off/flooding from recent rains. And wherever you park and lock your car in NM, DONT EVER leave anything in it that you hope to see ever again.
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Thanks for the advice. Actually I have been going since I was a teen. I remember some boys wanting me to go to the dump with them to shoot bears with bows and arrows. Of course my parents did not allow that, but the memory has remained. I plan to spend some time in Taos and do the high road from Santa Fe to Taos one day. I have never driven it. :)
 
I will be going to San Diego from Phoenix in a couple of weeks. It is about a six hour drive. Before 9/11 I often flew on the trip there but post 9/11 I find it easier just to make the 6 hour drive instead of dealing with the airports in Phoenix and San Diego.
 
I stopped flying in 1984.Flew one more time in Dec.2020 because my girls begged me to fly to Idaho with them,which was how we ended up moving here. Now I/we have made at least 8 trips back and forth from here to California (a couple I made alone)-a 10 hour drive. Lots of it is long,boring flat roads-sometimes we take the longer route just because it`s a little more scenic. I love road trips. I can`t envision ever wanting to fly.

All that being said,when I went to get my Idaho driver`s license a few months ago,the clerk told me that if I had one more piece of identification with me(I did),she could issue me a RealID at no extra cost. I said no thanks,since I have no intention of flying ever again. But since then I have thought about it and will probably get one.If there was ever a problem with the kids or grands in California,I would want to get there ASAP. Although flying might not even get me there faster as I would still have a 3 hour drive from the airport...
 
Marie5656 said:
As I am a white knuckle flyer, I do not make that choice unless I HAVE to. I took a train once, and enjoyed that and would do it again.
I would consider driving if it were simply a few hours to my destination.
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Same here, the little bit that I've traveled by train I enjoyed it. My huzz, however hates trains; we took a train trip in the mountains that I really enjoyed, they served you a really nice dinner in this fancy, old-fashioned-looking dinner car, there was an open-air car where you could look at the pretty scenery, really nice I thought but he's never stopped complaining about it since that it was so boring, etc. (His thing is if he's moving, he wants it to be him and only him whose foot is on the gas pedal. So he also hated the tour bus trip we took to the horseraces once.)
 
Alligatorob said:
Did that drive once, opposite direction, San Diego to Phoenix.

I choose a really bad traffic time and it took more like 10 hours.
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Traffic can get really bad in both areas if you choose the wrong time ! What is amazing to me is driving to LA. Once outside of Palm Springs it feels as though you are in LA even though it is still 100 miles or so away.
 
I fly anywhere if the drive is longer than 6 hours. Airports are busy, but you have to just relax and go with the flow leaving yourself plenty of time to make sure you don't need to rush through security. I have nothing left but time now that I am retired.
 
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