That's what freedom is all about. But I gotta say, that doesn't sound like all that great a curse to me. I've driven for a couple of days in a few cases. More than halfway across the USA. For some of us, this is pretty much what we grew up with, so we tend to think of some younger folks as a little spoiled in their expectation of instantly moving across thousands of miles and considering an hour in security as intolerable. You probably have little concept of what you missed. A good deal of the earth is foreign territory to you, since you just pass over it at 35,000 feet. We experienced every inch of it. How many have sailed the Atlantic from New York to Germany and back? Have had dinners for a week in the dining room of a passenger ship? Not terribly long ago, it was a widely shared experience. Now hardly anyone has done anything but maybe get on a Royal Caribbean cruise ship.