[SchmennaLeigh]

We live 800 miles apart. (Between 6-8 hour drive depending on who is driving, traffic and seasonal weather.)

We have four visits per year which are basically split. For two, we go there. For two, they come here. It has been more or less for a party, depending on what the plans were (for example, they have better vacationing spots in their direction so we had an extra trip out East this summer). Obviously, they don't pay our way. We handle all of that ourselves whether we fly or drive.