My wife and I consider our lives to be better when there is some adventure thrown in there. There are no children and we own our business so, schedule aren’t a really big deal. The plan is to usually throw a 3 or 4 day weekend into the mix at least once per month. Nothing to do but pile in the gear and hit the highway for fun times. Planes just don’t fit in that picture anymore. Driving ourselves is more expedient and it certainly is a lot more comfortable. The savings are applied to paying for accommodations along the way. We both are always on the lookout for the those awesome interstate hotels. Our plans no longer include the fancy downtown places. Their HVAC is always pathetic. We end up paying all this money for fancy stuff only to sweat or freeze to death because of inferior heating and cooling. The 3 star interstate hotels are the ones that we now do business with. They are awesome. The HVAC units in those place heat up or cool down very fast. I’m not waiting hours to cool off the room so I can get some rest. My lovely wife feels the same way I do. She was initially hesitant about the roadside hotels. But, she experienced a great place during a conference and she was sold on the HVAC. The places are always very clean, comfy and the price is right. Friends of ours look down their noses at us but we really don’t care. All I care about is good HVAC and that wonderful free breakfast in the morning.