Sure, there are traffic jams and gasoline is expensive, but car travel is so easy that we often forget how lucky we are.
If we lived in the 1800s and our only mode of transportation was a covered wagon, the most we could expect to travel in a day is about 20 miles.
It could take weeks, months or even a year or more to reach one’s destination, depending on the length of the journey, the weather and the terrain.
Now, air travel is the most expeditious (see definition below) form of transportation with most jets flying at about 500 mph.
You can board a plane in California and land in New York, about 2,500 miles away, in a little more than five hours.
Now, that’s expeditious travel!
Cool word vocabulary question of the day: Can you think of another form of expeditious travel?
EXPEDITIOUS: Marked by speed and efficiency.
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