paigepea
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Post by paigepea on Feb 15, 2021 14:31:46 GMT
We currently have the lake booked for the summer.
Our current health order would not allow us to go (we aren’t allowed recreational travel even out of our health authority within our province) but I anticipate that will change as our hospitalization continue to drop.
Right now, if we travel out of country, we are required to quarantine in a gov’t approved hotel for 3 days at a huge expensive while we await a proper Covid test result so we can’t do that. Then we need to quarantine for another 11 days at home so no work / school. It would cost us 8,000 to quarantine our family of 4 (2 grand per person). The gov’t is really trying to deter anyone from entering the country because of these new Covid strains. So no travel for us until we’ve all vaccinated and the quarantine rules associated with travel are lifted. Our gov’t is also against domestic travel as other provinces have greater Covid issues. One province has cancelled spring break to stop travel. I imagine I’ll be vaccinated by summer. But my kids have to await trials on children so I don’t think they’ll be vaccinated until fall. Our goal is to travel winter 2022.
ETA : our gov’t has also made local airlines stop flights to certain sun destinations to reduce travel during spring break as many don’t listen to health order. I find it interesting that so many pees are travelling. I don’t know anyone here who is travelling for recreation.
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Post by rymeswithpurple on Feb 15, 2021 14:41:35 GMT
Would I like to? Absolutely. Are we going to? Not likely anytime soon.
We have a laundry list of places we'd like to visit (South Carolina; Tennessee/Mississippi; the Dakotas, Montana, and Wyoming; Calgary; Cleveland/Canton; Toronto; Boston; and the Adirondacks), but I don't know when we will do any of them just because we are exceedingly cautious with everything we do. I've been work from home since last March and only go to the grocery store every week and that's it. My husband works every other week from home. We shower after we get home from anywhere, always have our masks on when we go out, keep hand sanitizer in the car, etc.
Even for Thanksgiving this past year, we drove 4 hours to my parents' house and stayed only about 3 hours, drove to his dad's, stayed about 3 hours there, and then drove home. It was exhausting. We didn't go to see them for Christmas.
So while I would love to go to any and all of those places, I have no idea when we will travel again.
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Post by guzismom on Feb 15, 2021 14:49:12 GMT
I had my annual SCUBA trip planned for March; however, I just rebooked it for the same time frame next year.
Right now we have no plans to travel. If things change (meaning, widespread vaccination and travel restrictions to Europe lifted), we may go see our daughter in the late fall/early winter in France.
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Post by paperaddictedpea on Feb 15, 2021 14:49:29 GMT
We are going to NY (Syracuse) this summer for me to undergo IVF. Hardly a vacation and the only place we’ll be is our car, the hotel, and the clinic. Would love to sight see but if rates are in July what they are now, it’s irresponsible to do so. Best of luck to you! I live in a suburb of Syracuse so let me know if you have any questions about the area.
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Just T
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Post by Just T on Feb 15, 2021 14:54:29 GMT
I am going to go to the beach. Not sure where, but somewhere within driving distance, so probably the Florida panhandle or Gulf Shores. I plan to rent a house in an area that is quiet, not touristy. I will take my food, etc with me, and just stay in the house I rent, go for walks on the beach, sit by the pool, and read. I don't care if I see another soul. I might allow my daughters to go with me. LOL
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Post by paperaddictedpea on Feb 15, 2021 15:01:47 GMT
I’m hoping to go to Maine for a week in October. I’d likely take my mom with me as she loves it there and hasn’t been there in a long time. She’s fully vaccinated and I will be by then (first shot scheduled for next week.) I tend to spend most of my time there walking along the shore or reading by the cove; sometimes taking scenic drives since my mom has mobility issues and can’t walk long distances. I’m really only only around others for significant amounts of time in enclosed areas in restaurants, and could always do takeout if I didn’t feel comfortable with indoor dining.
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Post by maryland on Feb 15, 2021 15:03:25 GMT
Yes, we are going to the beach for 2 weeks. We went last year too. We were going back and forth last year because of covid, but my husband was not happy about giving up his beach vacation. Although I have to laugh, all he does is sit up in our condo and watches tv all afternoon. I am the only one of the 5 of us to spend a lot of time out at the beach as opposed to doing what they do at home (watch tv or be on their phones watching tik toks). We could do that at home and save lots of money! I liked the beach a lot more when the kids were little and would go down tot he beach and have fun (not be on their phones all day long).
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garcia5050
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Jun 25, 2014 23:22:29 GMT
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Post by garcia5050 on Feb 15, 2021 15:15:28 GMT
We are doing what we did last summer. We got a seasonal site at a lake seasonal campground and parked our RV there and spent every weekend and a couple of weeks out there. I'm excited to do the same thing again. We stayed away from the beach because there were too many people, and we've been isolating the past 11 months, but it was wonderful anyway. I haven’t finished reading all the replies, but what? What is this? I’ve never heard of this. I thought all the campsites have some rule about how stays can’t extend x days (30?). Even snowbirds have to move sites every 30 days. I’m in California and have only traveled with my trailer to California and Nevada. What state is this? Is it a privately run site?
