Border closure extended

My wife and I just drove home last week from Idaho to Fairbanks thru Alberta, BC and Yukon. It was very strange as after we got to Whitecourt, AB it seemed like a ghost highway and the further north we got it only got worse. Businesses closed or hanging on by a thread. Traffic was probably half what we normally see in February coming south from Fairbanks. We have done this trip for years.

I don't know the answer but hope we all make it.
Rick

gmckenzie wrote:

Reisender wrote:

gmckenzie wrote:

Boon Docker wrote:

garyhaupt wrote:
We have decided to just travel-in-province. We'll take the month of October and wander BC. I would guess too, that we won't be going south this coming winter.

I wonder what Winnipeg is like.in January and February, from the inside of an RV. Lots of tourist highlights I bet, and no crowds. No bugs, either.
Gary

Inside the RV it's nice outside the RV dam cold. :B

Inside the rv the heater is running 24/7 just to keep the tanks from freezing....

Dam cold doesn't cover the outside

Born and raised there and loving winters in the Okanagan now :)

Which part of the valley.

Kelowna. Much warmer than Winnipeg in the winter and way less bugs in the summer. Plus I'm not even retired yet (unlike 80% of the people living here)

Sounds like you, Gary and I have the Valley covered. We are in Vernon. We are in Kelowna often though.

With all of the spare time we have had our coach has never been in better shape. Replaced a few tiles that had cracked over the last 17 years. Probably a dozen other things that we put off as we were always working when we were in Canada. Now it’s all ready to go south and....guess we’ll have to wait and see. Covid numbers are climbing in the US again. Thinking that our fifty fifty chances of going south are warning.

Two things have to happen before travel insurance companies we’ll issue a policy inclusive of Covid.

1. Border restrictions removed.

2. Travel advisory removed.

The two might happen at the same time. Ojala. Spanish for “Let’s freakin hope so”. ;)

Reisender wrote:

gmckenzie wrote:

Boon Docker wrote:

garyhaupt wrote:
We have decided to just travel-in-province. We'll take the month of October and wander BC. I would guess too, that we won't be going south this coming winter.

I wonder what Winnipeg is like.in January and February, from the inside of an RV. Lots of tourist highlights I bet, and no crowds. No bugs, either.
Gary

Inside the RV it's nice outside the RV dam cold. :B

Inside the rv the heater is running 24/7 just to keep the tanks from freezing....

Dam cold doesn't cover the outside

Born and raised there and loving winters in the Okanagan now :)

Which part of the valley.

Kelowna. Much warmer than Winnipeg in the winter and way less bugs in the summer. Plus I'm not even retired yet (unlike 80% of the people living here)

gmckenzie wrote:

Boon Docker wrote:

garyhaupt wrote:
We have decided to just travel-in-province. We'll take the month of October and wander BC. I would guess too, that we won't be going south this coming winter.

I wonder what Winnipeg is like.in January and February, from the inside of an RV. Lots of tourist highlights I bet, and no crowds. No bugs, either.
Gary

Inside the RV it's nice outside the RV dam cold. :B

Inside the rv the heater is running 24/7 just to keep the tanks from freezing....

Dam cold doesn't cover the outside

Born and raised there and loving winters in the Okanagan now :)

Which part of the valley.

Boon Docker wrote:

garyhaupt wrote:
We have decided to just travel-in-province. We'll take the month of October and wander BC. I would guess too, that we won't be going south this coming winter.

I wonder what Winnipeg is like.in January and February, from the inside of an RV. Lots of tourist highlights I bet, and no crowds. No bugs, either.
Gary

Inside the RV it's nice outside the RV dam cold. :B

Inside the rv the heater is running 24/7 just to keep the tanks from freezing....

Dam cold doesn't cover the outside

Born and raised there and loving winters in the Okanagan now :)

garyhaupt wrote:
We have decided to just travel-in-province. We'll take the month of October and wander BC. I would guess too, that we won't be going south this coming winter.

I wonder what Winnipeg is like.in January and February, from the inside of an RV. Lots of tourist highlights I bet, and no crowds. No bugs, either.
Gary

Inside the RV it's nice outside the RV dam cold. :B

We have decided to just travel-in-province. We'll take the month of October and wander BC. I would guess too, that we won't be going south this coming winter.

I wonder what Winnipeg is like.in January and February, from the inside of an RV. Lots of tourist highlights I bet, and no crowds. No bugs, either.


Gary

MDKMDK wrote:
If Air Canada and other cross border toruism businesses are to have a fighting chance at survival, they better get it open sonner than later.

Yeah, a lot of summer tourist locals in places like PEI will be closing for good with all the current closures in place.

From the Ottawa Citizen....

https://ottawacitizen.com/news/national/clean-rollover-canada-u-s-set-to-extend-border-closure-to-late-july/wcm/a83a4e94-17c7-41fc-92b4-2683ee29a7cd/

Also..what Gary and noteven said.

MORSNOW wrote:

MDKMDK wrote:
The linked article suggests on May 19 it was extended to June 21.
Where is the July 31 part? I don't see it.

That is correct, the Canadian Govt will readdress on 21 June, the US Govt will on 22 June (why the day apart I'll never know). I'm stuck up here in Alaska and have been keeping an eye on the reopening date to get into Canada and then back into the US.

What Gary said - pretty sure you can transit to and from AK to the lower 48. Extended visiting in Canada will be discouraged.