“Gobble, gobble.” That’s what the (very helpful and friendly) lady at the Post Office said to me last Friday as I posted a package for a friend. Thankfully I heard her say it to a couple of customers before me so I wasn’t as taken aback as when I first heard it–I think I would have (rudely) laughed in her face. This is my second Thanksgiving in America but the first time I’ve heard that. “Gobble. Gobble.” I feel like I’m doing a cameo for Sesame Street. As everyone firms up plans for Thanksgiving the supermarkets are filled with cans of pumpkin and turkeys. Signs saying “It’s baking season” with pre-prepared pie crusts, pie fillings, creams and marshmallows are lined up in prominent positions. At upmarket supermarket Gelsons they even have thanksgiving-inspired cakes—turkeys, corn-on-the-cobs and pumpkins. Yes, I’m serious. Told you. Thanksgiving is America’s only four-day weekend so it’s their longest holiday in the year. Yep, it’s big: bigger than Christmas and Easter. So it’s no surprise that Thanksgiving is the most popular time of the year to travel and most chaotic for airports and the roads. Last year we stayed home but this year we’re braving the roads …