It’s getting closer. We are almost a month away. For some of us, it is less than a month away that we will be leaving to make our way out there.
I realize that things unfortunately are getting a bit “iffy” due to the pipeline and the price of gas increasing. I get the idea from past discussions that some of you have RV’s and old trucks that probably guzzle gas.
Hopefully, most of us can still make it. Realistically, things can change so fast. We do not know what we will be hit with next.
So meeting at a restaurant for a lingering meal seems like the best option.
If the state of the world takes a dramatic turn for the better in the next couple of weeks and someone wants attend to this and make last minute plans, I can tell you that I have at many times in my life made last minute travel plans and used Hotwire, Priceline, Travelocity, etc. to book package deals to places (mostly back East) consisting of airfare, hotel, and rental car. It turns out, the prices were perhaps only a hundred bucks or so higher at times than if I had driven my own car and stayed at a hotel.
I never had a bad experience with the flights, car rental, or hotel. The closest I came to a bad experience was having a car rental place full of incompetents not be able to process me out of the airport for over an hour after the flight landed. But all the other people who rented the car by booking directly on the rental agency’s website had the same problem.
One the other hands, there were a couple times I was given a free upgrade because the car I had booked was not available.
The thing to consider is once you book a deal this way it is a done deal. You can’t undo it. Once you click “Accept,” you have reached the point of no return.