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Post by Mel on Feb 15, 2021 15:30:34 GMT
I want to SO BAD!!! I miss traveling too!! Weekend getaways were our main travel. We would just hop in the car and go to St. Louis to a ballgame, or to St. Joseph to visit my oldest DD at school. Even just to go to Des Moines to a car show or another city within a couple of hours. We actually had a trip to Springfield, MO planned last spring to go to Scrapbook Generation (and SO would go to the big BassPro there) but we had to indefinitely postpone because Covid hit.
Hopefully as more and more people are getting vaxxed we can resume some of those things.
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Post by walkerdill on Feb 15, 2021 15:31:56 GMT
My sister rented a cabin in Gatlinburg, TN. in March. My sister & brothers family are all coming. My mom & dad are flying in. I'm driving with my kid & boyfriend.
I also have a cruise booked for September but who knows if that's gonna actually happen 🤷
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Post by sam9 on Feb 15, 2021 15:49:38 GMT
We don’t have any vacation plans for this year. It’s highly unlikely that we will be vaccinated before fall and in any case summer doesn’t work for us (sports and our jobs). But we’ve booked a family experience for January 2022, a very long cruise. The DH and I are taking sabbaticals and I’ll homeschool on the ship. We want to try and make up for lost time. We’re mentally prepared this may not happen but we really need something exciting to look forward to
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Post by busy on Feb 15, 2021 15:52:49 GMT
We have a vacation rental in the Wallowas in July. It's remote - on large acreage so we won't be around others. We'll be hiking and birding, so not around others then either. We'll take most of our groceries with us; we should only need to go to the gas station once and probably a grocery store once. I feel good about it. We did something very similar last year. We were not behaviorally doing anything different than we are at home, but having a different location had some major mental health benefits.
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Nanner
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Post by Nanner on Feb 15, 2021 16:27:25 GMT
We are doing what we did last summer. We got a seasonal site at a lake seasonal campground and parked our RV there and spent every weekend and a couple of weeks out there. I'm excited to do the same thing again. We stayed away from the beach because there were too many people, and we've been isolating the past 11 months, but it was wonderful anyway. I haven’t finished reading all the replies, but what? What is this? I’ve never heard of this. I thought all the campsites have some rule about how stays can’t extend x days (30?). Even snowbirds have to move sites every 30 days. I’m in California and have only traveled with my trailer to California and Nevada. What state is this? Is it a privately run site? No, most provinces and states have seasonal sites. You pay an annual fee - i.e. we pay about $4,000 for the year. It's only open May-September, but we keep it there year round. We have built a couple of decks, put up a gazebo, there's a boat dock and launch for those who keep boats. We have kayaks, and there's a place to store those as well. It's great. It also has a small general store (that was closed last summer due to COVID). And there's no setting up! We travel about an hour to get there.
Last year was our first year, but we plan on staying because it was so wonderful last year. My bff and her dh got a spot for this summer, and we're super excited about that.
They are privately owned and run. We are in Alberta.
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Peal
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Post by Peal on Feb 15, 2021 16:30:00 GMT
We haven't made any plans, but that doesn't mean we won't do something later in the year. We do have plans for next February. DH has a conference and I am going with him. And I would like to go someplace warm over Christmas, but I'm afraid that's what everyone will want to do and the crowds will be bigger than usual and I don't like crowds.
I don't think I want to travel as much as I want to the option to travel.
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Nanner
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Post by Nanner on Feb 15, 2021 16:32:36 GMT
We are doing what we did last summer. We got a seasonal site at a lake seasonal campground and parked our RV there and spent every weekend and a couple of weeks out there. I'm excited to do the same thing again. We stayed away from the beach because there were too many people, and we've been isolating the past 11 months, but it was wonderful anyway. We’ve had a seasonal camp site that we’ve parked our RV at in Wisconsin since 1997. We love it. It’s open May-October. We are semi retired so we were able to stay there quite a lot. It was wonderful. Ours is only open May-September, which is too bad, because we often have beautiful weather in October in Alberta. We've only been there a year, but will be staying.
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Post by kelly8875 on Feb 15, 2021 16:37:11 GMT
Yes, current plans will be the same as last summer. Road trip out of state, to a remote lake. We stay in a cabin, and barely see other people while we fish, read, and relax. As long as things don't get worse, we will still go.
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Post by ajsweetpea on Feb 15, 2021 16:40:08 GMT
I would love to rent a cabin at a lake this summer and drive there, so nothing crazy far away. I think that would be a safe way to get away. We could enjoy some nature. I am not ready yet to travel by plane but me and my best friend are planning to do a fun vacation together with both our families once Covid is in the rear view mirror. So I can look forward to that in the future. It’s really easy to get sad about missing out on things but I’m doing my best to stay positive!
