I don’t know enough about it, but I thought the sewage testing was gaining steam a few months back before it was found to be unreliable?
Maybe it was unreliable in terms of determining the prevalence of covid in a community, but not whether anyone has it at all? I can see a situation where you find it in stool and now some people have it, but how many people based on viral loads could be wrong as one person could crap out 300x the covid another does.
It’s described as a convoy with a car and a UHaul, so I think they are both driving and cannot alternate. I’d be concerned that the UHaul is going to be more exhausting to drive than a regular car. Also, they might want naps at different times.
Oops reading fail on my part, then yeah probably gotta suck it up and find lodging.
I am currently planning a trip next week where I expect to stay in a hotel in a state without a mask mandate and we had some discussions here on what I should do.
I was looking at chains with a nationwide mask mandate. This doesn’t apply to the states you will be traveling through, but might give you an idea of which hotels are taking this more seriously with sanitation policies.
One idea someone suggested was looking for a place with exterior room doors so that I am not passing through shared corridors. The problem is that those outer door places tend to be cheap motels, which one might think will not be as rigorous about cleaning. At the least, I am guessing you want a place with first floor rooms where you don’t need to use an elevator.
You mentioned breaking your no-takeout policy, so perhaps you should look for a hotel with a microwave so you can nuke your food. Or you can pack your microwave so that you can easily take it out and prepare a hot meal in your room. Would an Airbnb with a full kitchen freak you out more than a hotel? What about an extended stay with at least a kitchenette?
Do you want to go as far as sanitizing the room yourself and using your own beddings? Do you want a room where you can open windows and let in fresh air?
Oh yeah I forgot the other thing we did yesterday - went to the Buffalo Bill museum. My first indoor restaurant (and only one outdoor before this trip) and first museum. Banner day.
And then today my cousin doesn’t want to go to the Botanical Gardens because of covid. o_O
Air B&B seems like it is better in every way except for cost. You don’t have to deal with any people at all, easy entry/exit without encountering anyone, you can do food prep.
Goes without saying, but if you do plan to reserve it for one day in advance, I’d just tell the owner to expect you on the first day. When you don’t get there, it was because you were unexpectedly delayed.
+1 for AirBnB. Book way ahead in hopes they clean it way ahead. Air it out and wipe everything down when you get there. Has to be pretty safe.
Also look for VRBOs if you’re in traditional vacation areas and plan to spend a few days. It’s generally a much better class of rentee.
You can message any of the hosts before booking and ask what the parking situation is. I’ve used VRBO many times for booking cabins and stuff. Also if you book thru either you can find a place that isn’t popular and doesn’t have anyone booked the days before you are there for more reassurance that no one was in the place or you can book it for a day early just so that you know you have a day in between the cleaning and you guys staying there. Almost all rentals like that have lock boxes for the keys so you never have to come in contact with anyone for checking in or out
Like oneeyed said you can just verify with the host beforehand and they will tell you. The nice thing about the road trip is that you have a huge geographic range over which you can rent, so you can definitely find a property where you can park you vehicle.
Also, as he mentioned many of them have calendars up so you can have an idea of when they are rented, so you could pick a property that is very likely to be unoccupied long before you get there. There are no guarantees on this because someone could always make a reservation, but you can pick a place where the odds are in your favor.
Yes.
Stay in a hotel with room entry outside.
One person goes into the lobby for check in. The rest never come in contact with a single person. You don’t have to check out in person anymore. Take reasonable precautions and those overnight stays will restrict any contact to check in.
I have stayed in hotels of varying cost and luxury during COVID and can say that despite the perception that comes from them often being cheapter, staying in those with outdoor access was a much better experience than higher-priced locations. You will feel 10000000x safer having instant private access to your room instead of having to go through a hallway and potentially a stairway anytime you leave the room.
Yah I am a fan of leaving extra early after a good sleep over staying up through the night.
Oh yeah, I also realized I forgot to bring a mask when we pulled up at the Holiday Inn. You know for that 10’ walk from the lobby to the restaurant.
My sister offered my BIL’s mask. I tried for a quarter second and it smelled like him.
Nope - I’ll pull my shirt over my face instead. The lobby was giving out free masks as well. That seems to be pretty popular around Denver. Every place that requires them offers them for free.
Okay Johnny, road trip expert here doing a little strategizing for a 16 hour two-person drive for a family of four entering Canda #1.
Day 1
DEPART: 5am (COFFEE UP)
Drive time: 12 hours
Shift 1: 4 hours
Shift 2: 4 hours
Shift 3: 2 hours
Shift 4: 2 hours
Let your kids stay up the night before, then wake them up at 4:30 or something. Depending on how your kids sleep, they will probably knock back out for the first stretch of the drive, get bored as hell for a few hours, then hey guess what, you’re all almost there.
Take a reasonable ten-or-so minute break together at the end of each shift. Even if you add on an extra hour total, you will still arrive at the hotel around at a reasonable hour but at the time you’re really running out of gas anyway. Now you can check into the hotel after sundown, take care of food, and SLEEP WELL.
DAY 2:
Depart time: WHENEVER YOU WANT because
Drive time: 4 hours
Shifts: 2 hours or straight shot depending on stamina. You will probably be rested and amped up to be so close.
Now you will arrive with plenty of the day and a good reserve of energy for all of the customs stuff, as well as a fair amount of time and energy for reasonable tasks to unpack and situate yourselves upon arrival. You can then rest that night and pick it back up the next day.
I think it’s basically they could source the positive test to one dorm and then test individuals from there.
Can your rental truck setup have enough room in the back for mattresses?
I think air bnb May be your best bet regardless.
I’d plan on a week quarantine plus testing or two weeks wo testing at final destination.
Good luck.
Does Canada have the testing infrastructure to do more tests?
Kingston?
Is it accurate that we are still in generation 1 of Sturgis infections?
Probably as far as showing up in the stats. 2nd gen should start showing up soon. I saw a map that claimed that within 10 days or so 70% of US counties had been at least visited by a cell signal that was at Sturgis.
I can’t find that specific claim but here is this.
Well now my aunt just had a coughing fit which she swears is normal allergies. But my cousins wife said it was almost like she couldn’t breathe. But my cousin says it’s normal.
She’s scheduled to ride back to KC tomorrow with my mom and stepdad - 9 hours in the car together. This fucking sucks.