Memorial Day weekend broke travel records!

Added: 2026-06-01

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[00:00:06]So, the title of this is going to be Memorial Day weekend set travel records.

[00:00:14]So, we're going to talk about it.

[00:00:16]So, admin notes, thanks again to all the subscribers that have subscribed to my channel.

[00:00:20]I endeavor to keep pushing this out to give you leverage to better yourselves. Also, as a disclaimer, um this might not stay the title of this video. You know what I'm saying? I'm just putting that out there because this is one of the things I'm going to talk about when it comes to Memorial Day weekend.

[00:00:34]I might I might change the title a little bit because there are some moving parts when it comes to how folks navigate it this past Memorial Day weekend. So, let's get into it.

[00:00:44]So, I read a stat um a couple of days ago and it said that 45 million people traveled this year during Memorial Day weekend. Now, today is May is May 30th of 2026. Actually, today my middle my middle child, Christian, graduated high school today. So, shout out to CJ. That's That's the nickname that me and my me and my wife gave him uh years ago.

[00:01:07]Um so, yeah, it's a blessing to have to see kids graduate. So, my daughter's going to be the last one. She'll be three, right? But, so, 45 million people traveled this year.

[00:01:19]Now, mind you, we got we we all we all see what the gas prices are. You know what I'm saying?

[00:01:25]>> [laughter] >> Gas prices are actually insane.

[00:01:29]So, I'm I'm sitting here thinking like, you know, and of course they're they're they're including, you know, you know, young folks, middle middle-aged folks, old folks, children, things of that nature, right? You know what I'm saying?

[00:01:39]The whole conglomerate of folks that actually traveled. 45 million.

[00:01:44]It said that 39 million I'm sorry. Yeah, 39 million families traveled by car.

[00:01:53]We I Okay, we we going to put that into perspective in a little bit here. So, 39, 39 million people traveled by car this year.

[00:02:02]2.2 million traveled by air.

[00:02:05]I'm sorry. I'm sorry. Uh 3.6 traveled by air, right? And of course ticket prices through the roof right now. And then they said the other I think 2.2 million people traveled through other means like uh um bus, train, things of that nature, right?

[00:02:22]But, think about that, man. 39 million people Now, we we can't break that down into families cuz you got families that is large as 15 people. You know what I'm saying? So, we're not saying 39 million families, we're just saying 39 million people. So, plus or minus however number you think of it is, you know what I'm saying? 39 million people was traveling by car. And I know that's a I know that's a fact because, like I said before, I live literally right down the street from from I-95. Like if I leave my neighborhood right now, make a right, and then make another right, and then make another right.

[00:02:52]It's three rights. And then I go up this little hill, and the entrance to I-95 is literally right there. You know what I'm saying? So, and then also the other road If I If I make a left out of my neighborhood going the other direction, I actually cross a bridge on that small road that crosses over I-95.

[00:03:06]And my son's high school is in that direction. So, every morning, every afternoon for a couple of years, I watch I-95 in real time and forecast how the traffic is, whether it be the rush hour traffic, weekends, holidays, all those things, right? And my wife was going to the store to grab some things I think on Wednesday of that week, right? And she said literally it took her 20 minutes to leave our neighborhood to get to Route 1 to get to I-95. 20 minutes.

[00:03:33]On a normal day, it takes less than a minute to get down this road. It took her 20 minutes.

[00:03:38]>> [laughter] >> Then she actually get on she she crosses over the the main bridge to get into the city, and then she said it took her another 25 minutes to get to where she was going to.

[00:03:47]So, all together it took her 2 hours on a trip that normally would have taken a 25 minutes in total. 2 hours instead of 25 minutes.

[00:03:56]She said literally route one was a freaking parking lot. When she passed by the bridge to get where she could see 95, she said 95 was a parking lot on a Wednesday.

[00:04:06]You know, normally folks that got a corporate job or you know, or a a sedentary job or something like that whatever somewhere where they making a good amount of money, you know what I'm saying? They got to and they got a pension if they retire or they got a certain type of salary and not a contract job, right? Most of those jobs would give you the holiday off but they may give you, you know, the day the day before the weekend or they give you the day after the holiday. You know what I'm saying? So, this year Memorial Day fell on a a Monday. So, a lot of folks already knew we're going to have Friday off, right? And a lot of folks would travel on that Thursday to maximize their travel time, right? But she said literally on Wednesday >> [laughter] >> it was like that. Thursday and Friday we didn't even want to speak about that, you know what I'm saying? We unfortunately I live right close to 95 and a lot of times if an accident happens, they bottleneck onto that part of route one where I live at. So, it's been numerous times over these past 10 years that I left my neighborhood and literally turned back around. I I promise you. Literally, I would literally go into somebody's own driveway and bust a U-turn and come back home because there was no way. Ain't no way. I can't I can't take traffic like that, you know what I'm saying? So, I saw it in real time folks traveling to go somewhere, you know what I'm saying? And I mean, it's crazy.

