I wonder how much of it is liability and legal out of the price.

Would give me something else good to make the inlaws shut up, since they ask why I don't just buy a plane and fly for fun..

Half of the guys in my wife's family (Father, uncles, cousins, brothers) are either politicians, or lawyers. And most of them are personal injury/product liability types, whose shenanigans have driven a lot of costs up for everyone.

The other half are rednecks and lumberjacks. It makes the holidays interesting.