Image by mgiacomazza via Flickr It is important to consider entertaining your family while travelling. Fuel costs have resulted in an increase in the price of airline tickets as it takes a lot of gas to fly a plane. This is just part of the reason for a revival in road trip style vacations. Packing your family into a car for a multi-hour trip is relatively cheap, but it’s important to keep the family entertained during the trip. Kids today engage in consistently thrilling video games and can have a hard time dealing with a long road trip. One technological … [Read more...]
Traveling the Country the Old-Fashioned Way
Image via Wikipedia A lot of people associate traveling with hopping into a plane and spending a few hours trying to nap while the engines roar all around them. However, people have been traveling, even in this country, for far longer than there have been airplanes. The old-fashioned method of travel was over the ground, across highways that have largely fallen out of favor with most people. But you can still take these highways just about anywhere. For example, take US 40. While this massive length of highway no longer totally crosses the United States, it still covers many states. … [Read more...]