Traveling over the Holidays in a Rough Economy

The Holidays are always a big rush. If you're like me and have family across the U.S. you spend most of the Holiday season getting around to see everyone. With the grandparents in Ohio and Aunts and Uncles and Cousins in Seattle getting from place to place proves challenging while trying to find a little time at home and getting homework done..ugh! We always spend most of the Holidays making our way to see family which usually involved a couple plane rides and a few hours in the car(s). This year has been alittle more stressful because of the hard economic times. It makes most sense to me since we were traveling East to Ohio that we fly that direction, apparently this is not the best way to go so we flew from Spokane, WA to Seattle Wa to Denver CO to Chicago IL to Cleveland OH, that was probably the worst ever! On the way back we flew from Cleveland OH to Minneapolis, Saint Paul to Seattle, WA to Spokane, WA, at least on the way back it was more of a direct route. I do understand that with the rough economy less planes means less direct flights, but it was still a very long day. While in the Seattle Airport (Seatac) I was able to catch up on most of the my homework because Google is giving Seatac free Wifi until January 15th as a Christmas Present which kind of made the trip more worth while, I guess that some hearts are still generous even when things get rough.