Christmas time traveling

SpeakEasy wrote:

DiskDoctr wrote:
Christmas time traveling?

Are you going back to July 3, 1985?



:C

You can now get one on Amazon for only $266!

That's where I got mine next month. LOL :p

(Nice find!)

DiskDoctr wrote:
Christmas time traveling?

Are you going back to July 3, 1985?



:C

You can now get one on Amazon for only $266!

Take extra food and drinks with you. Be prepared to stay a night or two along the way.

If any problems along the way, or just traffic gets stressful, you have the option of climbing over the wall of the rat race and letting it go by while you relax ;)

2gypsies wrote:
We were driving to daughter's home and the only place open for our Christmas dinner was a Waffle House!

LOL X2 (but we were going for other family reasons.)

Sent a picture/text to the daughter number 1 showing Mom and me having our Christmas meal. She said for a Christmas gift she was getting us shirts that said "We have family, but we choose to live like this." :B

To the OP: your fears will hold you back and consume energy for something that may never happen.

Since it is you that is deciding to travel on a holiday you should be prepared for a longer wait for service and the possibility of a premium charge. If you are ok with that then proceed on. I would have no reservations about traveling on a holiday.

I have a flat tire and searched for repair yesterday on thanksgiving. I found numerous repair/towing companies advertised for 24 hour service including all holidays.

A handful of years ago, we were traveling on December 23rd, traveling north on I-95. We just passed Dunn, NC around 5 pm and the motor started really knocking. We limped to the next exit and found a hotel, booked a car rental and called around looking for a place to have the van towed to. We were fortunate to find a mechanic open on Christmas Eve. AAA got a tow truck out to us pretty quick, but it was early in the day.

We got pretty lucky that we found someone open. This year Christmas Eve is on a Sunday, so that's a double whammy for you. Traffic on the 26th will be bad, at least on I-95. Being flexible will be helpful. If you break down on the 24th or 25th, you will probably be able to find a tow, but you may have to leave it in a mechanic's lot until the 26th.

-Michael

We have traveled (from Indiana to Florida) and (from Indiana to South Carolina) over Christmas week for the last several years. We return home on New Years day. We've never had a break down, but we've never had problems find a motel (for the first leg of Florida trips), or a campground (for the first leg of our South Carolina trips). Once you get into Kentucky and Tennessee, campgrounds are open.

Along the way, the roads are jam packed with travelers, truck drivers, and RV transporters driving South. We've traveled on Christmas Day and restaurants, gas stations, grocery stores are open, pretty much every where.

Businesses (like gas stations, service stations, repair shops) make an effort to remain open on the holidays, because they know travelers are out there. They may charge more, but many of them pay their employees more on the holidays to be there for (us) too. They are forfeiting their holiday so we can enjoy ours.

Travel, don't worry about breakdowns. If it happens, just use your head.

See you on the road. FYI, we are leaving for Santee State Park, South Carolina on Dec 23. We'll stop somewhere near Knoxville, TN Saturday night and then on to Santee Sunday. This will make about 2 - six hour drive days for us. Enough we can enjoy things along the way!

We were driving to daughter's home and the only place open for our Christmas dinner was a Waffle House!

I remember when I worked, if I worked on Christmas Day I was paid double time and three quarters. Are you OK with paying that? If you are, there might be someone that could help you for 200 to 300 dollars an hour.