Had to go to Denver area last week for work. Returned home Friday night, and judging by the number of families on the fight, college students at the airport, etc, I'd say lots. Past road trips between Houston and Dallas (4-5 hour drive) clearly shows the demand. We've done it several times, but not in more recent times.

Probably better served just watching Planes, Trains, and Automobiles.

I like my family (even my husbands!), and we almost always travel for Thanksgiving and often Christmas. We just got back from a 10 day trip where we were with most of the grandparents a week ago so we are actually staying home for both holidays for the first time in years. We try to avoid peak days traveling, even if it means keeping kids out of school for an extra day or 2.
Based on past years though - the roads are packed as well as the airports so I'd say tons of people travel for the holidays. We are in Colorado and either drive to Las Vegas or Boise and fly to Tennessee. Tough traveling no matter which way we go.

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If 2 hours is traveling then I guess we travel.

I drive about 5 1/2 hours to be with family I do like.

Every other year we travel 4 hours to spend Thanksgiving with my wife's family. On the off years, we travel there for Christmas. To make it worse, on the years that we are there at Thanksgiving, we still end up going back near Christmas. We've been doing this for 25 years and I am getting tired of traveling on the holidays.

I told my wife that it is time to cut out the second trip there over Christmas. Either her mom can come visit us at Christmas, or we can celebrate it when we are there at Thanksgiving.

My brother and his wife will be driving 2 hours to come have turkey with us.

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I'm in O'Hare airport right now for a connecting flight to Rochester. First year in Colorado so we'll travel to my family. Next year they come to us or we get to go somewhere worth traveling to.

We will be driving 2 hours from one direction while my inlaws will be driving that time from another to meet up for the holidays. Gonna do ours on Tuesday though, so probably not a problem. I think I remember hearing that this weekend is the 2nd worst traveling one of the year??

I saw a bunch of RV and trailers out there yesterday, like us I guess it was the first day of 9 days off of school for the kids. Too bad we have this day right in the middle that screws up my 9 day surf trip/vacation I had all planned out in my head...

I know that a lot of folks are eschewing "over the hills and through the woods" ground transportation in favor of flying there. On the airlines I work with, all of them are load-factored (booked) at 100% on certain days this week and next. For the holiday season their load factors (the percentage of seats on a plane that are booked by a paying passenger) are in the high 90s on many days, especially as you get closer to Christmas week.

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When my mother was alive, we did it every year. It was a 6-1/2 to 7 hour drive, two kids in the car.

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My parents and my wife's parents live close by and we alternate where we go each year so we're not driving all over town on holidays. The last of our grandparents passed away this year so thankfully we no longer have to bring our young children to the old folks home.

But who really gets in their car and drives 5 hours just to be miserable with family they really don’t like?
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We drive 9 hours to visit family every Thanksgiving, tradition started 17 years ago. Truth be told, I like my family though. It might be different if I didn't want to be around them.

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We usually take at least one road trip annually. If we visit my parents it is about 8 hours. My wife’s side is closer to 25 hours. We used to make that trip every year, but typically fly now unless someone is staying for 2+ weeks.

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6 Hours on Tuesday. Denver to Santa Fe

Third year in a row we are flying to Hawaii on Thanksgiving day. The wife has gotten tired of it since she has to work three of those days, so this will be the last time of that. :(

But we were always driving to her family or mine for the holidays.

Found a picture of your turkey.

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I’m 90 minutes by foot if I choose to run to my MIL’s for Thanksgiving (12 miles), but this year it’ll be an 18 minute drive there instead. It’s nice not driving all over for the holidays. My dad is 90 miles away if we go there, but it’s not happening this year. Next year for Xmas will suck for travel though — 24 hours of flights/airports and half a globe away to Australia. I love the place, absolutely hate the travel.

We're driving a couple blocks to our friend's house Thursday (MA). But they are having one of their parents there, from about 10-12 hours away (Baltimore), and that parent's other daughter, from 3-4 hours away (Albany).

My in laws bought a dog this fall. My wife is allergic to dogs. Basically, we're never traveling the 12 hours to Michigan for holidays again.

I can't speak to what people that are "miserable" spending time with their family do, but my in-laws (4 hour drive) and son #2 (3 hour flight) are all traveling to my home for Thanksgiving. Daughter #1 and son #1 each have other plans for turkey day, but we'll all reconvene as a family at Christmas at mother-in-law's home.

First year of my life not living in the same state as ANY family.
I am driving, literally 5 hours, to have Thanksgiving with my sister's family. I like them a lot.
Before I moved, it was a 3-hour drive to grandma's. But again, I like her a whole lot.

2 hrs' travel (car and boat) to see my wife's family this week. Most of them I like, a few are a bit tough to handle sometimes but are basically good people.

3 hr flight and then 1.5 hr drive at Christmas time to see my family each year. Most of them I like a whole lot despite their foibles, luckily the sister-in-law that was awful is now an ex-SIL.

3 of my 4 grandparents were dead before I was born; I miss people I never even met, if that makes any sense. My mother died when I was 17, my Dad's on his way out. To me it's worth it and in fact pretty important to make time for family while you've got them, because you'll probably miss them like hell once they're gone, even if you have your rough patches with them.

14 hour drive from Oklahoma City to Cave Creek Arizona to see my in-laws. 2 little ones so will be traveling there overnight so they sleep the whole time but won't regret it one bit. 1. I love driving and 2. enjoy seeing family.

I get lots of travel, since I am 'blessed' to have lots of family kinda close to me. Plus, my son lives with his mother, so we work out holidays differently.

Thanksgiving I'll drive an hour to the Jersey shore for dinner with the in-laws, then that night, drive three hours to the Poconos to crash at my mom's, pick my son up the next morning, and have Thanksgiving part 2 with my family and my son.

Christmas, same thing... Eve with the in-laws, then the overnight drive to get my kiddo Christmas morning.

I don't mind it for Thanksgiving. In the 10 years I was in the Army, I only came home for Thanksgiving once as a surprise... so I like getting to have two now.

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We always drive down to the Denver area for Thanksgiving. It is actually a quiet, peaceful drive. All the Front Range transplants head home, the mountain roads are quiet and the weather is usually good. We don't go anywhere near an airport or onto a major interstate Thanksgiving weekend.