U.S. Thanksgiving Holiday Travel Starts

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U.S. Thanksgiving Holiday Travel Starts

Americans headed for airports, train stations and highways Wednesday, many of them confident and others nervous on the first major holiday travel period since the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks.

Americans headed for airports, train stations and highways Wednesday, many of them confident and others nervous on the first major holiday travel period since the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks. "I am nervous, a little jittery," said Beverly Pincus, 71, of Chicago. She checked in for a flight to Boston, where the planes that destroyed the World Trade Center took off. "That makes me more nervous," she said.

Across the country, airports were crowded, train stations were filled and highways were jammed �� even though the AAA predicted a 6% decline in Thanksgiving holiday travel this year.

"There's no safer place than with my mommy right now and I'm 28 years old," said Karyn Capele, who was traveling by bus from Detroit to New York's Long Island.

AAA said it expects a record 87% of this year's Thanksgiving travel to be by automobile.