# Do you have post-coronavirus vacation plans?

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**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [April 27, 2020, 4:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-have-post-coronavirus-vacation-plans/852676 "2020-04-27T16:08:44Z")\
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**Author:** ![pullin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/c57346/32.png) [@pullin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pullin)\
**Post date:** [April 28, 2020, 12:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-have-post-coronavirus-vacation-plans/852676/21 "2020-04-28T12:21:36Z")

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We moved our reservations for Big Bend to October. The shutdowns closed the park during our originally scheduled week. We’re still planning Palo Duro in early November, and I’m making tentative plans on annoying the deer population when the season opens. Nothing concrete there, still trying to get on a lease, buy another 4-wheeler, etc.

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**Post date:** [April 28, 2020, 12:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-have-post-coronavirus-vacation-plans/852676/22 "2020-04-28T12:41:31Z")

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I had a trip to the UK scheduled for late August but canceled. I’m looking at rebooking for May 2021.

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**Post date:** [April 28, 2020, 12:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-have-post-coronavirus-vacation-plans/852676/23 "2020-04-28T12:49:39Z")

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My dad and I were going to visit my sister and her husband in March in Louisiana. That fell through, we rescheduled for next week, cancelled that, so who knows?

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**Post date:** [April 28, 2020, 12:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-have-post-coronavirus-vacation-plans/852676/24 "2020-04-28T12:55:26Z")

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I was supposed to go to Germany in mid-August. I guess that’s done for.

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**Author:** ![MrAtoz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@MrAtoz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MrAtoz)\
**Post date:** [April 28, 2020, 1:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-have-post-coronavirus-vacation-plans/852676/25 "2020-04-28T13:09:17Z")

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My wife and I have had it in mind to drive Route 66 for awhile now. She retired a few months ago, not long before the coronavirus thing started, and we were tentatively planning the trip for this summer.

I suppose it will have to be put off. I’m also wondering how many of the little quirky tourist stops along Route 66, being essentially small businesses, will still be around when this is all over. ☹

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**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\
**Post date:** [April 28, 2020, 2:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-have-post-coronavirus-vacation-plans/852676/26 "2020-04-28T14:14:39Z")

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A lot of you are telling me about vacations that were cancelled because of the coronavirus, but what I am asking about are vacations you might want to take after this crisis is _over_.

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**Author:** ![kayaker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kayaker/32/441_2.png) [@kayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayaker)\
**Post date:** [April 28, 2020, 2:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-have-post-coronavirus-vacation-plans/852676/27 "2020-04-28T14:42:41Z")

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> [@Czarcasm](#):
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> vacations you might want to take after this crisis is _over_.

Ahhh, you’re one of those optimists who think this crisis will end.

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**Author:** ![The\_Stainless\_Steel\_Rat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/the_stainless_steel_rat/32/5727_2.png) [@The\_Stainless\_Steel\_Rat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Stainless_Steel_Rat)\
**Post date:** [April 28, 2020, 2:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-have-post-coronavirus-vacation-plans/852676/28 "2020-04-28T14:57:42Z")

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I had planned on a June-July trip on to the West Coast, making my way from Seattle to LA and then back home, but until the virus is contained and things open back up, that’s not going to happen. Still planning on that trip, but haven’t put any money down yet.

Friend of mine is trying to organize a European trip for a bunch of us next Spring which I want to do, but with things being so unsure I can’t commit to it.

But both trips (West Coast and Central Europe) are still on the to-do list and will be taken…whenever.

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**Author:** ![Fretful\_Porpentine](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fretful_porpentine/32/2873_2.png) [@Fretful\_Porpentine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fretful_Porpentine)\
**Post date:** [April 28, 2020, 3:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-have-post-coronavirus-vacation-plans/852676/29 "2020-04-28T15:05:27Z")

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> [@kayaker](#):
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> Ahhh, you’re one of those optimists who think this crisis will end.

😕 Every other epidemic has eventually ended, including ones that took place long before vaccines were a possibility. Why would this one be different from all the others?

Anyway: I’m going to visit my parents and my brother, in some order. Family first. And I was supposed to be leading the annual Honors College trip to Ireland this summer, so hopefully that will happen in 2021 instead. Other than that, I don’t really know? I went to the Yucatan and Chiapas last summer and loved it, so maybe some other parts of Mexico, but I think it will depend a lot on where things open up first.

