Southwest disaster
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KidSilverhair
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Also Southwest fares are no longer exactly “cheap.” They used to have a big fare advantage over the traditional airlines - nowadays their fares aren’t much different and the only advantage is the two free bags. I just priced a DSM-OAK trip for next April on Southwest, and their fares were basically the same as flying United from CID to SFO. That’s not a “budget” airline.
For personal flights I go for the cheapest airline and Southwest rarely makes the cut. I do fly southwest almost exclusively for work and very few complaints.
Getting ready to drive from Denver to Des Moines this morning, no brainer to drive for this family of 4.
RFID is currently in use in a few airlines including delta, no power needed. Ski lift tickets operate the same way now, zip your pass into your arm pocket and wave it by a RFID detector..pretty slick.
Probably make the kid drive most of NE so I can nap.
Scenic viewpoint in Nebraska along I-80 lol
I did stop there one time because I had to pee so badly so I stopped and ran behind that wall
As long as this thread has gone off-tangent a bit I will take the opportunity to defend Nebraska here.
I'm not going to be silly and suggest that it's a scenic state to drive through, but I would much rather drive through Nebraska than Kansas. Kansas was simply agonizing for me when I moved from Florida to Colorado.
I don't find Nebraska as awful as some people make it seem. I also drove from Denver to Topeka one time and that was really boring once you left Denver on I-70
One of kids lived in Wichita, you go miles without seeing even any houses.
Never seem to be sufficient places to stop in Nebraska when traveling with kids. But do have a nice picture of them playing football at a rest area there.
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Who wants to buy a ranch?
Or if you have a big family like we do (four kids). Even with high gas prices, it ends up being cheaper to road trip from WA to IA than to fly.
It's about $1100 in gas and hotels to do 4000 miles round trip over 6 days. That's assuming 28mpg at $4 average gas price and $150/night hotel. There is some food in there too.
6 plane tickets from Seattle to DSM is going to be at least $1200, and then we have to rent a minivan or passenger van once we arrive. We could possibly save a little on flights by going CHI/MPLS/KC, but then we're also probably adding a hotel stay the night before the return flight. We also have a couple hundred bucks in airport parking.
So for us, it takes high gas prices and very cheap flights for flying to come close to breaking even.
the problem with Nebraska is that I-80 follows the Platte River valley all the way across..... flat and boring.
best parts of nebraska are far from the interstate
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Who wants to buy a ranch?
20k acres there = 200 cow calf pairs.
That’s a tough one, I put a monetary value on days off not driving all day too though.
This makes sense. The only counter point may be: how much is it worth to avoid 4 extra travel days with 4 kids? I took a 6-hour trip with my 3 over the summer and strongly considered abandoning one/all of them at various points.
CycloneErik
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Longer drives are OK if it's through areas with lower populations or less populated.
I'm not sure if you could pay me to drive down though the east or SE USA vs west of the Mississippi.
I'm not sure if you could pay me to drive down though the east or SE USA vs west of the Mississippi.
