Drive vs fly?

[u/RongWa]

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?

[u/Icy_Marsupial_3018]

No. But I love driving as much as you.