Dina Guillen had planned to make the 520-mile drive from her home in the Rio Grande Valley to Dallas to visit family for her teenager’s spring break. But after calculating the cost — particularly the painfully high price of gas — she decided to figure out a cheaper way.
So instead of an eight-hour journey through Texas two weeks ago , she made a two-hour jaunt to Corpus Christi. The change shaved off about $100 in gas costs. Ms. Guillen, 46, a home health care worker, said she still hopes to get to Dallas with her daughter in the coming months, but only if gas prices drop.
“We’ll wait until the summer and see what happens,” she said. “It’s scary what’s going on.”
Spring break, one of the busiest vacation seasons of the year, has presented a trifecta of headaches for travelers: soaring gas prices and airfare spikes, long and unpredictable airport security lines tied to a partial government shutdown, and persistently high food costs.
As Gas Prices Approach $4 a Gallon, Americans Rethink Vacations
