the past few months have been interesting, to say the least. As someone who once aspired to be a travel blogger, even a traveling nomad, I can’t begin to process the impact of COVID19.
Being “safer at home” for 11 weeks now has changed my perspective. I had not planned to travel for the first 6 months of 2020, thanks to two mortgage payments from a recent move to the East Coast, so at first, in the late winter, I welcomed a “cozy” time at home with my kids (and eventually my now “working from home” husband) in our new house in a wooded neighborhood in Maine. We got a puppy in January – of course named her “Pilot” – which was even more reason to stay close to home. But then travel outside the state was “discouraged”. And as of today, we have to quarantine for 14 days if we leave the state for domestic travel.
I suspect the travel quarantine will be lifted in the next 6 weeks, but 1/2 of our summer plans have been canceled. A summer of “normalcy” I was so looking forward to has evaporated and I feel like March 13 has been with us eternally.
So, with this blog, I will “pivot”! To musings about travel while not actually doing it. I may reminisce on past travels. 3 decades of journals stored in my closet are rich with memories and reflections.
Stay tuned.