MILWAUKEE — Ahead of what’s already expected to be a busy two weeks of travel across Wisconsin, with long holiday weekends on the horizon for both Christmas and New Year’s Day, falling gas prices could be the catalyst to getting even more Wisconsinites out on the roads.

“There’s a lot of good news at the gas pumps,” said Nick Jarmusz, AAA’s director of public affairs for Wisconsin, Illinois and Indiana. “We’re averaging about $2.75/gallon across the state, and lower in the southern and eastern portions of the state, and that’s about $0.30/gallon below where we were last month.”

While AAA anticipates the second-highest year-end holiday travel totals ever nationwide, with roughly 115 million Americans traveling 50 miles or more in the next couple of weeks, air travel totals are expected to be overall record-breakers.

“We’ve seen record or near-record travel for all the major holidays that we track, both through the summer months and Thanksgiving,” Jarmusz said. “It really does show that a lot of those pandemic-related issues are in the rearview mirror.”

Watch the full interview above.