Airports: Best or Worst? I’ll Take the Road Instead😎

Traveller choosing a road trip instead of an airport journey
Daily writing prompt
What’s the best and worst airport you’ve been to?

I’ll Take the Road Instead

What’s the best and worst airport you’ve been to?

Honestly, this is one of those prompts where I have to admit—I’m probably not the right person to answer. 😁 I’ve been to quite a few airports, so it’s not that I haven’t seen enough of them. I just never really thought about which one was the best or the worst.

To me, most airports are more or less the same.

You check in, go through security, find your gate, wait for your flight, board, and then you’re off. Of course, some airports are bigger, cleaner, quieter, or more convenient than others. But I’ve never travelled with the thought, “Let me see if this airport is better than the last one.” 😂

Maybe that’s because airports have never been the most interesting part of travelling for me.

Give Me the Open Road

If you ask me what kind of travelling I actually enjoy, my answer would be very different.

Road trips. Give me an open road, good company, some music, beautiful views, and the freedom to stop whenever I feel like it—and I’m happy.

There’s something about road trips that makes the journey feel like part of the destination.

With a flight, the journey can sometimes feel like something you simply have to get through before the actual holiday begins. With a road trip, the journey itself becomes a part of the experience.

You can stop for a cup of tea at a little roadside place. You can pull over because the view is too beautiful to ignore. You can take a wrong turn and somehow discover a place you would never have planned to visit.

And sometimes, the best memories are made during those unplanned moments.

So, Best or Worst Airport?

I honestly don’t have an answer.

I could probably name an airport that was particularly convenient or one where I had an annoying experience, but choosing the best or the worst feels a little too serious when I don’t really compare airports that way.

For me, travelling has never been about rating airports.

It’s about where I’m going, who I’m travelling with, what I see along the way, and the little memories I bring back home.

So, today’s prompt is probably not really applicable to me. 😁

If I have to choose between spending hours thinking about which airport I liked best and getting into a car and heading out on a road trip…

I’ll take the road instead. 🚗💨

Some people collect airport experiences.

I’d rather collect road-trip stories.

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What about you? Are you an airport person, or would you choose a road trip any day? I’d love to know. 🚗✈️

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Until The Next Whisper,

—Rajeshwari 🧿💕

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Comments

21 responses to “Airports: Best or Worst? I’ll Take the Road Instead😎”

  1. iamfoolz Avatar
    iamfoolz

    I am with you on this one. Airports are where the journey pauses, but the road is where it actually begins. I would choose wheels over wings any day. 😀

  2. Goin' the extra...aaamile Avatar

    It depends on where we are driving to, Rajeshwari. Goa to Kolkata is better by flight than road. That said, if I have someone like Kriti Sanon (Ally from Cocktail 2) for company, I might want to drive with her to Japan from India 😂😂😂

  3. Hazel Avatar

    Well, I think I like road trips if every hour, we stop to a nature-filled setting and camp.🤩 I like your answer, Rajeshwari.

  4. Lalitha Avatar

    I am with you on this! Gimme a train trip or a road trip and I am blissed out!

    I have been in and out of 4 airports till date. Except one, none even registered.

    Chennai was bleh. Dusty . Humid. Momentary.

    Hyderabad was blah. Too big. Too shiny. Too sanitized.

    Mumbai was OMG.. will the walk ever end? I walked and I walked and by the time I reached my gate I felt like I would rather have walked all the way to Nairobi instead of taking a damn flight! The only thing worth remembering was the design at the entrance.

    Jomo Kenyatta at Nairobi. Now that’s an airport I loved. Quick immigration. Quicker baggage retrival. Quickest exit. Those Kenyans surely knew how to welcome tourists into their country! They knew how to bid goodbye just the same. The Q moved so fast, I was I was near my gate in a jiffy! Thos was pre-covid. Godonlyknows how it is faring now. Clean. Does best what it is meant to. I like!

