There is a certain minimum threshold before bothering to take a flight becomes viable, and that’s if your flight is about 3 hours long or more. Otherwise you may as well drive if you can, because the amount of time you spend getting to the airport, getting fondled by the TSA, checking in, waiting to board, standing around in lines, waiting for your bags to show up, renting a car at your destination, etc. all adds up to be the same as just driving. It’s not actually any faster to fly when it still takes all damn day.
And then you can bring all your knives or weed or liquid bottles more than two ounces or whatever it is you’re into without getting thrown into Gitmo and when you arrive you already have your car (or motorcycle).
Hard disagree, driving from Bilbao to Seville is like 8 hours, the flight is below 2. Accounting for airports and commutes, the plane method is still about 4h, that’s half the time and you can sleep.
I need to travel from the east coast to Denver and the only reason I’m flying is because work wouldn’t let me file a mileage expense for a couple thousand dollars.
My wife works for the state and had to go from Columbus, OH to Detroit, MI for a professional conference. That’s about a 3 hour car ride.
She’s not allowed to take a personal vehicle to go.
State vehicles are not allowed to leave the state.
She had to fly there. She said it was easily slower to fly when factoring in getting to the airport, checking bags, etc. than to drive.
If youre going on a full family trip, those tickets add up quickly. Not to mention if you’re going to a place like the beach and youre bringing beach toys for the kids, it makes so much more financial sense to drive. In addition to just travel to get there, youre also looking at a car rental, some way to either bring car seats on the air plane (this sucks) or pay more money to rent them when you get there.
I flew across the US with a 5 and 3 year old. It was fucking miserable. We also werent risking missing a connecting flight (because getting them to a hotel would have been an abomination) , so we made sure that we had plenty of time on our lay over. Spent a whole day to travel
The key is to split it into two or three days of driving.
One 12 hour stretch of driving is miserable, but I’ve taken a few days to drive to some remote destinations and when your goal is 4 hours for the day you don’t feel any pressure to skip a detour to see something interesting, take a longer lunch or do an extra rest stop just to shake your legs. You just need to set your expectations that the drive is part of the trip and not just the preamble.
I met someone from Kansas and they talked about how it wasn’t so bad and that they still can vacation to see cool places.
Then they talked about their 12 hour road trips to Wisconsin and Southern Texas and it made me feel kinda sad for them!
Road trips beat commercial flights though imo
There is a certain minimum threshold before bothering to take a flight becomes viable, and that’s if your flight is about 3 hours long or more. Otherwise you may as well drive if you can, because the amount of time you spend getting to the airport, getting fondled by the TSA, checking in, waiting to board, standing around in lines, waiting for your bags to show up, renting a car at your destination, etc. all adds up to be the same as just driving. It’s not actually any faster to fly when it still takes all damn day.
And then you can bring all your knives or weed or liquid bottles more than two ounces or whatever it is you’re into without getting thrown into Gitmo and when you arrive you already have your car (or motorcycle).
Hard disagree, driving from Bilbao to Seville is like 8 hours, the flight is below 2. Accounting for airports and commutes, the plane method is still about 4h, that’s half the time and you can sleep.
I’m going to Montreal next month and we’re driving because the flights from Columbus aren’t that much faster.
I need to travel from the east coast to Denver and the only reason I’m flying is because work wouldn’t let me file a mileage expense for a couple thousand dollars.
My wife works for the state and had to go from Columbus, OH to Detroit, MI for a professional conference. That’s about a 3 hour car ride.
She’s not allowed to take a personal vehicle to go. State vehicles are not allowed to leave the state. She had to fly there. She said it was easily slower to fly when factoring in getting to the airport, checking bags, etc. than to drive.
If it takes 4 hours to drive, I rather take a plane
After 12 hours of driving a car you’re exhausted and could’ve gotten in an accident
If the plane tickets were cheap enough, I wouldn’t even think twice.
If youre going on a full family trip, those tickets add up quickly. Not to mention if you’re going to a place like the beach and youre bringing beach toys for the kids, it makes so much more financial sense to drive. In addition to just travel to get there, youre also looking at a car rental, some way to either bring car seats on the air plane (this sucks) or pay more money to rent them when you get there.
I flew across the US with a 5 and 3 year old. It was fucking miserable. We also werent risking missing a connecting flight (because getting them to a hotel would have been an abomination) , so we made sure that we had plenty of time on our lay over. Spent a whole day to travel
The key is to split it into two or three days of driving.
One 12 hour stretch of driving is miserable, but I’ve taken a few days to drive to some remote destinations and when your goal is 4 hours for the day you don’t feel any pressure to skip a detour to see something interesting, take a longer lunch or do an extra rest stop just to shake your legs. You just need to set your expectations that the drive is part of the trip and not just the preamble.