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Post by birukitty on Feb 15, 2021 16:49:03 GMT
No plans until we are vaccinated and I don’t expect that to happen any time soon. We are really over due for a vacation. This is my answer too. I'm in the last tier to be vaccinated in my county so I don't expect that to happen until late this summer or even this fall. When we do go on a vacation it'll probably be overseas somewhere (Hawaii or Europe) so that will depend on how things are going in the rest of the world and where we decide to go. I don't think we'll be able to vacation until next year.
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Post by chaosisapony on Feb 15, 2021 16:52:31 GMT
Very loosely planning a road trip to the beach with some friends for mid-summer. If we don't go it won't be because of covid, it'll be because my friends are flakes.
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Dalai Mama
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Post by Dalai Mama on Feb 15, 2021 16:53:37 GMT
You mean, am I expecting the world to be out of the toilet before 2022?
Uhm, no.
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Post by tuva42 on Feb 15, 2021 17:18:10 GMT
We traveled this year already. Shut down my shop and we went off the Hilton Head with our 2 young adult daughters. We drove there, stayed in a duplex, walked on the beach, rode bikes, ate at restaurants with patios, did a little bit of shopping in mostly empty shopping areas. Wore our masks everywhere.
We probably won't travel again this, but mostly because of my responsibilities at my shop and my youngest daughter's grad school schedule, but also because we don't want to travel anywhere there will be crowds. We really, really loved taking a winter break and we are thinking about doing that again in 2022.
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Post by catmom on Feb 15, 2021 17:18:15 GMT
Planning might be a little optimistic, let’s say hoping. But in June we’re looking at renting an RV or lake cabin in our province. Basically we’re hoping to do some exploring and hiking locally.
All of Canada is supposed to be vaccinated by end of September, so depending on what the world is looking like, what’s happening with variants and if the Canadian travel restrictions have been lifted - we would like to rent a place in Aruba in late October or over Christmas. That’s a lot of ifs though so I’m not holding my breath.
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Post by Cupcake on Feb 15, 2021 17:20:43 GMT
We aren’t planning to go anywhere except for our lake house, which is less than an hour from home. We do not rent it out or share it with anyone, so it’s basically just our family going from one view to another (prettier!) one. We have plenty to do there (boating, tubing, swimming, kayaking, canoeing, stand up paddle boarding...), so we’re very lucky. It has saved my sanity through this whole pandemic.
We are hoping to be able to have visitors, but that is depending on where we are with vaccines. Fingers crossed!
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Post by MadamG2U on Feb 15, 2021 17:32:27 GMT
I have booked my family parents brother and niece for Disney in August. We will bring our food and spend the time in the villa.
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Post by compeateropeator on Feb 15, 2021 18:03:56 GMT
I chose other. I will probably take most of my longer vacations at our family camp this summer and fall. It is one of my favorite places, instate, and takes me less than 1.5 hours to get there.
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Post by seaexplore on Feb 15, 2021 18:20:38 GMT
My plan is the lake 5 min from my house with the kids and husband and our boat. Same as last summer. We haven’t shut it down for the last 11 months to mess it up for our family now. Hopefully DH and I can get vaccinated so we can see my parents who are due for a second vaccine next week.
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Post by scrappert on Feb 15, 2021 18:23:48 GMT
I have a 2 week sabbatical at work for being here 20 years. I have to use it before June. I want to see my Dad since I haven't seen him since 2019 when he had surgery and he lives far away. I was hoping to have my vaccine and him to have his and then I could go see him, but not sure that will all happen before I need to use this sabbatical. Not to say that I don't have 4 more weeks of vacation I can use later....
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Post by KikiPea on Feb 15, 2021 18:28:31 GMT
Yes, and I said road trip only, but that’s in a couple weeks. I am supposed to attend She Loves Color in WI, unless it goes virtual again. If it doesn’t, I will be flying.
We are also trying to plan an anniversary trip for our anniversary in late Oct. We have a few different options we are throwing around, but no idea of any of them will pan out.
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Post by luckyjune on Feb 15, 2021 18:57:53 GMT
We have a family trip to Disney World over Christmas on the books. We'll be traveling with our adult children and their SOs. If things are not drastically improved, we'll cancel, just like we did with Hawaii last Christmas. We'll stay at Disney properties (we usually try to stay at two each trip).
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Post by stittsygirl on Feb 15, 2021 19:16:07 GMT
We have an Alaskan cruise booked for September, going with my dad who has wanted to take me and my husband on a cruise for a long time (husband has spent most of the last 3.5 years in Afghanistan so our travel opportunities had been limited in the couple of years before COVID). But that’s still on hold of course .
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