When people think about traveling, they (yours truly included) always fail to forget how miserable of an experience the airport can be. Invariably, people will always say, "But it's only a three-hour flight!" They never add, "But you'll probably sit in miserable traffic on the way to the airport, then security will take you another forty-five minutes, and don't even get me started on weather and mechanical delays."
Of course, I can't really say these are necessary evils as travel is more of a luxury rather than a necessity (for leisure, that is), but given a choice between flying and driving and I'll drive every time.
