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.
We were planning to go to Seattle this year, probably in early July. I’m not changing those plans just yet. Friends who’ve flown in the last week are reporting mixed experiences. Flying off days/ times seems to help.
I honestly wouldn’t care if I never traveled further than a 5-6 hour drive again. Being away from home is stressful for me and even if it’s someplace I love, like the Adirondacks, I’m ready to come home after 3-4 days. I’ve only flown once and if I never set foot in an airport again I’d be perfectly okay. But my wife wants to take some trips in the future, just the two of us.
I have to say, when I first bought the Airstream, I wasn't sure if it was for me. It was the Pandemic, shit was unknown, and I had to get out of the house. Since then, yeah, I'm digging it. I can get away from people, I can stay in this gloriously beautiful country of mine, and live my best life, all while dragging a 5-star hotel room behind my truck. The few foreign trips I do take now bypass the US altogether. For instance, November of this year I fly to Santiago (direct from Toronto, zero US connections), then commuter hop to a fishing lodge in Patagonia where me and my BFF will fly fish for a week in the Patagonian Mountains. From there I fly to Ushaia to hop on board a National Geographic cruise ship to go run around with the penguins in Antarctica for 3 weeks. Not missing the trips to the US at all.
I'm very jealous that you've only flown once. I'm glad I got the see the places I've been, but the process of flying absolutely blows. I fly somewhat frequently, and I have the entire process clocked and optimized (semi-private airport parking, lounge access, TSA Pre, CLEAR and Global Entry, airline status and I usually fly Business or better). It all fucking sucks and I can't stand it. The people, the lines, the waiting, the boredom. I can take a flight from Logan to JFK in 35 minutes and I still choose the 3 hour train ride from Providence to Penn every time. In other news, Jensen Huang claims AGI already exists. Right. Sounds like someone needs a quick stock boost heading into Q2?