Yikes! I just got tapped to go to Australia for business.
It is voluntary, so I could refuse, but someone has to go.
Not looking forward to 14 days of isolation in a hotel room before I can start working.
Not the travel to northern MI I was planning for October.
H was supposed to take his first business trip today, via car, but corporate nixed it when the state he was traveling to was put back on the quarantine list.
New Study Finds No Direct Link Between Subway & COVID-19 Spread
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@ckd022 - room service and binge on Netflix. I am not sure why it would be so bad.
We’re heading up to Bar Harbor tomorrow. Maine numbers have increased, but the outbreaks are in the far southern part of the state. My friend is an RN and said she felt very comfortable when she was there recently. We’ve made reservations at two restaurants she said were good and followed precautions.
@ckd022 i hope you will be able to get accommodations with some type of kitchen!! And maybe a view? I would go crazy if I couldn’t have my morning coffee when I wanted it and had to depend on someone to drop food at my door. And then some type of balcony or patio to ‘step out’
My H has to send 2 of his employees by car from San Diego to Seattle. The government customer is insisting they drive and not fly there for work.
I went in for my regular labs this morning and unbeknownst to me, they also ran an antibody test - “non reactive” results were posted this morning. I feel like quick running over to the airport and hopping on a plane, preferably to Hawaii ;).
That drive from San Diego to Seattle may get pretty smoky along the way…
A negative “non-reactive” antibody test means you likely have not had COVID. So wouldn’t that keep you from wanting to get on a plane???
In other words you’re still susceptible to contracting COVID.
Yeah, I completely understand that my cautious life style has kept me safe. I was kidding of course; I couldn’t skip a quarantine right now anyway. But I just got the digital files from my old videotape transfers, and was reliving our visit to Hawaii 25 years ago. So wishful thinking.
We should be starting our fall foliage bike trip in Maine today. It will now be this time next year. I hope we can do it then.
I can’t edit the above, and it really doesn’t matter, but our bike trip was actually planned to be in Vermont, not Maine.
@ckd022 Good luck for your travels to Australia if you decide to go. I got out of managed isolation in New Zealand a couple of weeks ago, and it wasn’t too bad. The first few days are spent recovering from jetlag anyway. Australia is a great country, so hopefully you can enjoy it after work hours once you’re out of isolation!
Pros: I had a whole row of seats to stretch out on. If you’re flying business class, you’ll be comfortable anyway, but this was a real plus for economy : )
You might want to:
(1) Bring snacks that are allowed through customs (no fresh fruit, etc). The food provided was healthy and good, but it was very strange having very little choice - Uber eats, supermarket delivery and room service were all extra options that I skipped
(2) Bring activities that occupy your mind besides books, work, Netflix, CC, podcasts, etc - definitely wished I’d brought a bigger variety of things to do by week 2
(3) Rent a spin bike and have it delivered to you in isolation (not my thing, but we know people who have done this in Sydney); I did floor exercises everyday instead
(4) Wear both a mask and a face shield if you have internal flights before getting on your US/Australia flight.
@ivgnzl
Thanks for the great tips for enduring quarantine if someone has to do it
It is going to be tough up here in the northeast. We are heading to Lake Placid next week. However, it has been difficult to get dinner reservations as most restaurants are closing on Tuesday.
Two weeks ago, we went to Block Island overnight on the weekend. Initially, it was beautiful, outside dining was open and well spaced out. Then, Sunday night almost all dining options closed. We ended up with taking out tacos from the restaurant down the street to our room. Went to bed at 9. There was nothing else to do. On Monday morning it was too cold to sit on the beach and with Teddy coming up the Atlantic we decided to leave on the early ferry. Nothing was open for breakfast within 20 miles of the dock, not even a McDonalds. When we finally found a drive through Dunkin, I was so happy to have coffee. Forget about finding restrooms.
I told my husband, this is the last trip (Lake Placid) I am taking until things are back to normal. We booked this back in the summer when things seemed to be calming down here and it seemed like a nice fall foliage getaway. We booked a weekday to avoid crowded weekends. We were going to add a side trip to Vermont but decided that Vermont’s Covid rules are complex and even if they were not, I expect the experience will be the same. I love to travel but outside of warm weather, I don’t foresee a lot open, unless you are a skier maybe. I don’t blame the restaurants for closing now that it is getting colder. but I am not risking any more trips to go sit in an expensive hotel room. I am packing a bottle of good wine and cheese for this trip.
D and I are in Burlington VT. Wow, the state is very strict! A lot of B and Bs require three days notice. I didn’t know that and tried to walk in to one place. The owner said they can’t take walkins. He recommended a little motor inn that he said is very clean and that he would be comfortable in. It’s fine but not quaint and cute like I was hoping for.
Same with restaurants - we needed a reservation for dinner.
We’re just lucky we’re from a safe county in Maine (defined as fewer than 400 active cases per million people). Residents of five counties in Maine are supposed to quarantine before traveling to Vermont.
I am in a dilemma about rescheduling my Europe trip with 3 friends.
In January I used frequent flier miles to get 4 round trip November tickets on a Web Special using only 34,000 miles a ticket. I had to cancel those and they refunded all the miles, no penalty.
But now I have to use 45,000 miles to get tickets up through March 16. After that American bumps up to 50,000 miles due to peak season. Haha, don’t think Americans are going to be rushing to Europe in any peak season.
What do you think my chances are we could go first 2 weeks of March? We are OK masked up, tested and careful, as long as we dont have to quarantine upon arrival. Two of us might qualify for vaccines because of age, but doubt 200 million vaccines available by February. Bigger concern is whether museums and restaurants will be fully functioning. Wish I had a crystal ball.
We are on Cape Cod right now. Both Massachusetts and NY agree that we are good guys so no problems there. We stay at a family place and only do take out. Plan is to hike. We might try out the kayaks if the wind dies down, but it’s pretty chilly.
We share a camp in Vermont too, but didn’t even try going there. Our time was the first part of the summer and of course at that point NY numbers were through the roof.
@coralbrook what is your destination?
@coralbrook Could you push the trip back to fall of next year instead? I just don’t know what Europe will be like in early March which is only 6 months away.