[00:05:21]These bees are terrible over here, y'all.

[00:05:22]>> [laughter] >> But um yeah, I mean, yo.

[00:05:27]Real time.

[00:05:29]Real time I I saw this stuff.

[00:05:32]And you know, I'm sitting here thinking like I literally on that Saturday. That Saturday it kind of I could see it kind of calmed down a little bit because, you know, this this area that I live in is not necessarily a Memorial Day weekend area to visit, you know what I'm saying?

[00:05:44]Most folks are trying to go to the beach or they're trying to go to a big city or something like that, you know what I'm saying? Like this is the country, y'all.

[00:05:49]You know what I'm saying? If anything, folks were coming here to go to a grave site, or they're coming to visit family, you know what I'm saying? So, this is a small town I live in. So, you know, I know it was going to be a lot of traffic around here on the actual weekend itself. Only the travel days, I knew it was going to be crazy.

[00:06:02]And you know, I'm sitting here you know, on on a Saturday you know, trying to think about like, okay I can't believe that all these folks left this town, and gas is freaking 480.

[00:06:15]It was 480 on Wednesday, right?

[00:06:18]$4.80.

[00:06:21]Last year, I think it might have been 250 during that time, you know what I'm saying?

[00:06:25]So, I'm like um everybody hollering broke, I'm like, where?

[00:06:33]How y'all hollering broke?

[00:06:35]And y'all taking freaking SUVs eight hours out the way to go somewhere.

[00:06:41]Do you Do you Do you understand folks that may not drive anything, whatever, you know what I'm saying? Do you understand how much it cost to fill an Expedition up? Or to fill up a Suburban, or Yukon, or Wagoneer?

[00:06:56]And I'm Real talk, and even trucks, you know what I'm saying? And I saw plenty of them on 95 and on Route 1 just getting it, trying to get somewhere.

[00:07:07]And I'm like, these are not electric cars, these are gas-guzzling cars.

[00:07:11]And you're paying over $4 for gas to go to travel. Not Not no local freaking um traveling, I'm talking about they're going out the way. They're going down to Florida, they're going down to South Carolina.

[00:07:22]Uh they may be going to Texas, you know what I'm saying? Like, yo I Y'all not broke, man, you know what I'm saying? But, you know, once again, I got to preface this, you know what I'm saying? To a certain degree, I got to go back a little bit into the front of the video, and and give this a disclaimer.

[00:07:36]Where I live at is close to DC. You got folks that make a a of money around here, you know what I'm saying? And inflation and the economy to a certain degree is not necessarily seen in my area, you know what I'm saying?

[00:07:48]I mean I'm just I'm just being real, you know what I'm saying? Like there are some areas in this in this county and in this this rural area I live in where you can kind of see, you know, folks struggling to a little bit, whatever, you know what I'm saying? But for the most part, man, especially in my neighborhood, like I don't see anybody hurting, yo.

[00:08:04]I don't know people's business. I'm not pocket watching anything like that, you know what I'm saying? But I mean but, you know, on the on the on the surface, it don't seem like it's a inflation going on right now. It don't seem like it's a drop going on right now. It seem like people got money, yo. My neighbor across the street, right? He's a retired Marine.

[00:08:19]Retired about 2 years before I did. He just bought himself a SUV BMW and bought his 17-year-old his No, his 16-year-old son a used burgundy BMW.

[00:08:30]Boy just got his license.

[00:08:33]Before they had he had a a black a blacked-out issue expedition.

[00:08:40]Yeah, where where y'all where y'all broke at?

[00:08:43]I I don't see it. I don't see it, man. I do not see it. So, you know, and of course, you know, a lot of folks around here in this in this in this neighborhood, I can only imagine cuz I know I know some of them personally, some of them have businesses, right?

[00:08:56]Some of them have passive income, regardless of how they make it, you know what I'm saying? They got You got folks who that live in my neighborhood that um you know, they are retired military like I am, you know what I'm saying? So, that's a part of passive income.

