PORTSMOUTH, Va. (WAVY) — With nearly 80 million people expected to travel 50 miles or more from home this Thanksgiving, and 71 million of those people driving, you can expect to see more cars on the roads. AAA Tidewater, though, wants to remind you that there are ways to avoid traffic this holiday season, even with an increase of 1.7 million people traveling for the holiday.
Just over 2 million of those travelers are Virginians, with 1.9 million of them driving to their destination.
While there are plenty of people staying home this Thanksgiving, some, such as David Archer of Portsmouth, are braving the crowds…