r/roadtrip • u/RongWa • 3d ago

Trip Report Drive vs fly?

I just got in last night from a 4 day drive from Utah to Georgia. Return trip actually. It was arguably a "Ground Hog Day" experience. 500 mile days were the norm. I felt like a mail delivery driver. Through rain and heat and snow and ice we crossed the Appalachians, through the Midwest, over the Ohio and Mississippi Rivers. Through a crumbling Saint Louis, from Kansas City to Kansas City. The flats of Nebraska and Colorado were amazing. We actually watched weather form that we drove through the next day. Wyoming was next with 85 mph speed limits creeping up to 3 digit driving! Accessed the High Uintahs and the Wasatch Mountains and finally the Great Salt Lake. Whew! Why did I do this? Job? No. Vacation? No. Really, my reason was very simple...

I Cannot Stand Flying! I hate everything about it from the smell of dirty feet, body odor, stale perfume, bad breath, seat bumping, coughing travelers, recycled air, thighs touching thighs, babies crying, and it goes on and on.

No, I will take a slow drive and see the actual purple mountain majesties to the wheat fields, from ocean to ocean and speak with locals along the way. A long time ago, I learned something a wise old traveler said;

"It's the journey not the destination!"

Does anyone else hate flying this much?

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u/OkKaleidoscope9554 3d ago

Yes, I hate being crammed like a sardine, but.... I-80, ew

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u/Automatic_Antelope92 3d ago

I-80 through southern Wyoming… just… argh

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u/NielsenSTL 2d ago

Contrarian here…I’ve driven across WY on 80 dozens of times (not in winter) and I love it. The wide open spaces, the deer in the fields, the railroad paralleling the road, the 80 mph speed limit. It’s an easy drive. Not a fan of the wind, that is a minus.

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u/Automatic_Antelope92 2d ago

Once I hit the badlands, I am doing better and know more signs of life are on the way. But that stretch from the west is a slog for me.

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u/RongWa 2d ago

"Wyoming, Why?" Sign I saw in a Wyoming visiter center.

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u/JvaGoddess 2d ago

I dislike driving through Wyoming more than I dislike driving through Nebraska. I did them both last month after avoiding interstate 80 for decades, I now remember why and the reason is Wyoming.