Are you still planning a vacation this summer? Where are you going?

"El Relámpago(LZone) - Humanity First!" (lightningzone) 06/22/2020 at 13:51 • Filed to: None

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I’m still looking at Germany (not sure about the cities, but Munich and a couple of cities in the North should do it). And I’m looking at Sicily. Why Sicily? Because Palermo!

Also, I already visited Rome, Turin and Milan. And Sicilians are an interesting type of Italians. They have Greek roots and eastern influences.

Of course. I’m waiting until August, to see if ‘Rona comes back.

CalzoneGolem > El Relámpago(LZone) - Humanity First! 06/22/2020 at 14:02

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I’ve decided to just go mad. It’ll be a short trip from where I am currently.

The Ghost of Oppo > El Relámpago(LZone) - Humanity First! 06/22/2020 at 14:04

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I’ll be visiting Aruba

El Relámpago(LZone) - Humanity First! > CalzoneGolem 06/22/2020 at 14:06

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Good choice.

PowderHound > El Relámpago(LZone) - Humanity First! 06/22/2020 at 14:06

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We were planning to fly in to Munich in a month and go in to Austria to tool around for two weeks but we cancelled. I can’t imagine things will be open and even if they are, limited capacity or takeout doesn’t sound all that appealing when you are playing tourist.

I ended up shifting my trips to some more local outdoors ones. A couple kayaking ones on the snake and green, backpacking in the nearby mountains. That sort of thing.

Tareim - V8 powered > El Relámpago(LZone) - Humanity First! 06/22/2020 at 14:06

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Was supposed to be going Poland to Energylandia for a mates 30th in the middle of august but they are currently banning travel from the UK :(

Snuze: Needs another Swede > El Relámpago(LZone) - Humanity First! 06/22/2020 at 14:08

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Nope. Wife is high risk, and my employer has a lot of restrictions in place.

That said, the plan was originally to go to southern France and Italy. My wife’s best friend lives in Grenoble and had a baby a few months ago and we wanted to go visit, and then we were going to meet up with my sister in northern Italy for a few days.

If you go to Germany, I recommend Stuttgart. Budget a day each for the Porsche museum and Mercedes museum. My sister lives in Stuttgart and it’s great. Sadly I haven’t spent much time in the rest of Germany, so I can’t tell you about any other cities.

We went to Budapest in Hungary back in 2017 and loved it. Fantastic city, lots of history, interesting things to see, and relatively cheap. We rented an AirBnB that was a renovated apartment in an old soviet housing bloc, and it was gorgeous!

CarsofFortLangley - Oppo Forever > El Relámpago(LZone) - Humanity First! 06/22/2020 at 14:08

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Yeah, my wife and I are. We’re planning on staying in our Province, but given the size, that gives you a lot of options.

Probably a trip to Victoria, our capital, and smaller one night stays downtown or something.

MonkeePuzzle > El Relámpago(LZone) - Humanity First! 06/22/2020 at 14:10

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we cancelled a Disney and Universal trip, and a cruise. they’ve been replaced with a 10 day road trip around yellow stone and some other parks. 

ihm96 > El Relámpago(LZone) - Humanity First! 06/22/2020 at 14:10

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I’m going up to my friends cabin in the adirondacks later this month for an escape from society and rona. Looking forward to seeing some stars, drinking some beer, and hitting some beautiful backroads. Finally motivated me to get my front coilovers welded in.

CarsofFortLangley - Oppo Forever > The Ghost of Oppo 06/22/2020 at 14:10

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Only like 6 oppos will get that reference

The Ghost of Oppo > CarsofFortLangley - Oppo Forever 06/22/2020 at 14:14

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I can’t be the only American Oppo to have watched mid-2000s Canadian television

Gone > El Relámpago(LZone) - Humanity First! 06/22/2020 at 14:14

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We should be coming back today from 2.5 w ks in Iceland and Norway , so our plans got cancelled already. Remarkably, we got 100% refund on plane tickets, hotels/AirBnBs, and car reservation . IcelandAir just refunded us our final outlay yesterday. I’m freaking amazed we got it all back ...

