Drive or Fly

It's a hard decision these days. With gas prices going up the cost of both a road trip and an airplane flight have risen by leaps and bounds just in the last year. But driving is still the answer at least for this next trip we will be taking. We are packing up the family and heading to Kentucky. Our family reunion is held in Slade, Kentucky every year and so in a week and a half we will be off again. We have the option to fly of course but the closest we can get by plane is Lexington which means we would have to rent a car anyway or get another family member to pick us up and when you factor in the baby and figuring out how to carry a car seat with us on the plane plus the plane ride itself it just isn't worth it. Also since we have a mini cooper we get great gas mileage and even if we have to spend the night on the road it will still be less than flying. Round trip tickets for two (hubby and I, the baby is still free) it is $666.00 . In Goldie (the mini) the gas round trip will cost about $200 even at $4 per gallon . Factoring in the hassle of flying with the price there is just no way it is worth it to fly. Now all that could change if it turns out my husband can not go with us and then the prospect of just me and the baby alone in the car for 12 plus hours or two days worth of driving does not sound so appealing.

If that happens then we might just fly to Atlanta and have my mom pick us up on the way up from Florida. With all the logistics that traveling entails you would think it would be a turn off but traveling is the one thing in which the ends almost always justify the means. I guess that is how you know you truly love to travel, if all the problems and changes and nitty-gritty planning of a trip excites you just as actually traveling does.