The world-wide (for the most part) shut down in the last two months (mid-March – today, 2020) because of Coronavirus fears has wrought havoc on the travel and tourist industry.
Frankly, caution while traveling anywhere has always been a good thing. After all, no one wants to catch a cold or the flu while they’re traveling. So bringing hand sanitizer and washing one’s hands frequently should be a no-brainer.
It’s also important to cough into the crook of one’s elbow, rather than into one’s hands, or on one’s sleeve, or just out into the air. By coughing into the crook of an elbow, any germs are caught there. Cough into your hands and those germs will be deposited on everything your hands touch for the next six hours, unless you wash them.
Since Wyoming in Motion is concerned with travel throughout the US most of all, with only the occasional foray into international travel, I’m not going to talk much about what to do if you travel internationally – whether you can bring hand sanitizer with you on a plane, for example.
My idea of traveling in the US is to travel by car.
I love driving everywhere by car – though I do my best to skirt the high-traffic highways around Denver, Chicago, DC, etc.
I don’t mind sitting in traffic, frankly – especially on highways. I’d rather creep along at 20 miles per hour and not see any accidents than zoom along at 75 and have speed demons weave in and out of traffic around me.
The benefits of travel by car
Yes, you can get to your destination, if you’re going from one end of the country to the other, a lot faster if you go by plane.
But if you go by car you see a helluva lot more of the country. You can bring your hand sanitizer.
You can stop where you want, when you want, on any back road that catches your fancy, to see museums, drive by interesting houses, and see local restaurants that you would never have known existed if you bypassed the smaller towns by driving on a super highway.
Cross-country driving and the Coronavirus
Let’s remember that the young and healthy are the least at-risk group of the American population. You should be careful if you’ve got elderly relatives or elderly friends – wear your mask around them and wash your hands – but for the most part there’s no need to fear traveling if you’re in the least at-risk group – as long as you take common-sense precautions.
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Most drive-thrus of restaurants are open, or you can purchase food at grocery stores.
Many hotels and motels around the country have been ruled “essential businesses” and are open. And they’re being cleaned and sanitized every day, you may be sure.
So when planning your trip, call ahead to the hotels or motels you normally use and see if they’re open. They need your business, so start traveling and start staying!
Where not to go
Very large cities like Manhattan are still struggling with the coronavirus, so if you want to see Manhattan be very sure to have more than one mask (one for each day of the week, in case you don’t get a chance to wash them) and gloves or hand sanitizer with you at all times.
For smaller cities and towns, the same care should apply, of course.
Travel planning and the corona virus
It’s more difficult to just “pick up and go” whenever you’re in the mood to go traveling – you don’t know what’s open or what’s shut.
So be sure to plan ahead and see if museums or other sites are open, and that the hotels or motels you want are open too.
You can find this out on their websites -but you should also call and talk to an actual person just to double check.
You will be exposed to Covid-19
I don’t say that to frighten you. But this virus is just like the cold or the flu – in that it will always be out there. If you are germ-conscious and careful with your mask and gloves or hand-sanitizer, you will reduce your chances of getting the cold, flu, or the corona virus.
Don’t start taking quack medicines, by the way, just because someone tells you they’ll keep you from getting the virus. The search for a vaccine is on-going. The search for more efficient medications is on-going. Wait until an actual medical official, not some politician, tells you what it is safe to take before you start dosing yourself with anything.
