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I love seeing my family. But I wouldn't go anywhere if I had to sleep on someone's floor. I stopped that shortly after college. There are no "family forces" powerful enough to keep me away from the hotel of my choice.
I'd stay in a hotel nearby. No explanation needed. At least you are traveling that far to be there for Thanksgiving. That's enough without them expecting you to stay in a house full of people too.
Even when there IS plenty of room for everyone and the house is nice and new and I have my own bedroom/bath, I STILL prefer to stay in a hotel than stay in someone else's house.
We have to drive from Houston to my dads home in Orange County, California to spend time with family from all over the country...... Always worth it. All of us sleep in the same house tho.
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Not to me. When mom and I get together nothing really happens outside of a hug and kiss that cant be done by talking on the phone while she is in KY and im in Virginia. Not worth spending 10 hrs on the road and $200+ in gas to do.
For all of you who say that "everyone sleeps in the same house", "we love being all together", " all the relatives enjoy sleeping at Grandma's house", etc.
Yes, sometimes it works out fine. My sister's house (just a regular upper middle class house not a mansion) had four bedrooms, two full bathrooms, and a finished basement with a queen size hide-a-bed, a second couch and a half bath. Plus a hide-a bed in the living room. Obviously, you could comfortably fit more relatives inside and everyone could be fine. There were actual beds for 12 people. Add a few air mattresses and sleeping bags for kids and you could fit a lot of people.
Now, compare that to my parent's last place. Yes, it had two bedrooms but one had a hospital bed for our disabled mother and the other a single bed for elderly father, no hide-a-bed and only one bathroom. For the multiple posters who said something like "all the relatives enjoy sleeping at Grandma's house" I strongly suggest that you would probably disagree if you needed to stay at my parent's house. Frequently we would have one adult and a couple of young grandkids stay there, sometimes even for a week or so, but any more that was totally impossible.
Last edited by germaine2626; 11-16-2013 at 11:26 AM..
Man, I always bought a plane ticket to go on Thanksgiving. It was in the opposite direction of my family. One year it was to Mexico and my drinks brought to me out on the beach
Man, I feel lucky. I'm driving over 2,000 for Thanksgiving; I'd do 4,000 if I had to.
Can we swap distances?
My son and family will be driving 1400 round trip with 3 yappy dogs!
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