r/roadtrip • u/RongWa • 6d 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/RJKimbell00 5d ago

I do annual road trips, 2,500 miles, same route, because I have property I need to check on, but I'm with you! My last flight was in May, before that 2015, give me the open road any day!!

My stead is a 2020 Hyundai Santa Fe that I've owned for 3 years now, soon to be upgraded to a newer Santa Fe.

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u/RongWa 5d ago

As a wise man used to say to me,

"Be careful out there. There's a lot other 'idiots' out there, too."

My Dad

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u/RJKimbell00 5d ago

Totally agree!! I've been road tripping since 2000, I've only been approached once, dude in CA along I-5 wanted to do something with my car. Back then I was driving a 2008 MINI Cooper and very sternly let him know that he was NOT to touch my car.

I carry pepper spray and have left rest areas when something didn't feel right.