In my head I'm kind of assuming people will be able to loosen things up a bit in July and August, but by the fall we'll need to reign it in again. This isn't based on any facts other than my own. LOL So...I'm hoping my July beach trip is a go, but mentally preparing to cancel my September cruise.
We were supposed to leave for Mexico on Tuesday, so that was clearly cancelled. We didn’t take the refund in airline points for now and are instead trying to go through our credit card for a refund since it was cancelled by the airline and not us. If that doesn’t go through then we will settle for the points and likely rebook the same trip for next March.
We have flights booked to go visit my FIL in Ontario in August. Not sure we’ll feel comfortable with air travel by then even if it is domestic, so we’re just waiting to see how things go and we’ll decide closer to. He’s supposed to be coming here for our twins bday in June and I doubt that will happen.
We already had a June beach weekend trip planned that probably will be cancelled. And we have a July trip planned that maybe we can still go on (driving to a socially distanced location), but we will cancel if needed. That’s as far as we had gotten with planning and likely we won’t plan anything else until the pandemic peak is over in the U.S.
Every other year we try to go to Cancun for fall break but we haven't booked yet. We stay at a certain resort and I'm wondering if we will even be able to get in because of all the people that are probably rescheduling their trips? The tickets there are very cheap right now so I might as well book those and get a credit if we have to change the dates. We will definitely need a vacation by then! Other than that I'm sure we will do a weekend in the mountains or something this summer if we can.
In my head I'm kind of assuming people will be able to loosen things up a bit in July and August, but by the fall we'll need to reign it in again. This isn't based on any facts other than my own. LOL So...I'm hoping my July beach trip is a go, but mentally preparing to cancel my September cruise.
That's what I'm thinking. We haven't booked anything but we always take a family vacation the week leading into Labor Day, which is late this year (9/7). If we are brave enough to book something, I sure as hell will not be booking plane tickets; it will be driving-distance vacations only for a long while for us, I suspect. I'm just too afraid of getting stuck somewhere and unable to return home.
I'm even thinking back to just over a year ago how DH and I spent our 10-year anniversary in Prague with the kids staying with my ILs. Certainly a global pandemic never entered our mind then. Right now I can't even fathom ever leaving them for a vacation like that again for any length of time while they're young.
Next month dream trip to Peru, which I am probably going to reschedule for July and cross my fingers.
September Colombia for my h's very close friend's wedding and October Spain for my friend's wedding. These would also be the first trips my h and I will be able to take together as we have been waiting for his green card.
I’ve never understood the appeal of a cruise and what has happened in recent months has solidified the fact that I will never set foot on a cruise ship.
We have summer plans in Calistoga and Lake Tahoe but both are just a drive so we don’t really need to commit or cancel at this point.
We are hoping to do Christmas in Colorado but we do that most years and usually buy tickets/ make arrangements in August/September. We will reassess the situation then.
I’m thinking no. I just think this year will be about hunkering down and surviving.
It’s frustrating because we were able to come up with the money for travel despite some setbacks. But we are thankful H still has a job (for now), and we’re not comfortable spending on “nice to haves,” even though travel is the #1 thing we love to do as a family.
Well my entire extended family always take a trip together in the beginning of August.... not sure if that will still happen. These trips are always within driving distance.
H, DS and I had tentatively planned to visit H's family in AZ in October, but I think we'll hold off on plane travel until there's a vaccine.
We usually go to Red Lodge over 4th of July, but we probably weren't going to be able to due to my internship. Now that I've realized my internship might be cancelled or moved remote that would be we would have the time to go, but if those things happen that probably means travel is a no-go so just call me Alanis Morissette.
As much as I love to travel I can’t even think about that right now!
I don’t know if it’s because we are in the center of the crisis, but I can’t even imagine thinking about travel and I love traveling more than anything. I wouldn’t put money down on any trip for 2020. Fauci’s face on the today show this morning spoke volumes.
We have airfare booked for Iceland in September (assuming this will be cancelled/moved) We have a dive liveaboard and airfare booked for Thailand booked over Christmas. (This I’ll be most disappointed about if it’s a no go - booked the dive portion in Aug last year) We have deposit down for Bonaire at the end of a June (highly doubt this is will go as planned - probably move to 2021)
We are supposed to be in Bonaire over Memorial Day ☹️
I don’t know if it’s because we are in the center of the crisis, but I can’t even imagine thinking about travel and I love traveling more than anything. I wouldn’t put money down on any trip for 2020. Fauci’s face on the today show this morning spoke volumes.
Are you in NY? I’m in Nola, we jumped to over 9k cases today and my H working with it daily, I just can’t think past this, although I’m doing much better with coping.
Yes, it’s scary and I can’t even think 2 months ahead, one day at a time. People are talking about going out, eating at restaurants and so on after this is done, but what does it mean done/over? The virus isn’t leaving in 30 days. I can’t imagine when things can be even semi-normal. Not trying to be a downer, just being realistic.
Yes, it’s scary and I can’t even think 2 months ahead, one day at a time. People are talking about going out, eating at restaurants and so on after this is done, but what does it mean done/over? The virus isn’t leaving in 30 days. I can’t imagine when things can be even semi-normal. Not trying to be a downer, just being realistic.
No, I get it. I’m there with you.
