A New Way to Travel (for Us) during Pandemic Restrictions
When the COVID-19 pandemic hit in March 2020, travel was not on our minds; our only concern was keeping everyone healthy and safe. Wearing masks anywhere outside of our house, social distancing, quarantine, washing hands, changing clothes after running errands, etc. - these became our norm. The previously unimaginably weird acts of eating a meal with family outside but distanced by 12+ feet sitting on separate picnic blankets, and Zoom calls with friends after work instead of meeting up at the brewery like we normally did became commonplace. We also became enraptured in watching the news about how the government was responding to the pandemic and how so many people were resistant to those mandates. Despite hoping for a rapid resolution to the pandemic, we soon realized that we were in this for the long haul. We remember NPR wisely saying in April to "get a comfortable mask". Soon after, a friend's destination wedding in Spain was cancelled, as were our flig...