tink1970
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- Joined
- Dec 29, 2012
Interesting to hear the Tuscaloosa talk, DS (22) is moving there in August for his masters program. I haven’t been there before, though I have spent a little time in Birmingham which I always enjoyed. When my kids were little I would take them to the zoo (smallish but fun) and also the civil rights sites downtown. I’m hoping when I visit I’ll be able to stay with DS in his apartment though and not have to spend my precious hotel points. I hadn’t even thought of flying into Jackson. I suppose Montgomery is as bad as flying into Birmingham?
By "bad" do you mean expensive? I think that's just relative, depending on when you look and how you value points/miles and of course, the relative fluctuations of flights (and...of course football weekends ). For DF's funeral, many friends and relatives flew into BHM v.Hunstsville since it's serviced by WN (Southwest) so it might work out well for you. Then again, Montgomery might be cheaper and it's a fairly easy (but boring unless it's rush hour) drive from Montgomery to Tuscaloosa. Big picture, smaller markets are usually more expensive than larger markets and smaller to smaller are almost always going to be more than smaller to larger (says the person who spent a year and a half flying to/from PNS to HSV).
Congrats on grad school for your DS, time flies!