For your comfort - drive down with someone, have that someone drive you home. You may have to stop a lot - you'll be gassy - which is really uncomfortable, unless you walk. A bus or plane would be brutal after surgery.

Take the train or drive.

I asked my surgeon about visiting friends 3 weeks after the surgery and he immediately asked how I was planning to travel. When I said train, he calmed down as he was concerned about blood clots forming if I was sitting in a tight airplane seat and unable to move around for a few hours. On the train, you can walk and are always only a few feet away from bathrooms.

I would take the train or have a friend drive you. I agree with bejeweled about being on a plane and you would have to get up and move around to prevent clots, plus the chance of passing gas on the plane.....least when you are in a car, can make stops here and there to get out and walk about. Have a two hour drive from Corpus to San Antonio and back again afterwards with two small dogs in tow. Sounds like its going to be a Griswald trip LOL!!!

Thanks for the good advice........if only there were trains where I live in the southwest! The options are bus, car, or plane. Can't really expect a friend to take 4-5 days to do this, so think I'll just drive down, and pay for someone to fly down and drive me back.