Nearly 82 million Americans are expected to travel during the upcoming Thanksgiving holiday, according to estimates from AAA.

More specifically, AAA is projecting that 81.8 million people will travel at least 50 miles over the holiday period. The calculation does not just include Thanksgiving itself, which falls on Thursday, November 27. Rather, the holiday period is measured from Tuesday, November 25, through the weekend after Thanksgiving to Monday, December 1.

For greater perspective, AAA projected that 79.9 million traveled for the holidays last year, with the actual number resting around 80.2 million.

If the figure holds, it will result in the most travelers over the Thanksgiving holiday in the last seven years. In 2019, there were 77.8 million travelers, followed by a steep d

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