My lens on this is selfish at the moment. We have a trip planned in May. Already got hosed on the price but I made sure to pay extra to have it be refundable....
Damn... that fire truck took a beating. Apparently the occupants are in the hospital with multiple broken bones, but are alive.
I’d go to North Korea sooner at this point. My daughter and I went to a Sabres game a year ago and it was three solid hours of harassment at the border. And now those sadistic fucktards will be taking over airport security as well? You could not possibly put up a stronger deterrent to stay out of USA. Plenty of alternative and better choices to go these days.
If our domestic travel plans are cancelled we are likely driving to Canada instead. Y'all can take our vacay money, that's fine. And I hope we don't get the side eye for being Americans, though I would understand why.
We’re trying to figure out if we can go east later this year…and the shit government is deciding we can’t. It pisses me off. And even if we could, planes are crashing and falling from the sky.
Yeah, I am just not feeling good about air travel right now. We have zero family in the region so we have to travel a significant distance to maintain familial relationships for my kid.
I'm sorry about that. It's hard. I highly recommend getting involved in your local community of other young families. The best first move is to start attending a local storytime at a library or bookstore to make aquaintances that very easily morph to friendships. Our life is so full of joy. My kid is a HARD extrovert and has so many friends we keep up with reguarly. My kid is a covid baby and didn't meet anyone except us, medical staff, and one neighbor for over a year. Then just grandma visited. Then my parents visited once. We have just done one trip to CA and 2 to AL and they have been extremely well loved and remembered by my kid. I am actually glad to not have to deal with the week to week goings on of either side of our family. Trust me, there are hard pros to the distance. It's just, when ya wanna go, and you can't....
Oh, I just mean my side of the fam. My wife’s family is all here, and very social. I just wish I could see my family any time soon.
I never feel good about commercial air travel, not even in the best of times. That feeling never has anything to with airport security. It's the fact it puts me in a large metal tube with a lot of people that I probably wouldn't like in real life. Ima be all over Eastern Seaboard and through between here and Texas, all by car, or freightliner, if I'm chosen to pull the car hauler.
We were planning on taking a vacation out to Colorado as soon as the kids were done with school this year, and now between the ever increasing flight costs and the general fuckery in the airports, looks like that's out. So, now we're looking at places we can drive to instead. Current candidates are either a week in Chicago exploring the city and lake Michigan, or potentially driving east to one of the mid-Atlantic beach towns.
Keep it mid Atlantic. Got enough of you people down here with your pasty skin and tube socks with sandals on our beaches already.