Question for those out on the road now

Just saw on the news where the traditional spring break is in full swing. No noticeable reduction in crowd due to virus scares.

I have not PERSONALLY noticed but I also avoid that area.. Only one reason I'd care to visit and.. Well.. motive is not that strong plus I'm sure by now she's married.

Has anyone run into problems with gas stations being closed? I wonder if Oregon will consider allowing people to pump their own fuel if employees are not able to work.

Please limit comments to question I asked. Thanks

Sorry about that

dalej wrote:
Thinking about doing some traveling. I usually avoid spring break time. Are those of you out on the road seeing a lot of college age folks.

Particularly interested to hear from those of you in northern New Mexico, Big Bend or coast of Texas.

I guess you haven't got the memo about unnecessary travel :h

Young people seem to be ignoring a lot of the recommendations and feel invincible. It all sounds so familiar.

From what we are seeing here in FL - the Spring Break kids are NOT following any Social distancing guidelines. They seem to pride themselves in breaking them, actually. Hopefully the private RV parks will enforce the guidelines?

A visit to any coast does not sound like a good idea right now. Just heard that things are really slowing down in the Big Bend of Texas.

New Mexico has closed their state parks and campgrounds - other states (like Florida) are following suit. There is a long list of military campgrounds who are not allowing campers to come in who are not already there. Our son in Cincinnati says Ohio is considering stopping all through traffic at the state lines. I think it would be foolish to try to plan unnecessary travel at this time.

Rob

Wednesday - 3/18 - from Conroe to north of Canton

I-45 traffic normal for a mid-week middle of the day. Buc-ee's looked to have normal crowds, truck stops looked about normal. Both locations of Woody's Smokehouse had normal number of cars in the parking lots. Did not see anything closed?

Number of RV's on the interstate seemed lower than normal.

But I'm not anywhere near Corpus, Galveston or South Padre - and I never plan to be there.

As you probably know, much of Texas normal Spring Break is past, and the late March and April out of state folks are mostly college kids who fly in.

Did find the non-interstate part of our travel with all the schools closed weird. Lot of flashing school zone lights. And by Texas law, you better slow down even if the school is closed.

A week ago the RV parks we stayed at were full of kids, the pools full, etc.

By Monday, pools were closed. No groups of kids playing volleyball, baseball/kickball, basketball. A lot of kids, and adults, sitting outside their RV in the 80+ degree weather, looking unhappy.