[ 2020 ] How soon would you travel again

[kckaren21]

I feel comfortable driving and controlling our exposure, as someone else noted above.

We are considering going out on our family boat with my parents for a few days, and also a long weekend at a friend's 2nd home in late April/early May, both driving trips less than 2 hours away. We will drive to Oregon for an RV trip in mid-June.

We are booked in Harborside in October, but purchased trip insurance, in case we decide to cancel. I hope we don't have to, we love it there!

 

[TTSDavid]

What I see is that destinations that were once the focus of pandemic such as Milan and New York have already lowered their cases. In addition, there are more and more advances in terms of the vaccine. I have hope that soon we will be able to travel again. The way to travel will be different, but we will adapt, as we have done with previous incidents.

 

[TravelTime]

It is already possible to travel with safety guidelines in place. I imagine by next summer, most places will be open and lots of people will be traveling again.

 

[JeffW]

It is already possible to travel with safety guidelines in place. I imagine by next summer, most places will be open and lots of people will be traveling again.

I'm not so sure. If you go back 2/4/6 months, and look at what the predictions were then, 2/4/6 months in the future, how accurate have they been? I remember the "second wave" was supposed to come in the Fall, when flu season kicked in. Instead, the 2nd wave was a bigger spike that happened in the Summer.
And for all the talk of when a vaccine will be released (the supposed cure-all), there's still questions on how many will take it, when it becomes available for anyone who wants to take it.

One would think it should be better (in a relative sense) than this past Summer. But when will it how it was better (ie. all the attractions and other amenities you go away for, actually available)? I don't know.

Jeff

 

[JohnPaul]

We are back to our normal (busy) travel schedule. However, we enjoy driving to and being at different places and don’t need a lot of “things to do”.

As such, we feel it’s almost as safe as home. We cook in our timeshares and walk and hang out.

We have had to give up one of our favorites- New York City. No Broadway and our owners lounge (where we love interacting with staff and other guests) is closed.

We normally travel to the NW for family Christmas but I don’t think that kind of gathering is going to be safe this year.

 

[CalGalTraveler]

I am going to visit my son this fall using a short SWA flight. Will also get that companion pass deal for skiing or Hawaii Jan/Feb so worth the risk. I've never seen fares this low to my son's destination and covid is low there.

 

[pedro47]

No travel for 2020.
We would like to travel & drive somewhere within a four (4) hours driving range. Somewhere, within the states of Virginia or North Carolina or even maybe even Washington, DC.

 

[clifffaith]

Well, the fires put the kybosh to our end of September first-trip-of-the-year. Hoping for Palm Springs & Carlsbad in October, with plenty of social distancing (although I'll get right up next to you at the bakery counter at Sherman's Deli, so look out!).

 

[Glenn2]

We are resuming travel at the end of the year with a trip to Ft. Lauderdale. That's a 4 hour drive. For 2021 there are 4 trips and 1 cruise tentatively planned.

 

[CPNY]

I hope no one wants to travel all next year and capacity is as reduced as it is now. It’s amazing being places that are empty

 

[jabberwocky]

86 days until we fly to Palm Springs for a week and then six days in Vegas. I figure if we have to quarantine on return to Canada we will make good use of our time out of the country. We also have a few days booked in the BC mountains during November from a free II AC.

Edited to add: I just noticed @CPNY just changed his avatar!

 

[CPNY]

86 days until we fly to Palm Springs for a week and then six days in Vegas. I figure if we have to quarantine on return to Canada make good use of our time out of the country. We also have a few days booked in the BC mountains during November from a free II AC.

Edited to add: I just noticed @CPNY just changed his avatar!

I did! I was feeling a little Thailand-ish.

 

[TravelTime]

The answer to this question for the vast majority of people has turned out to be: ASAP

 

[joestein]

I would not travel internationally. We were considering renting a week from an owner at Divi Little Bay in St. Marin. However, our concern about getting stuck in St. Martin if we fail a covid test changed our mind.

Instead we rented a week from owner at Marriot Ocean Watch in Myrtle Beach. I am really waiting to see how the cruises go. Those are my favorite vacations.

 

[PigsDad]

We never stopped traveling.

Kurt

 

[Brett]

We never stopped traveling.

Kurt

same here but most of the travel was in-state
(and going to Florida last winter

 

[PigsDad]

same here but most of the travel was in-state
(and going to Florida last winter

Let's see. We had driving trips (all out of state) in July and September, plus we flew in August, September, November, December, February, March and May. Never had any issues.

Kurt

 

[Passepartout]

Interesting looking back at the posts from 2020.

 

[Luanne]

First scheduled trip to Rhode Island and NYC in October. We're watching the Delta variant to see how things go.

Second scheduled trip to Maui in March, 2022.

 

[x3 skier]

We never stopped traveling.

Kurt

Nor I. Maryland, Chicago(2), Florida (Seaplane flying), PV Mexico, St Louis (picked up my Seaplane rating), Cincinnati (multiple times.

No problem and nice to fly empty airplanes.

Cheers

 

[geist1223]

In my previous post in 2020 I said we had not cancelled our June trip to Canada or our September trip to Kaua'i. Those did get cancelled but not by our choice. This year we have traveled - Feburary 3 week to San Jose del Cabo; May 3 week road trip from Home (Salem Or) to Heber Overgaard Az and Tucson via Reno and Las Vegas; and, June 2 week trip to Windsor Ca. We have a 2 week trip to Victoria BC scheduled for September and it looks like Canada may open the Land Border in late August for fully vaccinated folks.