travel during covid

In the past I would sometimes take my Travel Trailer to a campground that is near a concert I planed to attend. I avoided all crowded places this year. I still went camping, it is social distancing by it's very nature. But, I stuck more to the campground and stayed out of town for the most part.

We aren't afraid, but as full-timers, and elderly with several underlying health conditions - making our semi-annual doctor appointments is important.

We will travel, but in August I could not get reliable information on campsite availabilities in Utah and Colorado, so we stayed several extra weeks in Arizona before coming back to Texas.

We never saw crowded campgrounds, except near Flagstaff and Alpine, TX. New Mexico closing their state parks, then only allowing state residents cost me close to $100 when the state cancelled my paid reservations, and does not refund the $12 per reservation booking fee.

Texas State Parks were impossible to get into on our way back.

We adapt.

We camped more this year than ever before.

If a person is so afraid of dying, they stop living. They are already dead.

Truth is. It is more dangerous driving to the Cg than there is a chance of getting sick because of it. And you all drive to the CG. Or to the store, or where ever, and all of that has more risk than covid

I have to ask, aside from actual limitations, like " I was planning on going specifically to _____ and _____ was closed."
Why are folks afraid to travel in their RV?
A. It's "your" place and only "your" germs.
B. You can cook every meal in it, just like home if you're afraid to go into a restaurant (or they're closed).
C. In general the population density where people camp is lower than average city or suburban areas.

What's the paranoia?

I of the big issues I discovered was the crowds in National Parks and in all campground areas in general. Mid Summer I looked at end of the season camping. I could not get a camping reservation in the National Parks I checked. Every camping site was booked until the campgrounds closed at end of the season. I checked numerous webcams and the crowds were epic.

Took 7 weeks while school was out to tour the west and trying to figure out what's feasible as remote work and learning continue. Hoping for winter down south in a long term bricks rental, with short rv trips from there. Anyone have a place or suggestions, pls DM

Full timers and we left Tucson (our winter destination) in April when everything was shut down. Traveled all over the US from AZ to MI to Florida, across Midwest thru Kansas up to Wyoming, back down across Colorado and thru Utah and Nevada. Back in Tucson for the winter. Never had any problems and some areas of the country were more 'open' than others but we shopped and ate in lots of restaurants with no problems. Park here is open with most amenities and while everyone is taking reasonable precautions nobody appears to be too afraid of being out and active. Gotta make your own decisions of what to be afraid of and what not.

We aren't snowbirding this year. We don't want to spend a lot of money only to get locked down again which is likely to happen and if we get sick, everything is out of network so that means out of pocket health insurance. We have stayed close to home all summer too because of Covid and health insurance out of network nightmares.

We were going to go to Memphis and Nashville area this summer but due to their numbers we went to Mt. Rushmore. That was a great move. Rushmore area is a must do.

Postponed a 4 month trip to Alaska that we'd been planning for 5 years.

Enjoyed wilderness camping in Idaho, Montana and Wyoming instead.

It was pretty easy to distance from others in the RV, feel fortunate that we could do that.