Transportation Woes
The other day, Emily started shopping for plane tickets for our yearly Christmas trip home. We were both shocked to find out just how limited our options were going to be this year. It seems that neither of the only two carriers that make direct runs between Kansas City and anywhere in Florida will be available: ExpressJet appears to be going under, and Midwest Airlines is trimming its routes into Florida to seasonal travel, and only out of its Milwaukee hub. For the remaining carriers, we're looking at paying somewhere around twice as much per ticket as last year (when we had a direct flight...not to mention warm cookies en route). We've even looked into Amtrak for the trip, since we'd had such a great experience traveling between Washington, D.C. and Baltimore earlier this summer. However, the train offered no relief with its 36-hour trip duration and stops in Washington and Chicago along the way. Six days spent on a train (for the round trip) is just too much to cut out of our already limited vacation ...
Posted on July 23, 2008 12:18:13 AM EDT
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