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Price of gas will not dip below 4.50 for months. >> i don't really think the higher price of fuel is going to slow down many. it may slow down some, but certainly there's still a very healthy appetite to hit the road this summer. >> you ready for school, baby girl? >> reporter: not so for eric stevens says he's choosing to pay for his daughter's day care over a road trip. >> the fun has been postponed for the indefinite future, specially the way things are going. while i would like to say there's an end in sight, i just don't see one. >> some perspective for you, the national average for a gal...

>> reporter: it's salty right now, brianna. the traffic is building here on interstate 395 along with the expense of this big holiday weekend. the national average of a gallon of regular just hit $4.60 a gone, but it is not just gas, it is food, hotels, airfare. this big weekend is only just the start. single day eric stevens says he makes $110,000 a year but even that is not enough to afford a trip to the lake. here in los angeles $6 a gallon gas has kept his plans in park. >> maybe for the affluent they can afford t but for me to go anywhere is minimum a $200 dec decision. >> reporter: weeke...

>> this will likely be one of the most expensive memorial day travel periods we have ever seen. >> reporter: still aaa thinks americans will not be stopped. traveling to top destinations like orlando, seattle, miami and las vegas. the latest projection $34.9 million people will drive 50 miles or more over the five days of memorial days. >> do you think that the numbers will be that far off from the projection? >> our projections have been pretty accurate but we have never been trying to project in an environment like this. >> reporter: the new fear is this expensive start to summer travel coul...

According to the US Travel Association, about six in 10 Americans are planning at least one summer trip.

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