My first trip since Covid
My first trip since Covid
If you follow me you know that I love to travel. Two years ago my bucket list was 12 vacations in 12 months which was amazing but in the last 12 months I had to cancel 4 trips I had already planned. I have to tell you I was jonesing to go somewhere, anywhere but because I along with my daughter take care of a sick ex-mother in law, I chose not to put her in harm's way.
I made do with walks outside and doing things around my house that needed to be done. But when a ticket came up that we bought last year and the airline said use it or lose it, well that made me decide to go.
I have to tell you how weird it was traveling during this pandemic. It was as if I was on another planet. The masks, the headgear, the 6 feet apart, the hand sanitizer stations everywhere, it was truly something out of an old sci-fi movie.
Going to New York at 6 am was empty, the plane was empty and even so I wore double masks, and sanitized everything.
Getting into New York was also a ghost town so I felt a little better.
We decided to go to my hometown upstate New York, since my bestie from here had never been and also because there are many places where you can walk for miles and never see another soul.
We drove in the country and hiked in the woods and for me nothing soothes my soul more than that. Being in nature, surrounded by trees and animals, and the mountains, that is pure bliss for me and luckily she loved it too.
Just to be somewhere besides home, in a different temperature, doing something different made all the difference.
I tried not to see many people up there which was hard for me as I am constantly visiting everyone from my hometown but to keep the risk down I choose to keep my circle small and in a 6 foot distance.
I wanted to cry that I couldn't hug the people I love, that I couldn't see my niece that I love so much as I knew she was at risk.
It broke my heart not to love on everyone like usual but nothing about these times are usual anymore.
This is our new normal whatever the hell that means.
We decided to venture into the city, because I cannot come home and not go into the city. Hello! There is a list of must have foods I have to have when I go home.
Hot bagels, real New York Pizza, a dirty water dog, a cannoli, a pastrami sandwich and potato knish, these things I dream about all year long, so we risked it.
We drove instead of taking the train, we walked instead of the subways and for the most part except for Rockefeller center and the tree and Time square it was basically a ghost town.
Which was the scariest for me, seeing NYC, a ghost town. Talk about sci-fi movies, this was it.
The four days went before I could blink an eye and it was time to come back to reality. The plane trip back was a totally different experience from going, the airports were packed, the plane had no open seats, of course it was Spirit which sucks to begin with. I was mad as hell that they would do this during these times but it seemed like business as usual for them.
We waited to be the last ones on the plane not wanting to be on there longer than necessary. I don't know if it mattered or not but in our heads it helped. We double masked and prayed.
I'm not sure I want to travel again like this as much fun as it was to get away, the stress of traveling was too much.
And now I have to pretty much quarantine myself until my test results again.
This is all too much as if we don't have enough stress in everyday life, this was just added stress to what is supposed to be a stress less vacation.
Welcome to the new normal everyone….
My only wish this Christmas is that we get back to the old normal, that we won't have to say goodbye to loved ones from IPads, or not hug the ones we miss so much. That we will be able to travel without worrying about the obvious like the plane crashing but seriously I miss my old life, my friends and family. Things I have never taken for granted but even more so now.
So today my friends let's remember to give thanks for our health, for the friends and family we do get to see and touch. Give thanks for just being alive and being present in the moment. Because we never know when it will be our time….So choose wisely.
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