Letters to the Editor
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If you really think about Thanksgiving Dinner
There are 365 days in a year. One day is Thanksgiving and the other is Christmas and, on those two days, otherwise sensible and thrifty (I hope) people do something monumentally stupid. They travel by air to eat. Think about it, its like a mass hallucination or hysteria, where perfectly normal people feel compelled to spend a couple of hundred to several thousand dollars to travel in the worst cold weather, where they need piles of clothing in their luggage, at the same time as everyone else, so they can eat?
A smart family (and I know a few) have their holidays and reunions during nice weather, when they can rent some cabins, let the kids run around barefoot in the grass, and all sit down at a picnic table, where ants and birds can do cleanup instead of harried grandmothers.
I gave up on winter travel years ago. I learned to travel to visit family at other times when the airports aren't batshit crazy, the weather is nice, and my luggage is light. Every place is so much nicer in the spring and summer. Winter is for holing up at home with your pets, especially since all the pet sitters are booked solid by people who think that a turkey dinner is worth all that money and aggravation.