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By now, you should pretty well know what your plans are for Thanksgiving: You're either staying home or heading to a friend's or relative's house.
If you are heading out, well, that's when the "fun" begins. In fact, we stopped at the Flying J off I-80 in Tooele County just to hear how much fun people are having.
"We're trying to figure out how to negotiate Salt Lake City," traveler Cindy Vandeveer said.
But heading out on a Thanksgiving road trip is supposed to be something to look forward to, right? "Well, what do you think? He's in the car, and I'm out here talking to you," Vandeveer said.
Vandeveer and her husband are heading to Colorado from California. It's just when we met them at the gas station, they didn't seem to be having much fun at all. "It's just, you know. You know how it is with maps and men and women," VanDeveer explained.
Ah, the joys of the road, where a map and stopping to ask for directions is an argument as old as Thanksgiving itself. That is why Terri Hennighausen is driving herself.
Hennighausen is heading to Steamboat Springs, Colo., from Nevada to visit her son and his three roommates. Thing is, he's cooking for her. "Well, I'm baking, but he's cooking. I'm doing all the pies, and he's doing all the regular cooking," she said.
Rusty Tybo says he's a good cook, which is why his entire family is heading to his Wells, Nev., home for Thanksgiving. Tybo is also Wells' mayor and thinks the lower gas prices this year means more families will be getting together.
"Living in Wells, where it's 50 miles one way to anywhere -- to Elko; 117 to Twin [Falls]; 180 to Salt Lake -- roundtrip, it gets expensive," Tybo said.
For most families, though, just being together is what counts. Just ask that couple arguing all the way to Colorado. "[It] gives us something to do, because there's nothing else to do," Vandeveer said.
It's always an adventure.
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