I'm with both of you as well. In reality all I want is a night out with DH, but the thought of waiting in a long line at a crowded restaurant after this is "done" makes me sick to my stomach. I guess I'm trying to be optimistic that this will ever come to an end, but with the threat of a resurgence (is that even the right word anymore?) makes me afraid to get on a plane. After reading the stuff on here I don't want to go anywhere that's had a huge influx, esp anywhere that hasn't taken stay in place seriously. I don't want people coming to my area, my old job has become a temporary morgue because they anticipate a huge spike in cases and deaths mid-April. I guess I'm just so used to planning a trip this time of year that I had to hear from someone else tell me that I have to get that out of my head. I'm trying to take it day to day, hour to hour since each day feels like it's three days in one, but the thought of being on a beach instead of starring at my kitchen sink is appealing.
Also again because of the way DH plans vacation we have to face the reality that he'll have time off he can't move, to not do anything. I know a lot of you here are in that same boat, and that really sucks.
Post by Shreddingbetty on Apr 2, 2020 18:07:11 GMT -5
I’m scheduled to fly to Paris on July 3rd to drop off my kid for camp. Then again on August 2nd to spend all of August in Europe to see friends and family. I’m going to be really upset if this is till going on then and I can’t go mostly because I really won’t have any opportunity to go see my friends and family until next summer if this gets canceled. Plus I’m gonna hate having to stay in town all summer. The good thing is that I only have flights booked as I usually stay with family and any potential side trips I usually book later. I think my sister said she had to use her canceled flights within 9 months of booking them although not sure how that would work as I booked mine in February for July and August and won’t know about until much closer. I guess we will see. Nothing I can do about it obviously. But I’m really keeping my fingers crossed that this will have mellowed out and even disappeared more or less like the flu and most respiratory viruses do in the summer.
We have a road trip planned to visit family, but dates are flexible, and nothing is booked yet. We would stay with family, but visit Kansas City, MO, also. So would need to purchase event tickets, etc.
Basically the Spring Break trip we canceled for this year might happen this fall or next spring (planning around the virus and the weather.)
We have airfare booked for Iceland in September (assuming this will be cancelled/moved) We have a dive liveaboard and airfare booked for Thailand booked over Christmas. (This I’ll be most disappointed about if it’s a no go - booked the dive portion in Aug last year) We have deposit down for Bonaire at the end of a June (highly doubt this is will go as planned - probably move to 2021)
We are supposed to be in Bonaire over Memorial Day ☹️
😢 I’m sad for you. I love Bonaire - I hope you get to reschedule for later in the year.
Post by wanderingback on Apr 2, 2020 20:55:43 GMT -5
I was about to say hell no to travel in 2020 even though it's my most favorite thing in the world, but then I literally just remembered I'm supposed to be running the Berlin marathon at the end of September. If the world hasn't ended by then (and my salary increases like it's supposed to do) and they don't cancel the race I do think I'd like to still go. Working on the front lines in the hardest hit area right now things do seem rather bleak, but I'm trying to keep my optimism about me to make it through, one day at a time.
I had a bunch of jaunts to Disney World tentatively planned since I bought an annual pass in January. Now I feel like I would not be able to live with the guilt if something happened to us while traveling. I already dragged my family through that unfortunate ordeal when I got hospitalized in the ICU while on vacation in Chicago a few years ago. Everyone had to fly in to accommodate my illness and deal with caring for my DD who was 2.5 at the time. It was a very scary time for all of us. It made me not want to travel internationally anymore because I wouldn't want to chance ending up like that in a foreign medical system. But in my mind, I could still handle domestic since I knew how to navigate the US healthcare system. Now I turn on the news and feel like we sound like a third world country. I may have to just let the pass go if things don't seem to resemble normal by the end of summer.
I’m assuming all of our trips for scheduled events in June / July are cancelled. I really want to fly home to see my family though. If we aren’t working/WFH/there’s no summer camp/ daycare (worst case scenario) but if it’s safe, we could take a road trip instead of flying and stay there all summer. My mom was dx’d with a neurological disease recently and my grandma is in the hospital alone right now (not Covid). My sister is super bummed her summer away at university in an awesome location is not happening (and we can’t visit her there). It’s times like this I wish I could live near them. We also might make up our shorter planned spring break road trip to Phoenix and the Grand Canyon to visit family, and we had a shorter road trip wedding to attend that rescheduled to October. We were intentionally skipping Disneyland this year but now that everything else is cancelled and my kids will spend their bdays in quarantine, we’ll probably take a day trip.
My kids go to a 2 week sleep away camp over the summer. I'm assuming it will be cancelled. So I'm daydreaming about taking them to Europe in late July; maybe Amsterdam and train into Cologne to see western Germany. My travel daydreams are keeping me sane. Also thinking it might be a good time to revisit London; it may not be as crowded as it normally is in the summer. And head up to Scotland (we have never been) We are supposed to go to Boston for a week in October and I'm thinking that will still happen.
We put our dog down days before travel restrictions went into place. With DS's health and our aging dog, we've put travel on hold for the last couple of years. Normally we're flying around the world. It's a big part of our lifestyle. Once we put our dog down the plan was to book a big trip. DH really wanted to return to Asia.
I feel so trapped right now. I'm constantly reminding myself that we are lucky we can stay home and remain safe. But oh my gosh, travel used to define us. I'm heartbroken that our life has been paused for an unknown period of time.
I don't see us going anywhere for a long while. And when we do eventually travel, we'll probably (initially) stick to a domestic location like Hawaii or Guam so we feel secure with medical access.