I missed the start of this thread, but was it that it costs too much to
travel these days ? I agree that it has gone up a lot in the past year
or two, but I think US airfares today are cheaper than they were in the
70's ( before all the cheap airlines that have since gone out of
business like People's Express et al.)
In the mid 70's it used to cost me about $500 to go round trip Boston-
LA.
I haven't paid that much in years. So although it went down to $150 and
now back up to $350, considering all of the inflation since the mid 70's
it's still cheap: especially with gas prices now. At 3000 miles one-way,
with gas at $3 per gal and 25 mpg, I would spend $720 to DRIVE r/t. So
anything less than that is a deal.
"mrtravel" wrote in message
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>B Anderson wrote:
>> But in the future, the world will be a bigger place. You will have to
>> sacrifice thousands of dollars to visit family overseas. Or, take a
>> boat trip of days weeks or even months.
>>
>
> Will the price of ship transportation get cheaper when fuel prices
> make it too expensive to fly. What about the other costs of taking off
> for weeks or months?
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