Plane ticket costs ramp up *seriously* around right now. Getting a ticket around a month after this relative time last DLC would have cost me 400-450$ range, IIRC. Getting them within a month or going(Nearest time I might be able to have enough cash, *maybe*) isn't going to work.
Bus costs 200$ and Greyhound has done badly enough in recent years so that they're consistent about that(because to be otherwise=corporate suicide). They have a time ramp up too but it's 14 days, not months, so that's easy to deal with.
So yeah I could have pulled it off if I'd gotten, you know. Money, in the last year. I suppose I could have passed up getting a Wii at all and tried saving since then but too late to worry about that now.