But I definitely want to go to some places. I miss _places_.

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**Post date:** [April 28, 2020, 3:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-have-post-coronavirus-vacation-plans/852676/30 "2020-04-28T15:08:53Z")

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I wonder if it will be possible to travel to Greece? So inlove with these beautiful views there \<3

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**Post date:** [April 28, 2020, 3:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-have-post-coronavirus-vacation-plans/852676/31 "2020-04-28T15:12:03Z")

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Our April trip to Morocco was cancelled, I’m still working with the airline to get our refund/voucher so we’ll probably go there next April. If we’re able to travel during the holidays I’m looking to go somewhere warm and possibly tropical between Xmas and NYE. Next summer we might do a trip to Tokyo and hit Hawaii on the way back.

I still kill time on Google Flights mapping out trips to take on a long weekend, but I can’t trust any of the dates or prices at this point.

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**Post date:** [April 28, 2020, 3:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-have-post-coronavirus-vacation-plans/852676/32 "2020-04-28T15:49:43Z")

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> [@kayaker](#):
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> Ahhh, you’re one of those optimists who think this crisis will end.

> [@Fretful\_Porpentine](#):
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> 😕 Every other epidemic has eventually ended, including ones that took place long before vaccines were a possibility. Why would this one be different from all the others?

I was talking about the “crisis”, not the “epidemic”. Yes, the epidemic may end. The crisis, the economic recession/depression that follows, will IMO go on much longer.

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**Post date:** [April 28, 2020, 4:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-have-post-coronavirus-vacation-plans/852676/33 "2020-04-28T16:08:49Z")

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Still holding out hope for my June Alaska trip. Unless Alaska closes its borders, I’m going.

Otherwise, my family has a cruise scheduled for May, over my brother’s birthday.

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**Post date:** [April 28, 2020, 4:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-have-post-coronavirus-vacation-plans/852676/34 "2020-04-28T16:33:29Z")

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“Vacation” is sort of meaningless for retired people, but we’ll probably take a trip to the coast whenever the campgrounds reopen, just to get out of the city. Less chance of contamination than other options. I’m guessing it will be next year before I see my kids again.

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**Post date:** [April 28, 2020, 4:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-have-post-coronavirus-vacation-plans/852676/35 "2020-04-28T16:40:53Z")

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I still want to see Biosphere 2 in Oracle AZ. A failure, I guess, yet they learned a lot. And maybe that knowlege could be used for terraforming Mars some day.

Mrs. L isn’t so eager to see it. Tennessee or Kentucky would be nice.

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**Post date:** [April 28, 2020, 4:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-have-post-coronavirus-vacation-plans/852676/36 "2020-04-28T16:44:03Z")

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I still want to see Biosphere 2 in Oracle AZ. A failure, I guess, yet they learned a lot. And maybe that knowlege could be used for terraforming Mars some day.

Mrs. L isn’t so eager to see it. Tennessee or Kentucky would be nice.

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**Post date:** [April 28, 2020, 9:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-have-post-coronavirus-vacation-plans/852676/37 "2020-04-28T21:37:49Z")

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We were supposed to go to Canada in March to visit family. Hopefully we can reschedule before the end of the year when our flight credits expire.

In the nearer term, we are hoping to get away from the kid for a day or two before we and she go crazy. Camping would also be nice.

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**Post date:** [April 29, 2020, 1:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-have-post-coronavirus-vacation-plans/852676/38 "2020-04-29T01:52:53Z")

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We’re hoping to visit our daughter in Vermont in September (her half-birthday; we’d planned to be there on the actual birthday but. well…).

Next summer we’re hoping to go to the west coast via train.

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**Post date:** [April 29, 2020, 2:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-have-post-coronavirus-vacation-plans/852676/39 "2020-04-29T02:10:14Z")

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My estranged wife will probably go back to shanghai, giving the rest of the family a permanent vacation. I’m good with that.

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**Post date:** [April 29, 2020, 2:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-have-post-coronavirus-vacation-plans/852676/40 "2020-04-29T02:20:29Z")

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Thailand. Always Thailand.

Which I bet I won’t see this year or next.

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