Like the old song says, "There's no place like home for the holidays".

Donnie and Linda are spending Christmas with Linda's dad in Arkansas but getting there is NOT half the fun.

"We had not traveled during a holiday for many years, and had no idea how awful it is. A road trip on the weekend before Christmas is probably our worst idea of the year.

In the first five hours, four of them on I-35, we averaged just 40 miles per hour, often dead-stopped, on an Interstate. A rest stop at a tiny town was so crowded we immediately got back in the car and kept moving, or crawling.

Horrors! The poor planet is over-run with humans."