Traveling home for the holidays just got cheaper
- 11/18/2008 12:53 AM CST
With gas prices south of $2 and continuing to dip, it’s time to fuel up the family wagon and head to Grandma’s, right?
With gas prices south of $2 and continuing to dip, it’s time to fuel up the family wagon and head to Grandma’s, right?
GREAT SMOKY MOUNTAINS NATIONAL PARK | Layered folds of dusky purple mountain peaks stretch to the horizon, pockets of blue haze softly settling among the ridges. Their outline was bolder and fiercer eons ago when these mountains were younger. But the sharp, angry rock has weathered over the past several hundred million years, yielding the more genial, gently rounded profile it has today.
So the free pretzels are going away. There’s one more thing to pack in my bag — you know, the one I’ll be carrying aboard the plane because it’s going to cost me more to check it.
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