Fly or Drive?

We're finally getting around to buying plane tickets for Christmas. We're going to go back to Texas for a week. Tonight when I looked at tickets, I choked a bit. Tickets for our dates were $330 - 540! Yikes! So for the two of us, that means spending somewhere between $660 and $1080. Wow, that's a lot of money.

The drive to Dallas is a little over 1000 miles and takes about 15 hours. (I've driven it three times in total so far.) We estimate it will cost somewhere around $200 - 250 in gas roundtrip. We may or may not need a hotel room. If a hotel room is necessary, we can easily add another $100 - 150. That's still about half the cost of flying both of us. AND we could take the dogs rather than leave them here. (We have wonderful neighbors who look after them, but a week is a lot to ask.)

So the decision needs to be made and SOON. Should we fly or drive? It it worth spending 30 hours in the car to save $300 - 400?

If it were you, what would you do?

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