Tuesday, August 10, 2021

Untitled Buddy Road Trip Movie

Sign that says "Road Trip" shaped like an arrow pointing right.
A few months back, I got a dumb idea to take an epic road trip. Not just a few hours but really put some miles in. I talked to Bryan and Jason to gauge how they felt about a road trip that involved more time in the car than at the destination. I expected them to say that they really weren't interested but they were enthusiastic.

We talked about where we could go, how much time we could take off from work and other responsibilities, and came up with a plan. It turns out that we only have one week plus the weekends. We can take off Friday evening, right after Jason gets off work. Bryan and I will connect and get a ride to Raymond, where Jason works. From there, Jason's 2020 Toyota Corolla will be our steed.

We set the trip for the middle of August to allow for the country to put the global pandemic in the rearview mirror. Vaccinations are available everywhere and infection rates were dropping dramatically. All three of us are vaccinated and have been for some time. That should protect us, if we were exposed, from the severe cases that have hospitalized and even killed so many people. Then July came. Only about half of the US is vaccinated at this point. Cases have been spiking dramatically and people are dying.

This more virulent Delta variant doesn't seem to hospitalize the vaccinated at a higher rate, but does spread much more easily. Even though we are protected, we can't travel with business as usual because that would increase the chance that we spread the virus. What is our obligation to protect strangers that don't "believe" the virus is real? I don't know but kids under twelve and those unable to get the jab for health reasons deserve to be protected.

So, we'll get to see America. The geography, the art, the beauty. But we'll spend less time getting to know the locals than we would have liked. Fully masked with the good masks. We do have some people to visit, but we'll be pretty strategic about that.

So where are we going? Stay tuned. We do have a detailed itinerary but the destinations aren't as important as the journey. It will be epic, though.

It's Tuesday morning. We leave in three days.

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