“Which island? We’re still mulling our Jan-Mar plans.”
We have timeshares on Maui. Hoping by then all of those will be open. Easier to stay put in an apartment.
The local Honolulu Star Advertiser says our governor will be release in new travel rules in a phased approach any day now. I will post them once he announces them.
Our total number of Covid 19 deaths stands at 17 and total infections is slightly above 800. Yes, the quarantine is taken very seriously—if one travels, please obey the rules and laws of wherever you travel to.
I am hoping to visit family (New York State, VT, MA, with a preference for VT) sometime in July. There appear to be travel restrictions that will make this difficult (e.g b&b s only renting to in staters, etc. These states are currently requiring a 14 day quarantine. I’m having trouble finding out specifics of what that means. Are you confined to hotel room? Can you go to a grocery store? Etc.
If VT it would be the Rutland area. If MA it would be the Berkshires. If NY, it would be upstate. I’d love to rent someplace where we could bring our family members together (large house or multiple hotel rooms, etc(
Any insider info would be appreciated. We would be driving up from georgia.
They don’t wear them. And with the virus peaking and popping up here and there, I would not want to risk being in a lockdown at the mercy of a foreign government, unable to come home. That’s why.
Seems they are doing much better than us so it makes sense to keep Americans out.
Why would they want us there to infect them all over again?
They see exactly how our govt has handled the pandemic and they recognize it’s been almost a total fail.
I doubt many Europeans want to come here at all because we are in the middle of an out of control pandemic here.
This is contrary to what I’ve seen, read about and heard, particularly in Italy and Spain, two places I’m planning on visiting as soon as I can.
https://www.statista.com/statistics/1114375/wearing-a-face-mask-outside-in-european-countries/
https://www.thelocal.it/20200428/coronavirus-where-should-you-wear-a-face-mask-in-italy
There are already restrictions in place for anyone coming from Schengen.
https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/proclamation-suspension-entry-immigrants-nonimmigrants-certain-additional-persons-pose-risk-transmitting-2019-novel-coronavirus/
Thx @katliamom
I knew there were restrictions but didn’t know if they were still in effect.
Even if lifted though - who would even want to come?
I have to say I’m all in favor of the desire to travel and who wouldn’t want to have it where we can travel where we’d like to go?
But maybe give a second thought to your situation - and think BEYOND your situation to what travel bans and/or cancellations might be like for someone who is not just wanting to make a leisurely vacation to someplace foreign but in fact the ban is holding them back from being with family or other important critical life situations.
(disclosure that the travel ban to some places does effect me personally - and I don’t like it - but I understand it and can deal with it. Me enjoying vacation is not as important as so, so many other things right now.)
We are tip toeing into travel. Going to the beach for 3 nights, in state. We are staying in a Residence Inn so we can take food and Clorox wipes. Rooms have balconies overlooking the beach. That’s all I want. I don’t care about going into the crowd on the beach. I just want to see it and hear it.
@Singersmom07 – I live in a landlocked state and can totally relate to wanting to hear, see and feel the ocean.
Several of my friends in San Francisco are starting to venture out a bit. With their family they are renting an Airbnb a short drive away — maybe Napa or Sonoma — and hunkering down there for a week or so, bringing their own food. Thinking about doing the same, maybe late summer or early fall.
I want to go from CT to OH to see my sisters. I’m trying to figure out if I can make the trip. I can drive so no plane necessary. I can stay with one sister who has a large house and doesn’t work in health care (the other two do…I’d need to see them outside for a patio picnic).
I’d like to go at the end of July.
At this point…I’m playing it by ear. I was supposed to go in April, but that trip got cancelled. I haven’t seen my family there since last summer. I usually go three times a year, but it’s not looking like I will make it this year.
Some of our wineries are opening for tastings… sloooowly. Too bad that one of our favorites is in Yakima county. 
I guess no road trip any time soon. It was such a blast to do a wine tasting tour of Eastern WA last summer.
Actually, I was in Europe up until the day of the travel ban in March. Their schools had shut down weeks before ours and every.single.person. was wearing a mask. Keep in mind this was before the country I was in had more than 3 cases in the entire country.
Please do not speak on things you are uneducated about.
I speak “on things” I am quite educated about. Europe is not a monolith. I have friends and family there, and our own CCers reported what they and their family have seen.
Back to travel discussion.
I am checking in for my return trip. American airlines is selling middle seats. Unbelievable!
Europe is large and diverse - just like the US. Everywhere we’ve traveled on this planet we’ve seen differences among the humans we’ve met even if certain countries have differing customs or personality traits that dominate.
It’s one of the things we love about traveling - meeting different people and seeing just how similar the world is people-wise. We all love/hate, look forward to/reminisce about, laugh/cry, and everything in between. There is no single “human” mold in any country.
If I could, I’d take every student in our school who can’t or doesn’t travel and let them experience life elsewhere just so they could drop some of their stereotypes. I couldn’t keep track of the number of times we were warned about traveling to Jordan because it wasn’t safe for Americans in the Middle East(!). Yet when we got there we were welcomed by everyone we met with open arms - and we stayed in a local house, not an AirBnB or hotel or whatever for most of our trip. We shopped in local markets. We took local cabs. It’s a good thing their English was better than my Arabic (and our youngest lad knows some Arabic - he was doing a study abroad there for a semester). I’m sure there are some in the country who dislike Americans, but they weren’t those we met.
I can look around locally and see how different humans are. 
FWIW, the other thing we love about traveling are the landscape differences (and similarities, but especially the differences). I’m looking forward to when it’s safe to travel again. The sooner the better.
It is a Wild West out there… there is no consistency when it comes to Covid safety:
Hang in there, Igloo. Hope your flight is short and uneventful.