--- ---  # Google's Christmas Doodle Feels Your Holiday Travel Pain  by [Nolan Feeney](https://time.com/author/nolan-feeney/)  ## Nolan Feeney Dec 25, 2014 5:00 PM UTC  Google  by [Nolan Feeney](https://time.com/author/nolan-feeney/)  ## Nolan Feeney Dec 25, 2014 5:00 PM UTC Getting to loved ones during the holidays isn’t always easy. Google feels your pain, so for its Christmas Day doodle, the company made a short animated tribute to all the ways travelers find a way home — by car boat, plane, skateboard, snowboard, subway, camel or even a school bus. Sometimes you have to brave the elements, and sometimes you have to brave a sea of inattentive pedestrians texting and walking at the same time. Check out the adorable clip on [Google’s homepage](http://www.google.com). Christmas: Google's Doodle Feels Your Holiday Travel Pain ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/3647117/google-doodle-christmas/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3647117/google-doodle-christmas/"},"headline":"Google's Christmas Doodle Feels Your Holiday Travel Pain","datePublished":"2014-12-25T17:00:19.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:15:32.638Z","description":"The short animation celebrates the lengths we travel for family","url":"https://time.com/3647117/google-doodle-christmas/","keywords":["Newsfeed","viral","Art","Tech","Google Doodle","Companies"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blta2533f8941d7a0b8/69877731e20a875692a843b2/google-doodle-christmas.png?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Nolan Feeney","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/nolan-feeney/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blta2533f8941d7a0b8/69877731e20a875692a843b2/google-doodle-christmas.png?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"google-doodle-christmas","caption":"","creditText":"Google","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/3647117/google-doodle-christmas/","name":"Google's Christmas Doodle Feels Your Holiday Travel Pain"}}]}] ```