Typically if I'm visiting my family the drive is about 2.5 hrs. On some public holidays, Christmas included, that can be 3 or 3.5 hrs.
Today I cancelled my trip after being stuck in traffic 20 minutes with an estimate of 4.5 hrs total for the trip. It's insane. I remember similar times from other years too. Only this time with this petrol situation I'm just not doing it.
I don't understand why??? Is this the only long weekend of the year? What gets into people's minds?
Only 20 mins? I got stopped in 2 hours after a pile up...
I think this year has been hard on people, and are using this time as a way to say "well we probably won't be able to drive soon, so let's do a small trip this one last time.
It's also an easy 4 day long weekend if you extend to Monday and start of school holidays too! The powers combined and everything is nuts.
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