Luckily we got to go to Banff and Lake Lou is e in February for a long weekend getaway before the virus began spreading in earnest. No travel plans as a replacement. I think we’ll just be staying in as TX commences a precipitous upward trajectory of COVID cases.

farscythe - makin da cawfee! > El Relámpago(LZone) - Humanity First! 06/22/2020 at 14:15

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no trips for me...i do have 3 weeks off in august...and i fully intend to spend them arsing about in me garden...maybe have bbq every other day..

missus n daughter may go to visit family if they ever lift the 2 weeks quarantine in england

CalzoneGolem > El Relámpago(LZone) - Humanity First! 06/22/2020 at 14:17

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Also ‘ Rona will not have not gone away by August and like Polio and Meas le s it   never will. 

CarsofFortLangley - Oppo Forever > The Ghost of Oppo 06/22/2020 at 14:18

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You stole our TV content? My taxes paid for that! Or...they would have if I had not been 14 in 2006.

CalzoneGolem > CarsofFortLangley - Oppo Forever 06/22/2020 at 14:19

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This map is really confusing to me ... have I already gone mad? 

fintail > CarsofFortLangley - Oppo Forever 06/22/2020 at 14:19

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Hell we might not even be able to cross the border this summer.

And in WA, a few stubborn eastside locations have become hot zones (along with some other stubborn areas of the country), so those might be bad ideas. Looks like I’ll be lucky to get out to the coast or maybe Spokane.

KingT- 60% of the time, it works every time > El Relámpago(LZone) - Humanity First! 06/22/2020 at 14:21

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Home sweet home. We usually make trips almost every long weekend but this year we’re saving a bunch of money  I guess

Tekamul > CalzoneGolem 06/22/2020 at 14:21

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Oh jesus, you just gave me a flash of yuppies 40 years from now refusing to vaccinate their kids against the Rona, because they think it causes cyber-tism or some such bullshit.

KingT- 60% of the time, it works every time > MonkeePuzzle 06/22/2020 at 14:22

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Loved Yellowstone! I always prefer visiting a national park over some city any day.

Sovande > El Relámpago(LZone) - Humanity First! 06/22/2020 at 14:23

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All of my plans were cancelled. I may take a trip in September/October but I’m not sure yet. I was supposed to go to Wyoming, Maine and California. First time I think I ever had more than one trip/vacation planned.

Covid did bring me one good thing: My girlfriend, who is in the Navy and with whom I’d like to spend the rest of my life, was scheduled to make a permanent change of station to California at the end of the month. 12 hours before her belongings were picked up by the movers , she convinced the detailer to keep her in the DC area . Had this whole pandemic not been a factor there is no chance she would have been able to stay.

CalzoneGolem > Tekamul 06/22/2020 at 14:30

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This is the world we live in. 

PyramidHat > El Relámpago(LZone) - Humanity First! 06/22/2020 at 14:30

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Well, we were going to Maui, but that got scotched.  So, staycation, methinks. 

The Ghost of Oppo > CarsofFortLangley - Oppo Forever 06/22/2020 at 14:30

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Hey now, I’m pretty sure I was charged the American rate at the Hockey Hall of Fame, and I definitely  made up for it with the sales tax I was charged when drinking in Toronto as a 19 year old.

Chariotoflove > El Relámpago(LZone) - Humanity First! 06/22/2020 at 14:37

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Driving up to Indy for a low key vacation with family. We will be there for my Mom’s birthday and likely bury her ashes then. 

Nick Has an Exocet > El Relámpago(LZone) - Humanity First! 06/22/2020 at 14:55

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My aunt is coming to California for Car Week. It's cancelled mostly but we're going to Monterey anyways. I'll also do another DWA rally. I need to book Christmas airfare back to Massachusetts but also have my eyes on taking a Hawaii trip maybe though I'd rather do some more track days instead.

Wrong Wheel Drive (41%) > El Relámpago(LZone) - Humanity First! 06/22/2020 at 14:57

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Well Im still hoping to head to Utah and do some lift served mountain biking and disc golf around labor day. Maybe life will be normal enough then to drive out there and hit some National parks and vegas along the way. Definitely trying to do a trip up to mammoth lakes for some high sierras in the summer since its my favorite place in the whole state that time of the year. And maybe a trip to SLO. But mostly will just continue staying local, maybe venture out as far as Santa Barbara (like an hour away). 

CarsofFortLangley - Oppo Forever > fintail 06/22/2020 at 14:58

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time to move to rural WA and build yourself a hermit shack.

facw > El Relámpago(LZone) - Humanity First! 06/22/2020 at 15:00

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Probably nothing. I’d like to visit friends, but I have no desire to be a plague bearer.

