Hi fellow Hiveians,
Today I wanted to rant about how expensive some travel is these days!
Getting Booked
Booking travel is both a fun but stressful experience!
We aren't ones to not take vacations or trips, but instead we typically just drive around to the places that we want to go. That wasn't going to be possible this time, so we had to book flights and rental cars and shit. Man was that way more of a hassle than we remembered!
My wife and I have been traveling around for a long time, as many people who are in the millennial age generation. We don't go a lot of places that require flying for various reasons, and one of them is because of how fucking expensive the shit is! I know it's an old dude type of shit, but when we booked flights years ago it was 2-250 dollars a person. These days it's absurd how fucking expensive it is. It was about 500 dollars per person just for the god damn flight! What the fuck is that noise!?
I know that driving to places isn't the easiest, but jeebus. We spent 75$ in gas driving 1,100 miles! That is fucking pennies compared to the absurdity that flights cost. I guess you pay more because you get there a hell of a lot faster, but damn that's absolutely insane.
We are certainly glad that we don't like to fly all over the place. I don't know how people afford that shit, honestly lol. I look back to when I was a kid and I think I took maybe 3 flights in my lifetime before I was an adult. I've only taken a few since then but still. I was shocked how damn expensive that shit is.
One of the things that we also learned years ago, that seemingly doesn't apply anymore is to book flights and things like that on a Tuesday. They said that was the cheaper day for whatever reason. Sadly that's not the case anymore LOL the package we had to buy this time around ended up costing us 300$ more because we waited a few days and did it on a Tuesday instead of the Sunday that we originally looked on.
We are looking forward to the trip for sure because it serves a few purposes. One of the good ones is that it's to a place we've never been to before so we get to do some added exploration which is always fun. I would eventually like to travel to all 50 states with the fam, though some of them are likely going to be a little challenging to get to and do. It's not a bad goal though, to visit them all!
I think that's one of the most fascinating things about the United States. People don't realize how fecking big the thing is! The US fits over Europe then some, and people in some small European countries think that their country is big or something. That's an average state in the US LOL. I know it seems a little arrogant, but it's fun to see when a country like Italy is about the size of California. It really puts things into perspective!
An added bonus with the whole thing is that I got a bit of a discount through work for the rental car. We do have people that work and do a lot of travel and car rentals and stuff so thankfully we have access to discounted rentals. Let's hope that the car, because it was a sizable discount compared to a different car rental company, isn't a scam and fucks us over at the end of the day. Time will tell!
What about you, are you surprised at how ridiculously expensive travel has become for flying? Let me know in the comments what you think!
-CmplXty. Real human written content, never AI. All pictures are mine unless otherwise stated
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