spartan7886
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Post by spartan7886 on Aug 10, 2017 7:44:47 GMT -5
We drove 9 hours with 3 small kids all the time. This was pre DVD players in the car. Best thing was to leave early afternoon and drive until midnight. If you want discount tickets, you have to deal with the discount service, lack of flights, etc. if they have limited flights and there is bad weather, they will likely just delay not cancel, because they need the plane for return flight. This was how my parents did it when we were young. Ten hours to Memphis every Christmas and 11 to Florida every summer.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 10, 2017 8:12:57 GMT -5
Yeah, but this is 20 hours. Two long days of driving there, then two long days driving back. Kind of cuts into the 9 days off.
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Tennesseer
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Post by Tennesseer on Aug 10, 2017 8:39:56 GMT -5
We drove 9 hours with 3 small kids all the time. This was pre DVD players in the car. Best thing was to leave early afternoon and drive until midnight. If you want discount tickets, you have to deal with the discount service, lack of flights, etc. if they have limited flights and there is bad weather, they will likely just delay not cancel, because they need the plane for return flight. This was how my parents did it when we were young. Ten hours to Memphis every Christmas and 11 to Florida every summer. Ditto too. For us in the 1950s, driving from Massachusetts to Florida for two weeks in the winter, we left around dinner time so that traveling through the northeast corridor was done after evening commute time especially around the D.C. area. Just the parents driving. Also interesting that south of D.C., the interstate system ended and it was down to two lane highways for most of the way until we reached our Florida destination around 4 P.M.
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Post by alabamagal on Aug 10, 2017 10:03:16 GMT -5
This was how my parents did it when we were young. Ten hours to Memphis every Christmas and 11 to Florida every summer. Ditto too. For us in the 1950s, driving from Massachusetts to Florida for two weeks in the winter, we left around dinner time so that traveling through the northeast corridor was done after evening commute time especially around the D.C. area. Just the parents driving. Also interesting that south of D.C., the interstate system ended and it was down to two lane highways for most of the way until we reached our Florida destination around 4 P.M. Also, we didn't deprive our kids, but less liquid in is less bathroom stops.
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Post by andi9899 on Aug 10, 2017 10:17:26 GMT -5
I would drive. How far are you from Ft Myers? I would rather stab myself in the eye with a fork than drive from Minneapolis to Fort Myers with a car full of kids. I drove with the girls 30 hours from KC to central Mexico when they were 2 and 4. I thought i would kill either them or their dad. I never did it again. Not even to STL which is only 4 hours away.
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Post by Tennesseer on Aug 10, 2017 10:27:19 GMT -5
Ditto too. For us in the 1950s, driving from Massachusetts to Florida for two weeks in the winter, we left around dinner time so that traveling through the northeast corridor was done after evening commute time especially around the D.C. area. Just the parents driving. Also interesting that south of D.C., the interstate system ended and it was down to two lane highways for most of the way until we reached our Florida destination around 4 P.M. Also, we didn't deprive our kids, but less liquid in is less bathroom stops. I think our first pit stop heading south was Pedro's SOUTH of the BORDER.
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