I would suggest that you "allot" enough "extra time" to drive to wherever you need to go. You're going to be at the airport for about half a day, if not more, as the TSA starts giving travelers colonoscopies and subjecting more toddlers to intensive searches.
Can we just please dial back on the national panic on this shit? Oh, silly me, of course we can't, because the GOP sees getting the sheeple to bleat in fear as a legitimate political tool. And if the Feds don't project a public air of being suitably concerned, the conservative sock-puppets on Fox News and their quasi-allies at the other networks will have on-air conniption fits.
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I think I would rather have bamboo slivers hammered into my 'taint than fly these days.
Unfortunately, most of my siblings now live on the coast. I probably need to get the web cam on my laptop working.
Unfortunately, all of my relatives live 2,000 miles away. If I were to allocate time to drive, I'd have to allocate an extra week to drive there and back.
But agree on the rather have bamboo slivers hammered under my fingernails than fly commercial thing. I've done it twice over the past three months. Both times I ended up sick from the experience (literally -- those aluminum virus sausages are guaranteed to spread any disease possessed by anybody anywhere to every airline passenger).
Luckily I won't have to fly again until the end of this year. I hope!
- Badtux the Flightless Penguin (I hope!)
Gaaah. I have to fly from South Florida to eastern Washington in a few weeks. While I look forward to visiting good friends, I do not look forward to the airport ordeals.
The majik crossover point is..
1 hour at least to get to most eastern
airports due to traffic.
2 hours early so TSA doesn't make you miss the flight.
1.5 hour flight to cover maybe 400 miles. Short hop flights are slow.
45 minutes waiting for the bags if not lost.
1 hour getting to where your going in that area.
In 6 hours I can travel 300miles by car without busting a speed limit.
In 6 hours a train can cover much more than that.
No matter what most of you day is shot
to travel. You will spend it on gas,
a ticket for the train or airplane. Used to be the train or car was the way to see the USA and likely still is. I know you don't see anything from 30,000 feet and the air in the flying can will contain the cold bug from seat 3C.
Eck!
You know, you guys just don't seem to feel an appropriate level of panic yet. Are you OK?
Cujo, I doubt if you'll find to many acolytes of the GOP Fear Machine around here.
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