Should You Take the RV or Fly?

All right, let's get to today's conversation.

All right.

Title of this episode, RV or Fly? And as I said, we had a family event this past weekend.

We had a family wedding in Atlanta this past weekend.

Our grandson, Matthew, was married to his beautiful bride, Taylor.

I got the privilege of actually performing the ceremony.

It was down in Fayetteville, Georgia, south of, uh, Atlanta.

And for about two weeks before we left, Jennifer and I had the same discussion over and over.

Now, it wasn't an argument.

It was a discussion.

Well, maybe a debate.

It was a debate.

[laughs]

Do we take the motor home or do we fly down and get a hotel?

It's about 700 miles each way, so roughly 11 hours behind the wheel if we left from our home here in southwest Michigan.

Two hours in the air.

Now, on paper, that looks like an easy call.

It is not.

We flew, and here's the first thing we learned.

A two-hour flight is not a two-hour trip.

Door to door, it was eight hours.

On a trip this length, the airplane brought us about three hours, not nine.

And I think the thing that actually settled it was something neither of us thought to check until almost the last minute.

So let's walk through the whole decision, and listen up.

This applies to you, too.

All right, let's get to today's conversation.

All right.

Title of this episode, RV or Fly? And as I said, we had a family event this past weekend.

We had a family wedding in Atlanta this past weekend.

Our grandson, Matthew, was married to his beautiful bride, Taylor.

I got the privilege of actually performing the ceremony.

It was down in Fayetteville, Georgia, south of, uh, Atlanta.

And for about two weeks before we left, Jennifer and I had the same discussion over and over.

Now, it wasn't an argument.

It was a discussion.

Well, maybe a debate.

It was a debate.

[laughs]

Do we take the motor home or do we fly down and get a hotel?

It's about 700 miles each way, so roughly 11 hours behind the wheel if we left from our home here in southwest Michigan.

Two hours in the air.

Now, on paper, that looks like an easy call.

It is not.

We flew, and here's the first thing we learned.

A two-hour flight is not a two-hour trip.

Door to door, it was eight hours.

On a trip this length, the airplane brought us about three hours, not nine.

And I think the thing that actually settled it was something neither of us thought to check until almost the last minute.

So let's walk through the whole decision, and listen up.

This applies to you, too.