"Eisboch" wrote in message
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"Boater" wrote in message
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Eisboch wrote:
"Boater" wrote in message
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I rarely drive long distances in a car...as, for example, from Maryland
to Florida. I have better things to do with my time than waste two days
on the interstate.


Ah, but with a BMW you could make that trip in about 16 hours.

Eisboch


I've made it in 12. But I don't like doing it that way, and neither does
my wife. There are a few places way off the highway we stop for meals,
and a few motels we've come to rely on over the years.

We drive down to Florida about once every other year and fly the rest of
the time. We stop about halfway and then get an early start the next
morning.

Spending 12-16 hours driving a car...that was fun when I was in my early
20's...not now.

Once again, I can drive to BWI Airport in under an hour, waste an hour at
the airport, and then get down to Florida in two hours. That's four hours
versus 12-16 hours. There's nothing about driving the distance that
competes with that.

To me, my time is valuable. Wasting it driving south on the ugly,
dangerous Interstate is a waste of my time.

To each his own.



You obviously also have faith and trust in the airlines. I don't.

Eisboch


Funniest story about airline delays. When youngest graduated university, we
all stayed at a hotel next to LAX. We left daughter and went to airport.
She slept in. It is a 1 hr 15 minute flight to San Jose Airport. We turn
in rental car, go checkin and then find out the flight is delayed. We
finally leave to SJO, get my car at work, 10 minutes from the airport via
taxi, and drive home 35 minutes. Daughter is pulling up the street as to
the house as we turn corner above house. is a 5.5 hour drive from LAX to my
house. So the 3 hours of airplane trip took longer than sleeping in and
driving 5.5 hours. And this was before 9/11.