Less than fun, but thankful

# Chapter 141

Travel again. Air travel again. On the morning of the UK’s announcement of a new strain of Coronavirus appear and beginning to decimate London and the outskirts. Countries are banning travel from the UK already! Fortunately today’s scheduled travel does not include the UK, only a short 1 hour flight to Greenville. Three hours on the pre-flight end here in the North, and two hours on the post-flight end in the South. A total of four hours in a mask. It could be far worse, I could be one of those poor people who wear one all day!

Travel has never been much fun, and now it is even less fun. However nothing available today can beat the speed and efficiency of flight travel. I can spend 5-7 hours total to get there or I can drive for 12 hours. There aren’t any other options except not going at all, and that is no real option since we don’t want the parental to be alone on Christmas day. He is almost 80 years old and is alone far too often already. We were down there for Thanksgiving for the same reasons.

This is frankly a terrible time to travel even when there is no world wide pandemic. Having lived oveseas for most of the last 26 years, we traveled often at Christmas time and it was rarely pleasant and only occasionally tolerable. But all too soon the last parental will be gone and there will be no need to travel at Christmas, and that will be a different sort of not fun. So the lesson is - be very thankful for even the less than fun parts of life. They too are blessings.