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.
I had a trip to the UK scheduled for late August but canceled. I’m looking at rebooking for May 2021.
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?
I was supposed to go to Germany in mid-August. I guess that’s done for.
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. 
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.
Ahhh, you’re one of those optimists who think this crisis will end.
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.
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.
I wonder if it will be possible to travel to Greece? So inlove with these beautiful views there <3
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.
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.
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.
“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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
My estranged wife will probably go back to shanghai, giving the rest of the family a permanent vacation. I’m good with that.
Thailand. Always Thailand.
Which I bet I won’t see this year or next.