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I prefer to sleep in my own bed, so I have a nice little travel trailer and I drive if I am not going too far.
For long distances, I fly.
However, it is just me traveling by myself. I think that having a large family makes a difference. It gets cheaper to drive if you must buy 3 or more plane tickets.
There are some benefits to driving. You get to stop and enjoy all the sights and landmarks and any National Parks you happen to pass. Also, when you get to where you are going, you have a car.
If I had to 'fly commercial', I would not fly at all. Airports have become nightmarish places (not just psychos in 'security', but blaring televisions, blaring 'lite rock' music, and on and on...). And frankly, with direct flights coming in, now, from the hellholes of the Earth, who knows when you'll be seated next to someone carrying the new One Hundred Percent Drug-resistant Tuberculosis?
When I don't find it feasible or cost-effective to 'fly private', I drive. I used to fly a whole lot more.
It really depends. Cost is generally not my prime motivating factor. If the scenery will be worth looking at, I'll drive. If I've going to spend three days looking at corn fields, get me on a plane.
I prefer flying.. But let me say this Give me 3 days of nice quiet corn fields rather than 1 day of 70MPH competitive driving on the interstates.
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I prefer flying.. But let me say this Give me 3 days of nice quiet corn fields rather than 1 day of 70MPH competitive driving on the interstates.
Me 2 !!! Add to that the countless hours of prairie, golden grain, or Sunflower fields of Canada and ND !
I LOVE the remote stretches (tho often drive them at night). Little is as beautiful as the glistening frozen prairie on a moonlit night. And the distant lightning storms of the great plains on the long summer nights.
I don;t see you location posted. I assume you are from California!!
Florida but drive all around the country with work. Two best stretches are I-95 between Greenwich and New Haven, and I-95 between Hollywood and Coral Gables.
Well, and of course almost anywhere rural on I-10 in the southwest and 70-80-90-94 in the central states.
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I prefer 80 mph competitive driving...
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...drive all around the country with work. ...Well, and of course almost anywhere rural on I-10 in the southwest and 70-80-90-94 in the central states.
SO obviously you enjoy the TX 80 mph speed limits! (And MT... NO speed limits (which is no longer valid)).
As a college kid / professional truckdriver (many decades ago), I enjoyed the WY routes where we AVERAGED 80 mph including stops. Open Range was a bit dicy with 1200# critters wandering around. AND the boss got a little irritated having to post bond when drivers got jailed for 100mph + passing through Cheyenne and Laramie (coming off Sherman Pass).
I guess in effect we were FLYING (for the era).
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I agree with those liking the rural drive. Hope to get a car that will allow sleeping in the back for those long, exploritory road trips!
Thus, I use my 52 MPG Passat Wagons for that (Sleeping + CHEAP road trips). They will be getting "motoraid" Hot Water Heaters this yr, and a small portable holding tank for Warm outdoor shower / or soup / cocoa. Since they burn FREE cooking oil (or discarded Jet A), they cost per mile is ONLY tires, maint and depreciation (Very low on a $1200 car + I get my tires for $5 at the wrecking yr). Never a problem in 3 million fleet miles.
But... when I can get a <$100 rate to fly cross country, my 50 mpg FREE fuel cars stay parked. I need to save them for LATER fuel price increases / mileage needs.
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But let me say this 
Give me 3 days of nice quiet corn fields rather than 1 day of 70MPH competitive driving on the interstates.
!!
(And MT... NO speed limits (which is no longer valid)).
