Do you have a summer vacation booked?

[tvguy]

Short answer, no. Still won't be safe yet, and way things are looking my "group's" turn to get a vaccine won't come until fall. We have put in for our usual weeks off in March, June, October and December. March we usually go to Spring Training in Phoenix, we certainly won't be going this year and now it appears the players want the start of Spring Training pushed back at least a month until April, so double reason not to go. And while we have put in the vacation requests, we hope to retire in June. But who knows, we were going to retire LAST June and it just didn't didn't make sense with the pandemic. It is a whole lot easier working from home.

 

[cvjw]

Watercolor in June, disney cruise in September and January. We are looking for somewhere to go in March or April. Thinking about key west.

 

[tvguy]

Watercolor in June, disney cruise in September and January. We are looking for somewhere to go in March or April. Thinking about key west.

Wouldn't count on that cruise just yet.

 

[Kay7979]

We’re in Scottsdale Arizona at the moment in a timeshare condo for two weeks. We have a condo booked for a week in May on Ormond Beach. Nothing else for this year. FWIW we found flying Delta airlines very comfortable. Most people in the airport were double masked, and our flights were about 30% full. The air exchanges in planes every 2-3 minutes, and planes use HEPA filters. I’m not saying everyone should feel comfortable flying, but we were okay with the experience.

 

[RamblingMad]

We’re in Scottsdale Arizona at the moment in a timeshare condo for two weeks. We have a condo booked for a week in May on Ormond Beach. Nothing else for this year. FWIW we found flying Delta airlines very comfortable. Most people in the airport were double masked, and our flights were about 30% full. The air exchanges in planes every 2-3 minutes, and planes use HEPA filters. I’m not saying everyone should feel comfortable flying, but we were okay with the experience.

Bad timing. It's freezing in Phoenix right now. It's usually much warmer.

 

[MIGrandma]

We don’t do big vacations in the summer. We own some property in Northern Michigan and keep our 5th wheel camper there for the warm weather months and spend a lot of our time there, either just the two of us or with family and friends. Then when we want to camp other places in Michigan we have a smaller camper for those trips, usually to upper Michigan, Sault Ste. Marie, Ludington, Hartwick Pines. We camping

Currently we are spending the month of January on Mackinac Island as our winter trip. And we have a 10-night cruise booked for a year from now on the Celebrity Silhouette and hoping the covid vaccine has been given to enough people that it doesn’t get cancelled.

 

[North of Mouse]

We really don’t. Want to go to Acadia National Park for a few days but will probably do that for a long weekend in May. At this point we will probably go to North Conway, NH again since my brother has a condo we can use for free and free is always good. Other than that I guess we are playing things by ear as to how cases and vaccines go.

What about you?

Yes, we have two booked at this point and plan others, but we have a motorhome so we can limit our contact with others according to the situation. We would love to go to Acadia National Park again but the times we've gone, the Interstates in the north east have nearly destroyed our trailers and motorhome so we are reluctant to go again. We're 1,000 miles from there. Our vacations will be limited to the great outdoors until Covid is controlled. Hope the vaccines prove to work.

 

[bookwormde]

Yes, Outer Banks in July.

we will be there in August, house/driving

 

[firefly_ris]

we will be there in August, house/driving

Whereabouts? We usually stay in Corolla but are doing Duck this year.

 

[Colleen27]

Currently we are spending the month of January on Mackinac Island as our winter trip. And we have a 10-night cruise booked for a year from now on the Celebrity Silhouette and hoping the covid vaccine has been given to enough people that it doesn’t get cancelled.

Totally off topic, but what is the island like in January? I've only been during the height of summer tourist season and once a bit earlier in the spring. I can't imagine what it would be like during the winter with all the tourists gone.

 

[DisneyHardin]

I am going to the beach in North Carolina with my whole family in June (DH is staying home because sharing a beach house with 15 other people is not his idea of fun.

DH and I are going to Hilton Head to the beach for 2 weeks in July.

 

[bookwormde]

Whereabouts? We usually stay in Corolla but are doing Duck this year.

ocean sands

 

[ronandannette]

Nope - I don't even have the heart to daydream about anything. Our borders are closed, vaccines are not projected to be available to non-priority people until the fall and now they're even talking about restricting inter-provincial travel.
I do know that the very second restrictions ease to the point where it's both permitted and reasonably prudent, I will book something last minute and we'll be gone within days.

 

[MIGrandma]

Totally off topic, but what is the island like in January? I've only been during the height of summer tourist season and once a bit earlier in the spring. I can't imagine what it would be like during the winter with all the tourists gone.

It has been on my bucket list for a long time to spend time on the island in the winter so we decided this was the year and we reserved a condo back in February. We arrived Dec. 30 and will head home Jan. 30. It was wonderful being able to watch the ”turtle drop” on New Years Eve along with a few other visitors and lots of locals. Town was so beautiful with the lighted Christmas tree, nativity, and other lights and store fronts decorated. There was a little snow when we got here, then it melted and we had a few days of clear streets. There is snow now, and it’s beautiful. The ferry only runs 3x daily, not at all on Sunday. Mustang Lounge is the only restaurant open for take out or patio dining (with heaters).

We have met a few of the neighbors, and do our grocery shopping at Doud’s. We walk a lot in the afternoons, yesterday was a 6-mile walk to the fort, point lookout, fort Homes and Arch Rock. Tomorrow we are renting a snowmobile for the day.

I have discovered I like the sound of the horses clip clopping versus the sounds of many snowmobiles, haha! But snowmobiles are the way the locals get around in the winter.

It has been a wonderful experience, a once-in-a-lifetime to spend a month. Pontiac Lodge is open all year, and Lilac Tree for New Years Eve. You should go

 

[dancergirlsmom]

I'm hoping that my brother, sister-in-law and cousin can come visit from England. They were supposed to come last July but we all know how that turned out. DD and I will also spend a week at Disney. Maybe two if my family can't come over. I work in a middle school so I am limited to my time off during the school year.

 

[princesscinderella]

We are going to Yellowstone loosely copying the adventures by Disney itinerary, staying at one of the same resorts in outside Yellowstone but the dude ranch they go to is all booked up by ABD for the summer, staying a wolf sanctuary b&b instead in WY. We had this same trip booked for 2020 so we just pushed it out a year.

 

[RamblingMad]

We are going to Yellowstone loosely copying the adventures by Disney itinerary, staying at one of the same resorts in outside Yellowstone but the dude ranch they go to is all booked up by ABD for the summer, staying a wolf sanctuary b&b instead in WY. We had this same trip booked for 2020 so we just pushed it out a year.

Sounds like fun.

 

[GreatLakes]

Nothing definite yet since we are waiting to see how the pandemic looks. We may head down to Columbus to take our son to the zoo and explore some parks over a long weekend and we have family with a vacation home near the MD/WV border that we may take advantage of on a weekend they aren't going in the spring but nothing beyond that.

 

[Ellie008]

We have reservations this summer for the same trip we were supposed to have gone on last summer. Really hoping we don't have to cancel it again.

 

[martikus]

Nope. We are staying home until back to normal. I don’t understand everyone who can’t wait a year to travel. I understand life is short and mental health is a factor but not for the number who travelled this year and spread this virus all over. (I know this isn’t a popular opinion)

That said we booked a cruise for June 2022 and have all fingers and toes crossed.

If somehow miraculously we all get vaccines by summer I’d be open to a trip to my parents cottage in Maine. I have a 14 year old though so doesn’t seem probable.