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December 16, 2005

Hassle-Free Holiday Travel from Fodor’s

Filed under: Travel — Laura Moncur @ 5:00 am

Here are some tips from Fodor’s Travel to make things a little less worrisome during holiday travel. Strangely, all of these tips have to do with airports and making the security checks easier.

Travel on the cheap usually means avoiding air travel altogether. It’s not that I hate to fly. I just find that I can drive to a lot of places for a lot cheaper, especially when you calculate the flight AND rental car. Plus, when I drive, I get to see all of those interesting places in-between my home and the destination. I don’t really get to experience that in a plane.

I was never old enough to see the commercials when they came out, yet I still adhere to the practice:

“See the U.S.A. in your Chevrolet!”

Substitute Volkswagen Beetle for Chevrolet and you’ve pretty much got my travel life covered. If you really want to avoid the hassle of holiday travel, give yourself a couple extra days and drive home instead of flying. Then you can see all the sites in-between.

Plus, it’s usually cheaper…

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