[00:09:08]Um you have um multi-family homes in this neighborhood, meaning that you got a husband and wife and you got their mama living with them, their daddy, their children, you know what I'm saying? Relatives, and it all pitched in into that into that pot when it comes to the mortgage, when it comes to electricity bill, water bill, all of that, you know what I'm saying? So, people are smart around here. People understand the difference between, you know, struggling and making and making sure you make it and doing by and doing anything that is possible to make sure you make it. You know what I'm saying?

[00:09:39]So, you know, I didn't stay in my home thank thank God and didn't lose it, you know what I'm saying, by not understanding how money works, not understanding how to navigate my finances, even though inflation was still going up during that time. You know what I'm saying? Folks got to understand last year was was no joke either. You know what I'm saying? Stuff was still getting high.

[00:09:57]You know what I'm saying? But, I still was able to navigate that thing because I understand how money works.

[00:10:03]But, I'm telling you right now, I can only imagine that more than half of them more than half of the 39 million people that was traveling this year might have been swiping that credit card at the pump. Every every every 2 3 hours when they was on the road and everything to get to the gas pump, they pull that pull out that that that credit card and they swiping, yo. They swiping and tapping. Tap tap tap or swiping.

[00:10:24]All day long. By the time they get home, they didn't freaking pay hundreds of dollars hundreds upon hundreds of dollars on gas just to get to where they going at. You know what I'm saying? I hope these folks don't paint a picture in it when they got to where they was going at and trying to watch their pockets when they was out there trying to you know, trying to have a good time.

[00:10:39]I'm not hating you for doing that. I'm just saying like I Personally, I I never enjoyed going somewhere and having to watch my pockets like a like a hawk when I'm going to get something when I'm on vacation. Now, I have a pot of money that I put to the side to where like I'm not splurging the money when I'm on vacation, you know what I'm saying? But, I understand that if I go somewhere and my burger is $12, I could care less about it being $12 because I didn't put money away to under to to to understand that that's not coming out of my bill money. You know what I'm saying? I could give a damn about a $12 burger.

[00:11:10]$12 burger don't hurt me because I got vacation money. That's what it's for.

[00:11:13]You know what I'm saying? But, I'm pretty sure a lot of these folks out here that did this, man, did not do that.

[00:11:18]They sacrificed bill money and put them put themselves in credit card debt to go on vacation.

[00:11:24]Traveling with gas damn near $5 a gallon in certain in certain areas. I know in California and Washington state is damn near $6. If not, it's already $6, You know what I'm saying? But I'm talking about your average area like in on the East Coast or maybe the Midwest or whatever, it ain't $6 yet. But I mean, damn.

[00:11:40]>> [laughter] >> You know what I'm saying?

[00:11:43]Memorial Day weekend Y'all asses should have sat down.

[00:11:47]Y'all should have sat down and figured out your finances. You and your wife or you and your husband should have sat down and said, "You know what? We're going to sit and we we we going to we going to we going to cancel Memorial Day. We might do a little barbecue or or outside on the deck or whatever or on in in the backyard or whatever. We're going to sit down and we're going to hash these finances out because I cannot we cannot as a family, you know what I'm saying, go on a vacation and put ourselves in more debt because we're trying to live life, you know what I'm saying? It ain't about that. It's about us moving forward in the best position possible and making sure our kids are seeing a good example, you know what I'm saying? If you are a family right now, a husband, I'm I'm I'm only talking about wives right now. I'm I'm going to talk to the husbands. If you was a husband this year that went on Memorial Day weekend and took that vacation knowing that you should not take the vacation, right, and you get home finances are are eating your ass up, pause.

[00:12:37]And your kid needs something and you can't buy it because you spent that money on Memorial Day weekend.

[00:12:46]That should make you cringe. That should make you feel very upset.

[00:12:50]And damn near like a failure.

[00:12:52]For your child to need something and you can't pay for it because you decided that you was going to take vacation any damn way not knowing that that wasn't the best financial decision for you to make on Memorial Day weekend this weekend. This past weekend.

[00:13:09]Memorial Day weekend this year 2026 broke travel records. Folks spent their money to go on vacation.

[00:13:18]How y'all pockets feeling now?

[00:13:21]So I appreciate y'all. Love y'all. And I'll catch y'all next video. Say so G, signing out. I'm gone.