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What travel modes do you enjoy? What do you hate? What is your absolute favorite way to travel?

While cars aren't my fave, I am pretty okay driving. The two modes of transport I love, though, are trains and boats. Trains edge out just a little as my top fave.

The one way of travelling I hate is planes (I'd probably hate helicopters or any other air travel mode if I tried that too). Due to the combo of vertigo and a fear of heights (probably caused by said vertigo), flying is really miserable for me. If there is another option for travel that is feasible, I will always choose that over flying.

Even though they’re slow as hell here, I love traveling by train. I just like spacing out, staring at all the scenery passing by, and making up stories in my head. I’m fine with cars as long as I’m not the one driving ‘cause I hate to drive. I’m afraid of traveling by planes and boats. I have an irrational fear that the plane will explode or the boat will sink.

Trains are really fun to me, even if they are slow. I even enjoyed taking the subway when I lived in Boston.

I'm always terrified the plane is going to crash when I'm on it, but I'm usually even more terrified that the plane is going to flip. My vertigo is bad enough that it usually feels like it is going to far every time it does a steep turn. I also have this weird fear when it is ascending that it is somehow going to be sucked up and we're going to end up in space instead of on the ground.

Boats don't scare me, though. But I grew up on the water. I could swim by 5. And yes, I get that swimming isn't always an option in a boat crash. But water just doesn't scare me. It feels like home.

I get travel sick on cars and bus journeys that last over an hour, so they're my least favourite. If I had endless amounts of money I would say by boat - me and my friend got to do the tourist thing and travel to central London by boat along the Thames, which was fun :) They've been trying to get people to use it more as daily transport, but yeah its pricy.
So my second best is the train. I've never been sick on a train and its perfect when its long and I can just listen to music the whole time.

I get carsick when someone else is driving unless I'm listening to music. music seems to keep me from getting sick. Buses can make me sick even with music though.`

I go back and forth on flying. There have been times in my life when I've really enjoyed it as a mode of transport, honestly. and there have been times where it's been really awful, and where I have major anxiety about turbulence and safety. I don't know what makes the difference.

Hate driving. I didn't learn until I was 28 because I was terrified of driving. I still can, but hate it. I do enjoy being a passenger though!

I've only ridden on a train twice but I enjoyed it a ton.

I actually love flying. Having pre-check definitely helps! Makes it less miserable.

Every time I've used public transportation in cities I've visited, I've LOVED IT. Both subways and buses. My goal is to move to a city with good public transportation so I never have to drive again.

Honestly, flying is so miserable for me regardless of how difficult it is to actually get to the plane. It is the flying itself that is awful. So the rest doesn't bother me that much, I'm too busy being terrified.

I didn't learn to drive until around 25, and I wasn't comfortable driving until almost 30. But once I got my own car and started doing it more, I got used to it. I still hate back roads, though, because I get nervous if I don't know where I'm going. I much prefer the highway where I can turn the music up and mostly just go straight.

Public transportation is great. That is the reason I didn't have a car for a while. When I lived in a city with good transport, it was nice. Boston was great. But once I moved to Texas, the system here isn't very good.

I'm the opposite. I take backroads every where!

I love road trips, boats are cool, and flying is my least favorite but I don't HATE it. I've never traveled by train, but it sounds fun!

my fave would probably be being driven by a really good friend. A long time ago I loved plane travel but that was before 9/11. I also like trains, I used to visit my bestie by Amtrak all the time and it was a route with beautiful scenery and I would take yummy takeout food and books and my headphones with music and just really enjoy it. (It was also less expensive than it would have been if I had bought gas and driven!)

Literally the only way I seem to be able to travel without motion sickness is by car and only if I'm driving, and only if I don't eat or drink for about a day beforehand and happen to have a good day on the day I need to drive.

Flying is the worst though, and I will gladly take an 8 hour car trip over a 1 hour flight as long as I can drive and not eat for a day beforehand.

So, so with you on the long drive over a short flight thing. Flying is basically torture. Motion sickness, vertigo, and abject terror. Not my idea of fun.

I'm sorry everything makes you sick. Have you tried music? Playing music, especially for some reason with in-ear ipods, seems to help me at least some.

Makes it worse for me since the problem seems to basically be sensory input issues. The less things that are assaulting my senses at once the better.

