Grounded (For Now)

For anyone reading this, you guessed it… a COVID-19 post (well, the closest I’ll get to posting about it).

If you know me, you know I’ll spend as much time up in the air (yes, movie reference) or on the road. I’m a “New Yorker” who’s barely ever in New York. It’s not because I don’t like the city, but because I love the feeling of being on the move. I’ve been thriving off of weekend trips and long weekends in other cities with the people who matter.

If you don’t know me, peruse the website for a bit, and you’ll get what I’m saying. Travel is a big part of who I am. I don’t travel much for work. Almost all my journies are something I do in my own time, with red-eye flights and early morning buses.

I had a trip planned for every weekend of March and April of this year, and you can guess that I went from 8 trips scheduled to 0 very quickly. The world’s started shutting down, and flights began to get canceled, and for the first time in a long time, I feel like I’ve been grounded - going from airplanes and buses to not even using the local subway. I understand why I’m staying at home and I know it’s the right thing to do, but there’s this helpless feeling of looking out at the world and reading travel inspiration and knowing that it’s a while before I’ll be able to make it there. I’ve got plans in the pipeline for the rest of the year, but I’m not sure whether to act on them just yet.

In the meantime, I’ve been able to spend more time at home walking the streets of New York (before shutdowns got even more serious). I’ve spent more time with my roommate during the past week than the month before that. It’s not a bad problem to have, it’s just not what I was expecting from the month. then again, I don’t think anyone was.

// rant over //

I’m going to try and blog more often now, given the extra time that I’ve got at home. I don’t know what I would say other than just vomiting my thoughts on here, but stay tuned, and stay safe!

- P