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BQ, if you had a hideous experience flying during Christmas, you might want to check out this thread: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1310302/posts?page=37

The poster of the thread thinks that the TSA is just fine. He's posted on other threads that he doesn't mind the pat downs.

I didn't fly anywhere this year. In fact, I've gotten to where I'd rather have a root canal than fly during the Christmas holidays (or Thanksgiving, for that matter). TSA doesn't have anything to do with it. Often, the weather is bad, and I've had to contend with delayed or canceled flights, missed connections, missing baggage, getting to my destination at 2 am and trying to figure out how to get home - I'd just rather stay here. I know my mother would like to have us there for Thanksgiving or Christmas, but I just can't bear to fly at that time of the year.

Last year, my hubby and I drove to Idaho for Thanksgiving, and it was quite uneventful. We didn't run into bad weather. The year before, we drove to Idaho for Christmas, and the weather was horrible. We ended up sitting on I-80 for three hours because Donner pass was closed - too many idiots couldn't drive on the *slightly* icy roads, and spun out. When we finally got to the pass, I couldn't believe there had been a problem. Sure, it was snowing lightly, and the roads were a little slick, but it really wasn't a problem. Of course, I grew up in Idaho, lived in the central Idaho mountains and SE Idaho for a good portion of my adult life and know how to drive in adverse conditions. We ended up spending the night in Winnemucca because it started snowing HARD around Lovelock and we could hardly see the freeway. I told my husband to pull into the first motel he saw when we hit the Winnemucca city limits, and he wanted to keep going. It was 7 pm by this time, and we still had another 240 miles to go. I said that we had no way of knowing how far north the storm was, and we could only travel around 30 mph due to conditions. When we started out again early the next morning, it was icy all the way to the Idaho line and well into Idaho. I'm glad we didn't continue on. Traveling in the winter can be really dicey.

My hubby has never driven in snow before (I'd driven to Reno, because of the weather), so he was getting a little freaked out.