I traveled extensively last year but took every precaution. Fortunately most airports were not very crowded. Tumbleweeds could have been blowing through Zurich airport. Good thing too because at the last minute the airlines rerouted me and I had a fourteen hour layover there. Of course I was vaxed up and tested negative I don't know how many times. The loading gate for return to Toronto out of Frankfurt was a crowded mess. I stood back down the hall a hundred yards till the idiots got loaded. Not like the plane is going to leave without them! Always at least one empty seat between me and anyone else. Everyone on the planes was super considerate. Driving I only used the card at pumps. Napped in my car if needed. I never used a motel and only rarely drive through fast food (I hardly eat anything on road trips). Getting coffee when driving was always a risk but I typically zapped the cup in micro after filling it. Simple stuff but it worked. I went half way around the world to hunt Africa, to MT twice, and several times to MN (COVID related) without catching the bug. Altogether I spent more than a month quarantined at home due to travel. No complaints. It was worth it.
This was Pearson in Toronto during late afternoon on a weekend!My niece's daughter and her family took their kids to Cancun over Christmas break. They're still there because 3 out of the 4 tested positive for covid. They will not be allowed to board a plane back to the U.S. until they all test negative.
Yep, I saw two Canadian gals refused boarding at Zurich because their test proof didn't jive. They were in line right in front of me. I gave them a wide berth! On final return from Montana in December I had to detour north out of Grand Forks and cross the border at Pembina in order to make the 72 hr deadline for valid test done in Havre. I was still forty minutes late but the border guy said no problem. There was a helluva lineup. No surprise. That's the freeway to Winnipeg.
A bunch of idiots on a chartered flight from Toronto to Cancun new years eve decided to party it up when the ball dropped. Masks down, all out of their seats, whooping it up. A couple of them filmed it on their phones and put it on the net. Staff on the plane have been suspended. Govt here can fine each passenger $5,000 and contemplating it ... if they ever get back to Canada. At least two airlines have banned the passengers permanently. Last I knew they were still stranded in Cancun. How stupid! Not like it would be hard to find out who they are. Their real names were on the manifest.
Dang, sorry to hear that. I guess there’s worse place to be stuck.
I argue with my brother, who is a priest, about cancelling church for weather. I argue why cancel because his congregation is old enough to know if they can make it safely and he lives in the parsonage literally feet from the church. He argues that some of the old people are so worried about what others will think if they miss a week of church they will be there come hell or high water.
