The Trials, Tribulations, And Triumphs Of Holiday Travel
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🗓️ 19 December 2024
⏱️ 33 minutes
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And that means time spent with friends, with family, and... in the car. Or a plane. Or a train. Or maybe even by boat.
But one thing's for sure. America will be on the move here soon if it's not already.
Where are we going, what's waiting for us when we get there, and why is it so difficult sometimes to get where we need to go at the end of another year?
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| 0:00.0 | This is Eric Glass. |
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| 0:32.1 | What's the flight situation? |
| 0:33.7 | Simple. |
| 0:35.0 | There's no way on earth we're going to get out of here tonight. |
| 0:39.1 | We'd have more luck playing pickup sticks with our butt cheeks than we will get in a flight out of here before daybreak. |
| 0:43.0 | I guess we'll find out soon enough. Yeah, but by the time the airline cancels this flight, |
| 0:47.2 | which they will sooner or later. You'd have more of a chance to find a three-legged ballerina than you would a hotel room. That iconic scene from the 1987 film Planes, Trains, and Automobiles, |
| 0:58.0 | which I think belongs in any holiday movie canon, can sum up the well hell that holiday travel can be. |
| 1:04.0 | So let's run down the list of what stresses you out. |
| 1:07.5 | Is it airport crowds? |
| 1:08.8 | How about packing and then remembering you forgot something and then |
| 1:12.3 | unpacking? Or maybe unlike me, the holidays are your favorite time of year to travel. |
| 1:17.0 | AAA estimates more than 119 million Americans will travel somewhere more than 50 miles between |
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