Ways & Means to/from DEN

Of course, flying into/out of our hometown airport is always our first choice. But it's rarely possible to do so since we prefer to fly non-stop ... especially these days. DEN, therefore, is often the airport we end up using.

How to get to or from DEN — which is about 1.5 hrs away from our house — is a question we have to answer for each trip.

In the past, we've relied on car ride services to do so. In these times of high fuel prices, however, drivers don't want to accept long rides. We found that out in March ... an unnecessarily stressful start to our trip on that occasion.

Taking a taxi is a possibility. As is renting a car or booking a private driver. A shared shuttle? Nope, that's not something Mui likes to do ... especially in these COVID-19 times ... and it doesn't save us money anyway.

There is, of course, the option of driving ourselves and parking at the airport. Most of the time, however, our trips are too long to make this a viable consideration. Not this time, though!

When we canceled the second half of our overseas travel for this summer, parking at the airport for our expedition adventure suddenly became the most sensible option. We can manage our own schedule and cost-wise it will have the least impact on the wallet.

I've already canceled the rental car reservation — the original mode of transportation we had settled on for this trip to DEN — and Mui has the address for the off-airport parking lot so he can program the GPS.

Now we just have to wait for our departure date to come around.Read more