Which in itself sucks because I really used to love singing in the car, I'd sing the entire 8-10 hour drive down to Baltimore. Now I can hardly even speak out loud, let alone sing more than a couple lines of a song before I choke, and I can't even LISTEN to the stuff I would've been singing along with if I'm moving.

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philstar22 - 2022-06-14 00:59 (UTC) - Expand

I love trains. The last time I was overseas I went from London to Edinburgh by train and it was such an experience and relaxing ride. I'm so disappointed there's none that run where I live that aren't heritage or only go from one place to another and not around the state.

My least favourite is planes, due to my anxiety and fear of heights. Which absolutely sucks because Australia is 20+ hours from anywhere in the world.

Oh man, so sorry about the flying. Right there with you. It was pretty bad for me when I lived in the Philippines too. At least now that I'm in the US, I can drive a lot of places.

London - Edinburgh is the trip i wanna take for my summer holiday! I'm in central Europe so i could theoretically fly to scotland, but i can't do a 1-2h flight. (i feel bad for the climate)
So I'll take the Eurostar to London, and then go up to Scotland by train.

If you break your journey part way up it can be cheaper. I broke my journey in Manchester a few years ago and changed trains there. The two separate tickets were half the price of the single ticket to Edinburgh.

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(Anonymous) - 2022-06-14 20:25 (UTC) - Expand

I hate and despise flying, always have. Everything about sucks. Plus, since I was a kid I get horrible motion sickness, so driving to the airport, riding in the jitney from long-term parking, getting on the plane, jitney to the rental car, then rental to our destination was *torture*.

Only made slightly better in my early 20s by a Scopolamine patch. I get motion sickness unless I'm driving, so passenger in car, bus, or boat is out (unless i'm on drugs), and even get motion sickness driving if the road is really hilly or twisty.

Basically, I wish I could walk everywhere, or someone would freakin' invent teleportation already.

I really like trains. Pre-covid my family went on a vacation to Scotland and we traveled by train. I had brought a bunch of fanfic to read on the various trips - ended up spending all of my time admiring the scenery go by.

I would love flying, but I'm poor and 5'11''. Not a comfortable combo for flying.

Air travel isn't really travel. You go and sit in an uncomfortable room for a while and when you come out you're in a different place. It's like the Star Trek transporter but it takes way longer and there might be pretzels.

Driving can be good, bad, or okay, but depends a lot on traffic (I don't really ever want to drive again in Washington, DC, if I can help it).

I don't really like buses much.

I like the flying part of flying, but I dislike a lot of stuff around commercial flight - the really inefficient lines, hauling your luggage around with you, the number of people and seats crammed in most planes, the TSA and the mind-boggling arbitrariness of their rules. So, if I was on a chartered business jet, I think that would be awesome.

The trains in the UK were pretty nice.

I thought both the Metro and the Underground were decent.

I really liked the Disney Monorail, but it's been a while.

I like the giant golf carts they often use for tours - they are quiet, faster than walking but not too fast, very open so you don't feel top enclosed.

Small motorboats are too loud for me.

Ferries are alright, though loading and unloading can be a pain.

Sky cable cars are pretty smooth, but I'm a little afraid of heights, so I can't fully enjoy them because I think too much how high up they are.

Not a huge fan of horses, but they're alright to ride at a leisurely pace as long as the saddle is okay.

Like everyone else, I do love trains.

I also love walking. I always wanted to walk the long distance footpaths in Europe, especially the one that runs Sweden to Italy.

Planes scare me. Helicopters don't, weirdly, despite being statistically more dangerous.

Trains! No competition
Buses are just not it for long distances. And cars, meh
For the city my favorite is trams, also we have this tramcars with Joker smiles and it is just hilarious to me.
I would like to love flying, but my phobias are getting worse and I have mad ear pressure issue so flying is no fun.

Can't drive, no license. Being a passenger in a car is ok on short Trips. Long car or bus trips make me nauseous.

Flying only for mid and long distance (4h+), bc climate.
Trains whenever possible.

Haven't been on a plane for years at this point and idk how well I'd tolerate it now I've had vertigo issues in the past (had an inflammation of the vestibular nerve and idk if it can flare up or not)

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