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Because it hurts less than having a tooth pulled.
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For long distances I’m going with plane.
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Even though air travel isn’t half as much fun as it used to be.
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It’s odd how much I miss those rubber chicken dinners now that all you get is a packet of dry as toast cookies.
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But while the views out the window can be spectacular, I do prefer driving when it comes to setting your own schedule and stopping at will for local points of interest. Some of the best things we’ve found and seen have been well off the beaten path.
Cruise ships? Never. Floating germ factories crammed full of people with whom I don’t want to converse no less vacation.
Trains? Like them for day trips but no cramped overnight bunks and minuscule bathrooms for this chicka.
How about you?
What’s your preferred method of travel…
River's world..... 
Being that our vacations are usually no more than 3-4 days. We travel by car. I have never traveled by train/ship or plane. I have traveled by bus though as well. One of these days we are headed to the U.K.
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Never? Ever?
Wow.
Rail is fun. Take a day trip sometime…
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Never Ever and I am 53
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You’ve still got time.
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I know
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Ooh. I love this one. The answer, of course, is teleportation, but since that isn’t one of the answer choices, then my answer is similar to yours: it depends. Overseas or for very long and boring overland travel, airplanes suck but also rule. For long yet scenic overland journeys, I love me a good road trip. Long boat trips sound nauseating, and we are of the same mind regarding cruise ships: no way, no how. Trains is where we differ, or at least potentially differ. Pretty soon I’m releasing my post about what we have planned for our Australia trip, and I actually thought of you when I wrote the part about our 4-day, 3-night train journey across the continent. I predict it will be great, but I figured you’d hate it. 🙂 Time will tell if I end up agreeing with you or not.
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I’m afraid I’m just not one for tight living quarters and forced cohabitation with strangers. But Australia is vast country so I can see the rail appeal.
Maybe.
😉
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Having only started to travel for work, I’d say by plane. But that, as you said, it probably was nicer before. Because on the last couple of flights I’ve had, I was manifesting homicidal tendencies as other passengers were getting on my nerves. I’d rather travel the way Dr. Who does, in a Tartis…….alone, and it’s much bigger on the inside.
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Agree. I’m totally getting a Tardis when they come on the market..
Did you know it stands for Time and Relative Dimension in Space?
😉
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I did, I am as I love Dr. Who!!!
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They all have their pluses but only first class or luxury class please!
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Private jet. I could get used to that..
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Hitchhiking. You don’t have to buy a ticket and somebody else is paying for the gas.
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Looking back I can’t believe the amount of hitchhiking I did in the late 70’s as a teenager. Today? No way!
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Did you really? I was just being a smartass, lol.
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Oh, we did. All the time…
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Train … for sure! But for long distances … a private room is a must.
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Back in the before times I liked to fly, but now I hear nothing good about it so I suppose I prefer traveling by car. *sigh*
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I don’t know what’s funnier, Mark’s comment or your response to it. 🤣
I do like flying, I just don’t flying with other people. 🤣
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I’m with you on cruise ships…. Let me rephrase that: I’m with you on “Never” cruise ships. I’ve haven’t been on a plane in decades (or on a train in even longer), and based on what I hear about air travel now: NEVER AGAIN (even long distances, if driving there is possible). My last long trip was from Ohio to Alaska with a friend (though I did most of the driving) — there’s so much to stop and see along the way there (and a different way back) that I would have missed by air.
You didn’t mention other modes of travel, such as by mule train, hitchhiking, or being shot out of a cannon, but I’ll leave any such recommendations to those who have lived to tell about their experience.
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Being shot out of a cannon is very hard on the hairdo… and the mules are union now. Too many hay breaks to be efficient.
😉
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After writing my previous comment, I see that you’ve done some hitchhiking (and apparently lived to tell the tale), but I don’t expect you’ve ever been shot out of a cannon, and as for travel by mule train, even I am not old enough to have done that. 😀
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You would be correct in that assumption.
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The only to travel is in your personal jet. No huge tributes to some politician echoing footsteps and constant humahumahuma. No worrying about getting from the car park 30 miles north of the airport in a beat up old van with a crack addict driver. No minimum wage cop wannabe’s at the check-in. No reverberating announcements over the PA system.
Just a nice warm welcome from my private stew as I board in the relative anonymity of the FBO’s tarmac. Yep.
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Well, yes. I think this goes without saying…
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I guess that depends on where I am going and how much time I have to get there.
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Since air travel is one of the world’s biggest polluters, I will never fly anywhere ever again! Well, not physically anyway. ASTRAL TRAVEL is the best way for me. No pollution. No cost.
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Not sure. I’ve only flown a couple times. Most of my traveling has been done on wheels…with me behind the wheel.
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