Before covid, I had to travel like 25% of my time. Via plane to our plant on Poland, but most of the time with the car to Mercedes in Sindelfingen here in Germany.
It sucked, because our cheap ass owner tried to avoid hotel costs. So when we had an appointment at 1pm in Sindelfingen, we had to get up early, drive there 6 hours, do the meetings, and drive 6 hours back the same day. Add to that extreme time pressure regarding the preparations (concepts, presentations etc), we often had to work till very late the day before.
Wasn't that much fun. Now thanks to covid, most of the stuff is being done remotely. Which is good for me, but bad for our business in the long term. Because the personal interaction, convincing them to trust us with their business, was a big part of our success.