Going to the West Coast in the middle of the summer. That will be my first trip.

I just returned from a day long trip into Sonoma and back to face the Memorial day weekend highway shuffle. I knew better, but the wife wants me “restored” to my precovid fighting weight, and will not permit me to hang up the gloves. And it’s fine. She does the driving and battles the traffic, while I fluther. She’s going with her sister and brother in law for 3 weeks in Hawaii next week. I told them I would rather be boiled in oil.

Nothing will stop me from my vacation on Risa.

We are supposed to go to Tennessee this coming week. I’m not thrilled it’s immediately following Memorial Day, but it’s better than during the weekend.

It counts as travel, but it is not a vacation.

I’m planning a September fishing trip. I don’t have plans before that but I would fly now since I’m vaccinated. I may be going to a 4-day work week, so I’d like to make some bicycle overnights.

Up to now I’ve gone no further than I can get in a day on my bicycle but I plan to share a cottage in the North of England in September.

I went to the beach in North Carolina in March. One person was fully vaccinated and stayed home for 14 days before we left, one person had been working from home for a month, only going out for two drugstore drive-thru trips. I had been working the whole time, though with limited customer exposure. I did a COVID test a few days before we left, with a negative result. We had groceries delivered to the rental condo, and got take out for a couple of dinners.

The next thing I might do is visit friends in Western New York in the fall. The people I will see are fully vaccinated, including the people they interact with on a regular basis.

I’m planning a trip to Vegas but haven’t set the date yet. My brother has been hounding me to visit but with all the covid restrictions I couldn’t deal with it. Vegas is now fully open with no mask restrictions so I can handle the casinos. An hour on the plane will be tough with a mask on but I think I van handle it. It will be great to see how normal people live without all the California restrictions. Just the prospect of it makes me feel almost human again.

Two summers ago we got our passports, and were going to go to Scotland last summer. Then the pandemic came. This summer is not looking good for it, either. I am a big supporter of mask wearing and I still voluntarily wear one indoors, in public spaces, even though it’s no longer required, but I don’t relish the thought of long trips on planes and trains with a mask on. I think for this coming summer, we’ll stick with driving trips, which means East coast and possibly Canada, if the border opens.

Last summer we did three or four nights in Newport RI and three or four nights in Cape Cod, MA. We were grateful for those little trips.

Buying a new house.

Taking my daughter away for her high school graduation. Probably in July sometime. Either Nashville or San Francisco.

I wonder if travel will have a huge comeback. My friends just flew into Florida from Memphis yesterday and the plane was overbooked and they were bumping people.

@cookieman I finally saw San Francisco for the first time last week. Beautiful. Walked the Golden Gate. It’s a thrill. Weather was perfect.

Don’t come in July. It’s the height of both the tourist & fog seasons. The Fall is perfect. Endless blue skies, balmy weather and actual seating on the cable cars.

@JLeslie If the news and travel projections is to be believed, a huge comeback is coming. I’m just guessing but because of the pandemic, people who were not into traveling before might be interested now? For those who already love traveling pre-pandemic, I could easily see this group itching to go at it, local and overseas.

I heard a 60% increase over memorial day travel compared to last year.

Yeah, but they keep comparing a lot of things to last year, and late March, April, May was when people were still “staying inside.”

I wish they would compare it to 2019. 2020 was an aberration.

The shops then home.

Well compare it yourself @JLeslie.

@Dutchess_III I don’t have a far reaching voice. I don’t have millions of people listening to what I say and repeating it.

I meant do your own research to compare travel in 2019 to travel this year.

@Dutchess_III I’m not sure you are understanding my point. I don’t really care what the statistic is. If you are interested, this article. says we are still down from 2019, and then the article does a comparison on gas prices compared to 2020! The media just can’t help itself I guess. Gas prices in 2020?! When half of America was hardly going anywhere and many were working from home. It’s unbelievable, and people just send it across social media and repeat the stuff. They blame Biden for gas price increases when prices were way down because demand was incredibly low in late March, April, and May, and basically the entire rest of 2020. The data means nothing about Biden.