Holiday travel going well – for now

NEW YORK – Fair weather helped to make your vacation stay is not very painful experience for a large part of the country Wednesday, even with more people hitting the streets and skies than last year, but good luck travelers could be exhausted.

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A storm expected to bring snow and ice in parts of the mainland Friday, a rare white Christmas in Nashville on Saturday, and perhaps sock swaths of the Northeast on Sunday.

"People going to Grandma's house," said Bobby Boyd, a meteorologist for the National Weather Service in Nashville, "must get going."

Eric and Tatiana Chodkowski, Boston, led Thursday with their children, aged 2 and 4, to see relatives in New York. They said the forecast for snow on Sunday made them wonder if they will do it as planned.

We judge the congestion, but manageable Thursday, and most people found airports to be in the same way.

Planes took off in stormy sky, but can accommodate at LaGuardia in New York airport, such as Steve Kent ready to fly to Denver for a family ski trip, scoffing at the puny lines.

"I do not find it so difficult," he said. "I think Thanksgiving is more difficult."

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The Journey lie spread-out nature of the celebrations at the end of the year means things will not be as cramped as holidays such as Thanksgiving, when almost everyone is in motion the same day.

"We have many people who already may have taken off from work," said Troy Green, a spokesman for AAA. "They have reached their destination before today."

Mike Lukosavich, of Harrison Township, Mich., was surprised the first leg of his trip was moving so smoothly, when he stopped at the restroom on the Ohio Turnpike in Elmore, Ohio, near Toledo.

He, his wife and 8-month daughter were heading to see family in Parkersburg, W.Va. only headache came when he saw the price of gas around $ 3 a gallon.

"It's something we need to do to see her family," said Lukosavich, 33.

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The AAA is expected to increase total travel of about 3 percent this year, with more than 92 million people planning to travel more than 50 miles at some time between now and January 2. Over 90 percent said they would drive.

Maria Romero, a cashier at the Chevron Food Mart in close proximity to Interstate 15, Barstow, Calif., said she has seen an increase in travel there, especially families and people from out of state.

"It's wonderful. We need it, "he said. "The busier the better."

The Air Transport Association expects 44.3 million people in the U.S. flights between December 16 and January 5 – by 3 percent during the same period a year ago but still below pre-recession volume of travel. The average ticket price is $ 421, up 5 percent.

The Vino Volo Wine Room at Detroit Metropolitan Airport will benefit from more and more travelers, director Mark Del Duco said Thursday.

"The atmosphere of Christmas is over there this year than last," he said, considering that sales are up 10 percent this year compared to last year, as economic confidence travelers spend more freely.

Some people were excited about the mode of transportation. Anthony Lauro joined about 100 people lined up Thursday morning bound for Montreal coach at Port Authority of New York City bus terminal in New Jersey to Manhattan. He faced eight-hour ride to see his fiancee there.

"Flying in Canada is astronomically overpriced," he said.

Helping matters is the most populous parts of the country took a break from the weather Thursday with rain finally stopping in California and in a few days away in the East.

But the next storm was a concern Thursday in parts of the nation's midsection.

The Steve Brown, 50, of Elm Creek, Neb., Left Tuesday afternoon and drove all night to beat the storm worked its way east. Brown grain hauler, took his two children to see his mother for the dairy, Ohio where he grew up.

"I had orders to come home or she was going to come get me," Brown said during the rest of the area in Elmore, where adults are full of coffee while the kids traveling with their pajamas, loaded up on Tater Tots .

After the record snow falls in the east and a treacherous journey Christmas season last year, the weather ways to mess up trip seems to be on many minds.

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At LaGuardia, Mike and Martha Lee Mellis expected to fly to Aspen, Colo, with three young children. The dreaded a repetition of the ski trip last winter when a blizzard struck Chicago and moved to the door to their home.

"We had to go back through Philadelphia, and I had to rent a car and drive everyone home at 11 pm, The Mike Mellis recalled.

His wife had tried to forget, saying, "I blocked everything out."

Mulvihill reported from Haddonfield, NJ contribution to this report were Associated Press writers David Goodman in Detroit; Samantha Bomkamp in Washington; Lucas L. Johnson II in Nashville; Verena Dobnik in New York; Michelle Price in Phoenix? And John Seewer in Elmore.

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