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Eating my words…..

For the past couple months, I’ve been fairly critical about everybody who’s been complaining about the upsurge in gas prices. As I look at it now, I’ve been fairly insulated from the fuel price crisis, especially given the fact that a round-trip commute puts a whopping 3 miles on my car.

However, it seems that all the money I’ve been saving by driving short distances has really come round this time to bite me. Why, you might ask?

It’s now that time of year when I try to make plane reservations to travel back to NY for the Christmas holiday. What was once a relatively affordable trip has now reached a stratospheric price! All that money I’ve saved on car gas, I’m now going to have to shell out to the airline companies (which is totally where I like to spend my money). :/

Anyway, if there’s a silver lining in all this, I’ve discovered a new (and amazing) web site to search for airfares! Airdig.com simply opens a frame from which you can enter your desired flight info once, and can search multiple flight aggregators, travel agencies, and airline companies, even making notes along the way! This way, I can feel just slightly better about flying this December!