Traveling For The Holidays
Traveling for Thanksgiving is something I have never had to do. I lived in South Carolina for 2 holiday seasons but it was just a 3-hour drive home and I was in sales so I always left earlier than everyone else. What type of challenges does everyone go through to get home for the holidays?
Are there peeps out there that will only travel home for one holiday because it is too long of a trip? I always find it interesting to hear travel stories of those that have to travel for the holidays and also what they have to go through with kids. Give me your stories…I want to hear them!
posted by volsfan at 10:13 AM
12 Comments:
Thanks T! Are both places a 3 hour drive?
11:45 AM
*waves to Doc*
Hiya!!! Welcome to our new crack :)
1:13 PM
Being from Canada, DH and I don't celebrate the American Thanksgiving. Actually, we don't even celebrate the Canadian one LOL. We do enjoy the time off though and just hang out at home. Mind you, a few years ago, we were invited to our friends up in VA for Thanksgiving. It was approx. 10 hrs of driving. That was our first experience of Thanksgiving weekend travel on the roads. NEVER AGAIN! I think it took us 15 hours to get back home LOL. Same thing with Thanksgiving weekend shopping. We did it once. NEVER AGAIN!
As far as Xmas holidays go, we have tried to go back home to Canada every other year but it doesn't always work out. We sort of alternate. If we don't make it for Xmas, then we'll go for the summer the following year. Up until last year, my two step-sons would come to Atlanta for Xmas. Now that they are 18 & 19, they don't want to do that anymore so last year we went back home to Montreal and Ottawa, then on to Calgary to visit the step-sons. I hated it. I hate the cold and snow and travel etc. etc. etc.
This year we will only go to Calgary to spend a few days with the boys. That's enough for me.
Bah Humbug!
1:36 PM
Hi Doc! No travel plans for me this year, just popping in to say hi and *samooch*
2:06 PM
Before my sister moved to Tenessee (your neck of the woods Vols!), we used to go to her house (about 20 minutes away) for Thanksgiving and then she'd come to me for Xmas. Occasionally, I'll drive from NJ to Ohio to see my other sister. Last year, I flew out there for New Years.
The last several years, I've been cooking at home for T-day & Xmas. My mom (who lives in a condo and won't cook) and my bro, his fiance & her son (who live in an apartment) come over here. We used to like visiting others when the kids were younger and much more "transportable", but my kids are much happier at home on the actual holidays. Now if we travel, it's usually between Xmas & New Years.
3:57 PM
I love Thanksgiving! We may travel a couple hours, but that's it.
When I was akid, we used to go from house-to-house on Christmas since my parents were divorced. I always felt like getting a t-shirt made that said MTW - Christmas World Tour, 1975 or something like that.
6:31 PM
MTW, speaking of T-shirts...have you been to tshirthell.com lately? The site isn't PG-13 but the shirts are absofreakinlutely hilarious.
8:18 PM
I flew back to Alabama one year for Thanksgiving. It was right after my Grandfather had died, I was about 19 years old and I was going back alone. My folks and brother stayed here. My Mother booked my flights and at the time I had a pretty good fear of flying. She tried to save money so she booked a flight with two stops. One in Minnesota where they were having a blizzard and had to de ice my plane and the other in Dallas where they were having some sort of big major storm.
That did not make me want to travel east or south during thanksgiving again.
This year? Safe at home in California.
9:16 PM
My family consists of me and my brother. That's it. It's my DH's fam that causes the melee.
4 turkey dinners and 5 Christmas's later.
ugh. Holiday season for us = driving all over the state of Michigan.
8:33 AM
For Thanksgiving, we stay around here. DH's grandparents come down from PA to his Mom's house and we spend Thanksgiving there. My Dad and I have been celebrating Thanksgiving with my in-laws since I was 17.
Christmas is the more hectic travel time, but mostly because we have to go up north. This year, we'll probably go to DH's grandparents the weekend before Christmas (we get off work on Dec. 16 - sometime's it's awesome to work in a school system!) and after spending the weekend with them, I think we're going to head up to my Mom's in MA. Most likely we'll head home the Thursday before Christmas, because we always have Christmas at our place with my Dad and DH's Mom. Obviously, traffic will be doubly insane the Friday and Saturday before Christmas and I have to be home to get things cooking, so it will be a Thursday departure.
9:37 AM
It gets more difficult every year, actually. This year we will be doing Christmas at Dad's on the 17th, with his GF's family, too. We are invited to Mom's on Christmas Day, but with luck, I'll get the flu again and be stuck in bed all day, like I was 2 years ago, when we were supposed to go to Mom's. Heh.
We'll go to DH's sister's on Boxing Day (Dec 26), as we have for the last 15 years.
I'm not sure what we're going to do on Christmas Eve, though. That was always the day to visit Nana. She passed on earlier this year. It was always so much fun. She loved Christmas. Loved having everyone over. You should have seen us all packed into her room at the rest home for the last few years. You could hear us down the street, I bet...we're really loud, as a family. Rats.
1:34 PM
Normally, I travel to Arkansas for both Thanksgiving and Christmas. It's around a 5 1/2 - 6 hour drive one way. Christmas travel is always hairy, because that's when the ice storms usually hit Arkansas. So I have to keep my eye on the weather reports, and make sure I don't get stuck down there.
12:05 AM
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