One of the difficult aspects for many people during the Christmas season is travel. Christmas is certainly no longer “over the river and through the woods, to Grandmother’s house we go.” Over fifty percent of all Americans now live over 500 miles from the place of their childhood roots. Going “home” for Christmas now means arriving at the airport an hour early, lugging presents to the UPS pick-up, renting a car, hoping you can get through the two-and-a-half hour layover in some big city airport, avoiding gridlock when passing near an urban metropolis, and wondering if you will have to spend the night in a train station as inclement weather backs up the schedule of an entire corridor of the country.

It’s painful to have to stay in a strange place, far from home, when you really want to get…