Would you

[lauraw4321]

Drive from one corner of the country (PNW) to the other (SE) leisurely, stopping at open national parks along the way, doing your best to maintain social distance, beginning mid-June? With your kids?

[Tap]

Nope. I wouldn't want to be away from home if someone got sick. Too much going on right now for me to do that. I think we are going to see an uptick in cases when states start to reopen in May. Ask me again in June though. If May doesn't see a huge surge in cases, I might consider it, but I would be reluctant to plan anything right now. 

[Arcadia]

Nope. I won’t even drive from where I am southwards to Southern California, or northwards to Lake Tahoe, and that’s staying in the same state. For Lake Tahoe, we could make it a day trip but we would still be worried when we stop at Target or Walmart to use their toilets. 

If we already own an RV, we might do day trips. 

[lauraw4321]

1 minute ago, CuriousMomof3 said:

Where would you sleep and eat?

Hopefully hotels, and maybe camping.

[SquirrellyMama]

I wouldn't until I knew everything was open through the whole country. I would be afraid an important service might not be open when needed.

[Sneezyone]

I would not. I would also not encourage anyone else to do something that I, myself, was unwilling to do.

[Jean in Newcastle]

Absolutely not. 

[JustEm]

nope. I'd likely travel a close by camping place and camp for a few days.  But I don't want to go far away

 

[lauraw4321]

Well, when the hive is unanimous, I suppose there's no choice.

It appears we may be moving, so I'm thinking through logistics. I guess we will have to have all of our vehicles shipped and find someplace to live in AL while we wait on our stuff to arrive. 

[HeartString]

I know Arkansas hotels are suppose to turn away people from out of state. I wouldn’t want to get caught out where I had to sleep at a rest area or something.  A lot of public restrooms and rest areas are also closed, which also means more people at the ones that are open.    

[JustEm]

3 minutes ago, lauraw4321 said:

Well, when the hive is unanimous, I suppose there's no choice.

It appears we may be moving, so I'm thinking through logistics. I guess we will have to have all of our vehicles shipped and find someplace to live in AL while we wait on our stuff to arrive. 

 

Well if I was moving across the country I'd likely do it.  But you left that info out.  When you said  leisurely I assumed you were simply doing it for fun

[JustEm]

But I would absolutely make sure that hotels were open along the way

[regentrude]

Not if I had to sleep in hotels. No way.

I would do it if my only interaction with civilization was getting gas at gas stations, and otherwise I had my own food and would do primitive camping in the wilderness, and the situation had stabilized sufficiently so that there would be no danger of getting stranded.

[lauraw4321]

2 minutes ago, hjffkj said:

 

Well if I was moving across the country I'd likely do it.  But you left that info out.  When you said  leisurely I assumed you were simply doing it for fun

It would be leisurely in the sense that we would have a long time to arrive. But not just for fun, no. 

[Arcadia]

If you are relocating, I would request for expedited domestic moving services if the company is paying for relocation costs. Also some companies are willing to pay a certain amount for essentials (like pots and pans) to be bought while waiting for stuff to arrive. 

[PeterPan]

15 minutes ago, lauraw4321 said:

Well, when the hive is unanimous, I suppose there's no choice.

It appears we may be moving, so I'm thinking through logistics. I guess we will have to have all of our vehicles shipped and find someplace to live in AL while we wait on our stuff to arrive. 

I think people thought you meant a pleasure trip. If you mean moving across country, SURE I would drive and not pay to have the vehicles shipped. Can you decide this as you get closer? We always drove when we moved around the country. It's pretty memorable. If things are open up enough, I would drive it. And if they're not, then fly and ship the stuff. But that's a decision you don't have to make till the last 2 weeks, seems to me. You can arrange a shipping company and have things shipped in two weeks, no problem. Either way you have to pack.

[Tap]

40 minutes ago, lauraw4321 said:

Well, when the hive is unanimous, I suppose there's no choice.

It appears we may be moving, so I'm thinking through logistics. I guess we will have to have all of our vehicles shipped and find someplace to live in AL while we wait on our stuff to arrive. 

This is a very different circumstance. When you said leisurely, I thought it was an optional trip.   It depends on what the other options are, to get the family, household and cars there.  The family, household and cars have to get there by some certain date I would assume. I would wait as long as possible, but travel in the middle of summer. I would maybe consider a driving trip, but it wouldn't be a vacation type trip. It would be quick, no frills trip and would not include a tour of national parks (which would likely be prone to crowding in June). 

Edited April 18, 2020 by Tap

[katilac]

I don't think it would be irresponsible to do so if you're moving cross-country, but that many hotels and that much takeout food would squick me out at this point. As would a possible lack of open bathrooms along the way! None of the restaurants or coffee shops in my area have their bathrooms open. Can you take at least a couple of weeks to decide? 

51 minutes ago, lauraw4321 said:

I guess we will have to have all of our vehicles shipped and find someplace to live in AL while we wait on our stuff to arrive. 

From the PNW to AL? That's going to be interesting, lol. 

