How do you like to travel survey?

[Metalhead]

Do you like getting to your destination on a plane, or do you prefer a road trip, a boat cruise, or a train?

 

[Misery]

My car, me driving.

Most other methods just give me anxiety.

It occurs to me suddenly though that I dont think I've ever been on a train.

 

[Judge]

It depends on the urgency of such a trip. The first thing that unfortunately came to mind was traveling exclusively for business purposes. When the need to get from one place to another is paramount via air travel.

But then I also think of being able to travel at my own leisure, in which I have fond memories of traveling by train. When there was no urgency regarding time.

One really cool thing is to be able to fly over the state of Michigan or nearby, at such an altitude that you can see the shape of the whole state and realize how accurate maps are. Or flying the width of the entire state of Pennsylvania and seeing so many different aspects of topography.

Yet I also enjoyed going through the "hind end" of Philadelphia to Washington DC by train. A trip not everyone can appreciate, but then for me it was like going home.

 

[Yeshuasdaughter]

 

[AuAL]

How do I like to travel? Extensively! Car, train, plane - you name it, I’ll take it. Went 800 km by train last week, then flew back. In a couple of weeks from now I will be spending a week on a tour bus in Türkiye. I’ve also travelled by troach (= coach body on all-wheel-drive truck base.) When I was younger (i.e. before osteoarthritis) I hiked hundreds of kilometres, including trekking in the Himalaya.

 

[Judge]

One thing online I've enjoyed are the YouTube presentations of people traveling all over the world by train. Vicariously very cool...and relaxing.

I also still follow Chris Lewis in his adventures in Vietnam. Seems he's welcome wherever he goes there, being fluent in any number of Vietnamese dialects that the locals continue to be amazed by.

 

[WhitewaterWoman]

 

[Au Naturel]

You forgot "on foot." And "by bicycle." There are also motorcycles.

 

[Mary Terry]

If a trip takes longer than six hours by car, I'll fly instead. After decades of flying in commercial and private jets and aircraft for work, I still prefer to get to my destination as fast as possible.

Trains can be fun, too. I've always enjoyed the train ride from NYC up the Hudson River valley, and both the Sunset Limited across the southern USA and the City of New Orleans train trip to Chicago. I once traveled thousands of miles on the Mexican train from the US border to Mexico City and flew back to the US.

 

[Aspychata]

l wish l could bike everywhere. But driving is quite nice. Airplane trips used to be fun until we were treated like cattle by the airlines. I do enjoy traveling by limo. Train travel is very relaxing. I have used subways in Frisco, LA, and London. Very convenient, however Los Angeles subways are no longer safe to travel on.

 

[WhitewaterWoman]

If a trip takes longer than six hours by car, I'll fly instead. After decades of flying in commercial and private jets and aircraft for work, I still prefer to get to my destination as fast as possible.

Trains can be fun, too. I've always enjoyed the train ride from NYC up the Hudson River valley, and both the Sunset Limited across the southern USA and the City of New Orleans train trip to Chicago. I once traveled thousands of miles on the Mexican train from the US border to Mexico City and flew back to the US.

I've ridden that train and it travels through beautiful countryside.

 

[Tony Ramirez]

Since I never been on a plane in over 20 years only once in my life with my first church ever and I have to hear every tom dick and harry every day of my pathetic life online and in person talk about how they flown here and there or how they are going to fly here and there and watching them in social media I now have a terrible fear of flying because I never ever have a chance to ever board a plane. It sounds stupid but it's true. I want to fly somewhere so bad but I am never invited to everyone says it's too expensive yet I hear that BS but yet they literally fly every month no kidding. I always ride by car to crappy PTSD induced location by car with my family who are miserable but never again to the same crapholes I went every summer while everyone else I knew jet set it to exotic places.

I never in my life experience a real vacation by plane or really any other means of transportation which I now have in my mind the plane will crash mid flight if I am on it yes 1 on in 54 million odds will be me and I will never experience a fun place with friends ever.

Sorry to answer the question I would want to travel by plane why to end my aviophobia and to go someplace far away to have a vacation knowing I won't die.

 

[honeytoast]

 

[Forest Cat]

I like those big fancy RV's. It's like driving around in an apartment. You have everything you need in there and you can park your apartment anywhere. And the new ones are super comfortable to drive, handles well. Difficult to do donuts with them though.

 

[Streetwise]

l wish l could bike everywhere. But driving is quite nice. Airplane trips used to be fun until we were treated like cattle by the airlines. I do enjoy traveling by limo. Train travel is very relaxing. I have used subways in Frisco, LA, and London. Very convenient, however Los Angeles subways are no longer safe to travel on.

neither is the knife capital of Britain

 

[Princess Viola]

If we're talking about a long trip where I wouldn't have to be at my destination at a specific time, I would choose to take the train.

Like sure, Amtrak can be slow and face delays because almost all rail in this country is owned by the freight companies who give priority to freight trains over passenger rail so you should always expect to end up being at least a few hours late to your destination but you get to see the country and can basically just relax. Not gonna end up stuck in traffic, don't need to stop to get gas, don't need to find a motel to sleep in for the night and a place to eat, etc.

 

[Shevek]

To enjoy the journey and feel present as soon as I arrive, I prefer a bicycle. Walking & riding home after a flight was a great way to get grounded again. Now, I am very reluctant to burn fuel, but when I must, I use a very light, old car that gets superb mileage, and is also fitted out with a bed and a kitchen, so I don't have to try to eat and sleep in strange places. I used to do some epic cross-country car stuff. I traversed Oregon five times before seeing it in daylight.
My last time on Amtrak, I had a mouse sharing my crumbs.

 

[Gerald Wilgus]

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I have especially enjoyed paddling on Western Rivers, though it is always nice on the much gentler local ones. And then, there is the big lake. Here is my spouse (L) and I (R) paddling along the slope of the Sleeping Bear Dunes as we head into the Manitou Passage. I am paddling a Greenland style kayak I built, 17.5 feet, 36 lbs.

 

[Shevek]

"Thinking is the best way to travel"
- The Moody Blues

 

[Gerald Wilgus]

Once my BIL and I took a motorcycle trip, I rode down to Indianapolis, rode to Washington DC to enjoy the mall and then down to Skyline Drive and the Blue Ridge Parkway. South of the Smoky Mountains National Park we rode the Tail of the Dragon and did not end up on the Tree of Shame. First my BIL on the Parkway then, me on the Dragon.