  5. Girish Mani Avatar

    Yeah, road trips are best, alas, I didn’t do many road trips with friends, maybe I’ll get opportunity sometime in future…

  6. vermavkv Avatar

    I absolutely loved reading this, 😊 Your honest admission that you don’t really have a “best” or “worst” airport made me smile.

    I completely agree that airports are often just the bridge between where we are and where we want to be. But a road trip is different—the journey itself becomes part of the adventure. 🚗

  7. Velvet horizon Avatar

    Yah same here i also don’t have answer of this so I’m on your side today 😂😂

  8. Vijay Srivastava Avatar

    Rajeshwari Ji,

    Perhaps the true value of a journey is not measured by how quickly we reach our destination, but by what the journey awakens within us.

    An airport may carry us from one place to another, but an open road gives us the opportunity to pause, observe, and truly experience the journey. Life is much the same. In our eagerness to reach the destination, we often overlook the quiet moments unfolding along the way.

    The real journey begins when the outer road is accompanied by an inner journey. An unexpected turn, a change of direction, or an unplanned stop may sometimes become more meaningful than the destination we had carefully chosen.

    In the end, our most precious memories may not be of the places where we arrived, but of what we felt, learned, and discovered along the way.

    Perhaps that is the deeper lesson: the destination matters, but the consciousness with which we travel matters even more.

    🙏

  9. thetravelingtaylorsofficial Avatar
    thetravelingtaylorsofficial

    The line about taking a wrong turn and finding somewhere you’d never have planned to visit is the whole case for road trips, right there. We travel with our kids and the unplanned stops are the only bits they actually remember afterwards — nobody has ever come home raving about a terminal. Team open road with you on this one, Rajeshwari.

  10. NeuralAYM Avatar

    Nice post! We loved reading and learning from your content, especially the ‘wrong turn’ part. It’s a microcosm of life, honestly, taking ‘wrong turns’ and discovering unknown possibilities. It’s part of what keeps our brain constantly developing, something we talk about!

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  11. Aayush Tiwari Avatar
    Aayush Tiwari

    i think if we choose the roadside with our feets so it will give a different point of view rather than discovering with cars .

    1. nihshabdblog Avatar

      So true! 🤍 There’s something really special about slowing down and experiencing the journey on foot. 🦋✨

  12. Bana.fahgeo Avatar

    That really is a good answer! Hope all is well!

    1. nihshabdblog Avatar

      Thank you so much! 😊 All is well here, hope everything is good with you too! 🦋🤍✨

  13. Klausbernd Avatar

    We really like road trips. We just plan a little one and start buying goodies for the road. We like on road trips most their individuality, in contrast flying is mass tourism. We once flew easy jet. That was a big mistake. It started already on the airport and later in the plane it was horrible mass tourism. Then we better stay at home.
    The Fab Four of Cley
    🙂 🙂 🙂 🙂

    1. nihshabdblog Avatar

      I completely understand! 😊 There’s something special about road trips the freedom, little stops, and all those goodies for the journey. 🤍It feels so much more personal than the rush of airports and crowded flights…🚗🦋✨

  14. samaysakshi Avatar

    Very nice, truly if we are traveling long distance we have to depend on journey by flights, but the air journey and the formalities at the airport are not a part we really enjoy. While if we are performing road journey with family or a group, every bit of it is part of entertainment including the stop overs, though some airports are very beautifully maintained and might deserve praise for that.

    1. nihshabdblog Avatar

      So true! 😊 The journey itself becomes part of the fun when you’re travelling by road with family or friends. The little stops, conversations, and unexpected moments are often the best part! 🤍🚗

  15. Rupali Avatar

    True. Get set go 🚗

    1. nihshabdblog Avatar

      Thank you so much 😊

  16. harpiytravel Avatar

    I also love road trips and just finished one for the long weekend. The beauty of a road trip is the control you have over it: you can stop whenever you want, stay wherever you like, discover towns you might never see if you travel by air, try local food and cafes, and experience nature up close. Also, you can put almost everything in your car, unlike the limitations on flights. When we travel, we take blankets, pillow, luggage, kid’s toys, water bottles, food items, stroller, baby carrier and what not.

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