July 28, 2020
Our intent for our travels this summer was to incorporate my son's college visits. We did a similar thing with our oldest--she had a bunch of schools along the Eastern Seaboard, so we visited them all as part of our vacation (the two younger sibs did not think it was fun). Now the youngest is a junior, so it's his turn. One school is in Scotland (St. Andrews, founded in 1410--nope, that's not a typo) and the others are in Washington, DC. So we booked a flight to Scotland with the plan to visit the school (we scheduled a tour and a meeting with admissions), then a few days on the Isle of Skye, and a few days hiking in the Lakes District of England, then a flight to DC to visit my son't three faves there: Georgetown, George Washington, and American University. Well, Americans are not allowed in the UK, so the airline cancelled our flight. We cancelled the domestic flight and decided to drive to DC. They are not doing tours or meetings, so we will use their self-guided tours. We figure no one else is going to be on campus, so we're not spreading or catching many germs. We're masking and social distancing.
We left early this morning. Joshua had signed up for a Zoom call with Georgetown for a presentation and Q&A that they scheduled for 4:00. So he did that in the car--thank goodness we were fighting our way through Chicago for the majority of the hour and a half of the call so he heard it all (using his phone as a hot spot and watching it on his iPad).
With the exception of some super rude employees at a Wendy's outside of Gary, IN and the entirety of the interstate through Indiana being down to one or two lanes, the rest of the trip was uneventful. Everyone we came across was wearing masks and social distancing. We are now in our hotel in Springfield, OH, planning to fall asleep soon!
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Our intent for our travels this summer was to incorporate my son's college visits. We did a similar thing with our oldest--she had a bunch of schools along the Eastern Seaboard, so we visited them all as part of our vacation (the two younger sibs did not think it was fun). Now the youngest is a junior, so it's his turn. One school is in Scotland (St. Andrews, founded in 1410--nope, that's not a typo) and the others are in Washington, DC. So we booked a flight to Scotland with the plan to visit the school (we scheduled a tour and a meeting with admissions), then a few days on the Isle of Skye, and a few days hiking in the Lakes District of England, then a flight to DC to visit my son't three faves there: Georgetown, George Washington, and American University. Well, Americans are not allowed in the UK, so the airline cancelled our flight. We cancelled the domestic flight and decided to drive to DC. They are not doing tours or meetings, so we will use their self-guided tours. We figure no one else is going to be on campus, so we're not spreading or catching many germs. We're masking and social distancing.
We left early this morning. Joshua had signed up for a Zoom call with Georgetown for a presentation and Q&A that they scheduled for 4:00. So he did that in the car--thank goodness we were fighting our way through Chicago for the majority of the hour and a half of the call so he heard it all (using his phone as a hot spot and watching it on his iPad).
With the exception of some super rude employees at a Wendy's outside of Gary, IN and the entirety of the interstate through Indiana being down to one or two lanes, the rest of the trip was uneventful. Everyone we came across was wearing masks and social distancing. We are now in our hotel in Springfield, OH, planning to fall asleep soon!
Did you stay at the Simpsons in Springfield? 😉😅
ReplyDeleteno, just a Hampton Inn
DeleteHampton Inns are nice!
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