does it really take 2 hours and $30-$50 to get from LA/SD to SF?
By plane, it takes about 3 hours (1 hour flight, 1 hour at the airport, ~1 hour driving to/from airports) and costs $50-100. By car, it takes 6-8 hours and costs about $100.*
*$50 for gas at around $4 per gallon; I read a while ago that car maintenance costs about as much as gas, so double this to get the full cost.
Note for non-Americans: California is almost twice the size of the UK. The distance from LA to SF roughly equals the distance from Oxford to Paris.
By plane, it takes about 3 hours (1 hour flight, 1 hour at the airport, ~1 hour driving to/from airports) and costs $50-100. By car, it takes 6-8 hours and costs about $100.*
*$50 for gas at around $4 per gallon; I read a while ago that car maintenance costs about as much as gas, so double this to get the full cost.
Note for non-Americans: California is almost twice the size of the UK. The distance from LA to SF roughly equals the distance from Oxford to Paris.