Though Sicily is sort of tempting, especially as I think they are going to be doing some things to subsidize tourists. I’d like to go here: http://www.visitsicily.info/en/valley-of-the-temples/

TheRealBicycleBuck > The Ghost of Oppo 06/22/2020 at 15:04

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I KNOW this is what you meant, right?

facw > CalzoneGolem 06/22/2020 at 15:07

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Some places are do ing better than others though. It makes no sense to talk about a second wave in the US where our first wave never got under control, but other countries have done better than us.

As for going away entirely, definitely not without a vaccine. If we do get one, and immunity is long lasting, and the mutation rate is slow, then we could make it a rare occurrence like Polio and Measles, and there would be hope of eradication (though given the comparatively low severity other things might be higher priority once case loads could be kept low).

On the other hand, we’ve never had a vaccine for any coronavirus, and it’s not clear that immunity lasts long at all, so worst case we do just have it persist, and that becomes a lot more complicated to deal with.

jeepoftheseus > El Relámpago(LZone) - Humanity First! 06/22/2020 at 15:08

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We are keeping travel to a ~200 mile drive radius   with a long weekend in the mountains with the in-laws and another in Charleston in the near-ish future . It’s been touch and go with my grandparents health and we at least want to wave at them through the window since we haven’t seen them since January. Of course this all depends on how aggressive this  thing is spreading at those times and locales . No plane rides planned for us this year though. 

TheRealBicycleBuck > El Relámpago(LZone) - Humanity First! 06/22/2020 at 15:09

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We have to get down to my in-laws sometime over the summer, then deliver my daughter to college at the end of the summer. My family  is  talking about braving the virus and going to Orlando for a few days. I’m not in favor of that one.

CalzoneGolem > facw 06/22/2020 at 15:12

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Agreed on all points.

We’ve also never had the demand for a vaccine for any coronavirus that currently exists.   

fintail > CarsofFortLangley - Oppo Forever 06/22/2020 at 15:39

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Just keep away from Yakima and Tri-Cities.

gin-san - shitpost specialist > El Relámpago(LZone) - Humanity First! 06/22/2020 at 16:20

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I booked off October in the hopes that I'd still be able to go to Japan but that's looking less and less likely to happen. Even if they get things under control, it'll probably be a while before they lift the mandatory quarantines upon entry. 

MiniGTI - now with XJ6 > El Relámpago(LZone) - Humanity First! 06/22/2020 at 16:40

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Going to visit my wife’s sister’s family in PA next week. What car should we take—Sensible: Volvo. Crazy but worth the shock value: SAAB. (1998 convertible bought recently).

Mind you we’ll have our 3 year old with and it involves driving through the middle of nowhere at night.

Thomas Donohue > El Relámpago(LZone) - Humanity First! 06/22/2020 at 17:02

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Sicily?

There’s a recent ‘documentary’ type of movie that’s currently streaming on Prime if you have it ...it’s not great, but well worth watching if you’re headed to the land of the Targa Florio.

arl > El Relámpago(LZone) - Humanity First! 06/22/2020 at 17:22

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On ly thing on my calendar I REALLY want to do is the 2 day teen driving school at Skip Barber Racing in August. I bought a package of two seats so my son and I could go do it together. He turns 16 this year and I’d real ly like him to have some pro instruction on emergency maneuvers and to be able to go out and whip a car around and practice emergency braking (all car stuff we talk about, but d on’t really get to do in daily life) . God I hope we get to go.

Dead_Elvis, Inc. > CalzoneGolem 06/22/2020 at 19:35

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I’m headed that way myself.

It’s gonna be crowded & tough to social distance appropriately, I bet.

fhrblig > El Relámpago(LZone) - Humanity First! 06/22/2020 at 20:42

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I was supposed to go on a road trip to U pper Michigan this year. I was going to drive my truck and pick up my sister in Chicago or Milwaukee along the way, and spend a week at my mom’s cabin. It was supposed to happen in two weeks. We all canceled back in April because of COVID. We’ve all decided to do it next year, but I’m bummed. I really could use a vacation right now.

Milky > El Relámpago(LZone) - Humanity First! 06/23/2020 at 09:29

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Japan trip got canceled but me and the GF are planning a road trip around the smokey mountains.

Buying a plane ticket to goto another country right now seems weird to me tbh. Who knows whats going to be happening here or there in a few months?

gmporschenut also a fan of hondas > El Relámpago(LZone) - Humanity First! 06/24/2020 at 00:00

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was thinking Europpomeet, but thats out of the question.