# Planning a trip, safety precautions **URL:** \ **Category:** The Quarantine Zone\ **Tags:** covid-quarantine\ **Created:** [October 6, 2020, 3:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/planning-a-trip-safety-precautions/922343 "2020-10-06T15:17:28Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![madmonk28](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/madmonk28/32/20811_2.png) [@madmonk28](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/madmonk28)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2020, 3:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/planning-a-trip-safety-precautions/922343/1 "2020-10-06T15:17:28Z")
So my wife and I are planning a trip to fly fish for a few days at the end of the month. We haven’t done any traveling since COVID and have tried to be careful.,please review our plan and tell me if there are any other precautions we should take. 1. We’ll be staying at a house we rent every year. It is on a few acres with no other houses nearby. 2. We will grocery shop before we get there and cook all our meals at the house. 3. We’ll bring own own sheets and pillows and wash all the dishes before we use them (just to be safe), we will also bring some Lysol and wipe down surfaces on arrival. 4. We will be fishing in a drift boat with a guide, we will wear masks. This is the riskiest activity, IMHO, but we will be outside in a boat with about 6 feet between everyone. Lunch, we’ll eat on the shore and spread out. Anything else we should be doing? ---
**Author:** ![Dinsdale](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/97f17d/32.png) [@Dinsdale](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dinsdale)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2020, 3:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/planning-a-trip-safety-precautions/922343/2 "2020-10-06T15:44:09Z")
Don’t eat any of the fish for 14 days, you can’t be sure who may have caught and released them! 😃 I dunno what else. How are you getting there? I would question how much masks are needed if outside while in the boat, if 6’ from others. How many people in how large of a boat? Enjoy! ---
**Author:** ![madmonk28](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/madmonk28/32/20811_2.png) [@madmonk28](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/madmonk28)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2020, 3:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/planning-a-trip-safety-precautions/922343/3 "2020-10-06T15:50:40Z")
We are driving from our cabin in Luray, VA to Bluff City, Tn to fish the South Holston. It’s a 16’ drift boat, 2 anglers, me and my wife and the guide who sits in the middle. The guide is a friend who has been guiding all during the pandemic, so he gets exposed to a lot of people. I think we all need to mask up. > **[Eddy - ClackaCraft Drift Boats](https://www.clacka.com/boats/eddy/)** > > Eddy Quick and maneuverable with exceptional holding ability, the Eddy has quickly become a favorite among guides in the intermountain west and beyond. Adapted from our widely popular 16’LP hull, the Eddy’s wider transom improves back-end weight... ---
**Author:** ![Procrustus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/procrustus/32/2994_2.png) [@Procrustus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Procrustus)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2020, 3:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/planning-a-trip-safety-precautions/922343/4 "2020-10-06T15:53:04Z")
> [@madmonk28](#): > > We’ll bring own own sheets and pillows and wash all the dishes before we use them (just to be safe), we will also bring some Lysol and wipe down surfaces on arrival. This part wouldn’t have occurred to me. We stayed at “suite” last month at a hotel that had a kitchen and three bedrooms. We used their sheets and dishes. No harm I guess, but seems like a lot of work. (unless you need to bring your own sheets anyway, for unrelated reasons) ---
**Author:** ![madmonk28](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/madmonk28/32/20811_2.png) [@madmonk28](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/madmonk28)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2020, 3:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/planning-a-trip-safety-precautions/922343/5 "2020-10-06T15:55:09Z")
No, just the idea of sleeping on a pillow someone else has drooled on is gross right now. Also, TN hasn’t been doing great on COVID last I checked. My wife is a cancer survivor and thus at risk. ---
**Author:** ![Procrustus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/procrustus/32/2994_2.png) [@Procrustus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Procrustus)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2020, 3:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/planning-a-trip-safety-precautions/922343/6 "2020-10-06T15:57:01Z")
> [@madmonk28](#): > > just the idea of sleeping on a pillow someone else has drooled on is gross right now. No argument from me. Best wishes ---
**Author:** ![Dinsdale](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/97f17d/32.png) [@Dinsdale](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dinsdale)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2020, 4:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/planning-a-trip-safety-precautions/922343/7 "2020-10-06T16:43:20Z")
We have a dog, so I pretty much always have plastic poop baggies in every jacket pocket. When we drove out to Denver in June, I used them as gloves on gas pump handles and doors and such. Depending on how concerned you are, something like that might give you comfort. On our couple of trips, we were pleased at the general level of cleanliness in rest stops and roadside gas stations. My personal thinking is that bring your groceries eliminates the biggest uncertainty. ---
**Author:** ![madmonk28](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/madmonk28/32/20811_2.png) [@madmonk28](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/madmonk28)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2020, 4:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/planning-a-trip-safety-precautions/922343/8 "2020-10-06T16:49:10Z")
Thanks, good call on the poop bags, we have them everywhere. We’re going from our cabin in VA, it’s only about a 5 hour drive. Because of COVID, there a couple of things we won’t get to do that we normally do when we go, mostly we won’t be able to eat out at some favorite restaurants.