What part of Alabama? dd has been at college in Huntsville for the last four years, cool little city. She came home for quarantine a few weeks ago. We live in metro New Orleans - 2 hours from Mobile, 3 hours from Gulf shores, 7 hours from Huntsville. 

[DesertBlossom]

As part of a cross-country move? Yes.

[73349]

What are your kids like when traveling? Google maps says 40 hours of driving from Seattle to Montgomery... Have they camped before? Have they flown?

[Pen]

2 hours ago, lauraw4321 said:

Drive from one corner of the country (PNW) to the other (SE) leisurely, stopping at open national parks along the way, doing your best to maintain social distance, beginning mid-June? With your kids?

 

Given that I read that you are moving, not a pleasure trip,  yes, as to the drive across.

But I am not so sure about “leisurely.” 

“Expeditiously”

with minimum stops as needed for health and sanity.

And Masks and all that whenever out of your vehicle(s) as you may be taking virus from more infected area through less infected before you get to more infected areas again.

you might even have asymptomatic virus that you would be giving to National Park wild animal population conceivably.  

 

And I’d try to carefully research every bit of the route ahead of trip. 

I don’t think hiring someone else to do it would be better than doing it yourself. 

 

 

[Terabith]

A cross country move is very different scenario from a recreational trip.  Hell, no, would I recreationally decide to drive across country with my children in the middle of a pandemic for fun.  But I actually have a friend in the middle of doing a cross country move right now.  It would suck, but sometimes you have to do what you have to do.  The car has to get moved somehow, and the people have to get there somehow, and driving might be safer than flying and probably cheaper than having cars transported by a moving truck.  I'd research the heck out of rules, food, where to stop, etc, but yeah, I would drive for purposes of a cross country move.

[Farrar]

If your kids are old enough to follow guidelines and you come up with a good plan - possibly a camping centric plan - and assuming the situation is relatively stable at that point - then yes. You're moving. It is a thing that has to happen in some form. I wouldn't make a vacation out of it like you maybe would in other times. If you're able to see a few from the car, totally socially distanced things en route, then that's awesome. But I wouldn't push it too much.

[Storygirl]

I have a crazy idea for your, which might or might not be feasible, depending on how many vehicles and how many drivers you have. What if you purchased an RV that could tow one of your cars, with a second driver driving an additional car and following along. Once you get to your final destination, sell the RV.

[Pen]

1 minute ago, Storygirl said:

I have a crazy idea for your, which might or might not be feasible, depending on how many vehicles and how many drivers you have. What if you purchased an RV that could tow one of your cars, with a second driver driving an additional car and following along. Once you get to your final destination, sell the RV.

 

I like it.  Might not be financially feasible either. But it could solve the usual current issues of toilets, sleeping, and food stops. 

[katilac]

29 minutes ago, Storygirl said:

I have a crazy idea for your, which might or might not be feasible, depending on how many vehicles and how many drivers you have. What if you purchased an RV that could tow one of your cars, with a second driver driving an additional car and following along. Once you get to your final destination, sell the RV.

Alternately, they could tow a travel trailer. Much easier than driving an RV and towing the car, imo, much less money, and can still have sleeping space and bathroom. Sometimes it's a better choice to get the travel trailer without built-in bathroom and add a portable toilet. There's lots of choices, from full-on bathroom to portable toilet and built-in external shower. 

Either way, buy used if possible. 

[Amira]

There were lots of rumors floating around about an all-day curfew on Sunday and Monday, because of Easter and Sham al-Nessim.  But they decided that Sunday will be normal and that Monday will be like the weekend, with the addition of public transit being closed.  No one knows yet what they’ll announce at the end of the week regarding schools, airports, and Ramadan.  

My friends made 1089 masks in 7 working days.  They had only ever sewn little girl dresses before that. 

[gardenmom5]

no.  it's too iffy about what' open, what's closed - and it's a long way.

even for June I'd consider it iffy at this point.  we simply don't know what the next month will bring and there isn't sufficient information to say "sure, this should be fine".  (and plenty to say - hold off.)

[SKL]

I had thought about taking a national parks road trip, but then I thought, bathrooms ....

I do think we'll do that before we do more international or air travel.  But I don't know when we'll be ready.  Glad we did a lot of travel last year and are sort of over it for now.  🙂

[SanDiegoMom]

We bought our house on the West Coast in February and are moving from the east coast in June.  It has been the big plan for the last few years and we planned to camp across the US (we have a camper).  Now we are making contingency plans -  shipping one car and traveling as fast as we can. We will dry dock if we can't do campsites (our camper can go without hookups for about 3 days) and just get there. It stinks -- when we moved here we went the northern route and saw Yellowstone, Mt. Rushmore, the badlands, etc.  This time we were going to the Rockies and the Grand Canyon. But it just feels so weird at this point to even think about it.  

 

[prairiewindmomma]

It’s four days of hard driving. I would want to go as hard and as fast as I can and just be done with it. 
 

I would also consider just flying and having everything shipped. 

[lauraw4321]

The RV idea combines so many life dreams!  Never considered it!!!  We can make the call closer to.