What are your travel regrets?

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Anonymous wrote:I regret the time I missed not traveling with my kids between 2020-2022. I am still having a hard time realizing all the fun things we missed out on due to the pandemic. I need to get over it, but it still bothers me.

Why didn’t you? We had two of the most chill vacations in the summers of 20/21. We masked, washed hands a lot, were vaccinated, and did everything legally.

I mean, the government opened things and we went. I don’t see the issue. We didn’t get sick either time.

Of course you did

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Anonymous wrote:I regret the time I missed not traveling with my kids between 2020-2022. I am still having a hard time realizing all the fun things we missed out on due to the pandemic. I need to get over it, but it still bothers me.

Why didn’t you? We had two of the most chill vacations in the summers of 20/21. We masked, washed hands a lot, were vaccinated, and did everything legally.

You were definitely not vaccinated in the summer of 2020.

DP. I did travel but with outdoor stuff only with other people that summer. One long camping weekend in Ohiopyle with rafting and natural rock slide and hiking etc. and a house rental in OBX.

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Anonymous wrote:I regret the time I missed not traveling with my kids between 2020-2022. I am still having a hard time realizing all the fun things we missed out on due to the pandemic. I need to get over it, but it still bothers me.

Why didn’t you? We had two of the most chill vacations in the summers of 20/21. We masked, washed hands a lot, were vaccinated, and did everything legally.

You were definitely not vaccinated in the summer of 2020.

We traveled in March 2021 before getting vaccinated and then in Aug 2021 when adults were vaccinated but kids were not. Only regret is that we didn't travel more because flights were so cheap and so many were scared to travel. Once we learned how useless the vaccines really were it really made me regret not traveling more pre-vaccination and when kids were in virtual/no school

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Anonymous wrote:I don’t understand the question. There’s plenty of time and you’re not dead yet. Go get it OP and PPs!!!!!

Well I regret the trip I didn’t take to the Soviet Union when it was still the Soviet Union, because that would have been interesting.

You can go visit now. In many respects, it feels like it was under Stalin. You probably won’t see the empty store shelves though like you would’ve in the 80s.

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Anonymous wrote:I regret the time I missed not traveling with my kids between 2020-2022. I am still having a hard time realizing all the fun things we missed out on due to the pandemic. I need to get over it, but it still bothers me.

Why didn’t you? We had two of the most chill vacations in the summers of 20/21. We masked, washed hands a lot, were vaccinated, and did everything legally.

You were definitely not vaccinated in the summer of 2020.

We traveled in March 2021 before getting vaccinated and then in Aug 2021 when adults were vaccinated but kids were not. Only regret is that we didn't travel more because flights were so cheap and so many were scared to travel. Once we learned how useless the vaccines really were it really made me regret not traveling more pre-vaccination and when kids were in virtual/no school

Oh dear.

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Anonymous wrote:I regret the time I missed not traveling with my kids between 2020-2022. I am still having a hard time realizing all the fun things we missed out on due to the pandemic. I need to get over it, but it still bothers me.

Why didn’t you? We had two of the most chill vacations in the summers of 20/21. We masked, washed hands a lot, were vaccinated, and did everything legally.

You were definitely not vaccinated in the summer of 2020.

We traveled in March 2021 before getting vaccinated and then in Aug 2021 when adults were vaccinated but kids were not. Only regret is that we didn't travel more because flights were so cheap and so many were scared to travel. Once we learned how useless the vaccines really were it really made me regret not traveling more pre-vaccination and when kids were in virtual/no school

Oh dear.

given that only 16.9% of the population have gotten the updated booster I would say most people agree with me.

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I went to Greece on a shoestring right after college but didn't have the time or money to visit the Greek isles. Not sure if I'll ever have a chance to go back.

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Anonymous wrote:I went to Greece on a shoestring right after college but didn't have the time or money to visit the Greek isles. Not sure if I'll ever have a chance to go back.

I went to the Greek Isles on this same sort of trip but didn't go to Crete or Egypt, both of which I regret now.

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Anonymous wrote:I regret not traveling more when I lived in Europe. I traveled a good amount but should have done more.
I am already bugging my kids that they have to spend half of their summers during college backpacking Europe or Asia.

+1

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Anonymous wrote:Not studying abroad in college, mainly. I think that might have been a great experience AND changed some of my early adult priorities. No regrets: I love my life now and path though.

Same but it really wasn’t in my budget, and I was partially caught up with a boyfriend at the time, it seems very fun and I hope to encourage DD to.

My study abroad semester was cheaper than my home university!

This wasn’t true for me (in state at a public school), but it was true for my classmates who were OOS. At least one person ended up doing a full year abroad instead of the initially planned semester because it was cheaper than “home”.

My year abroad in 1985-86 cost $800 per semester for tuition and $240/month for room and board. It was a financial relief.

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Anonymous wrote:I regret the time I missed not traveling with my kids between 2020-2022. I am still having a hard time realizing all the fun things we missed out on due to the pandemic. I need to get over it, but it still bothers me.

Why didn’t you? We had two of the most chill vacations in the summers of 20/21. We masked, washed hands a lot, were vaccinated, and did everything legally.

You were definitely not vaccinated in the summer of 2020.

We traveled in March 2021 before getting vaccinated and then in Aug 2021 when adults were vaccinated but kids were not. Only regret is that we didn't travel more because flights were so cheap and so many were scared to travel. Once we learned how useless the vaccines really were it really made me regret not traveling more pre-vaccination and when kids were in virtual/no school

Oh dear.

given that only 16.9% of the population have gotten the updated booster I would say most people agree with me.

I agree with you. I can't believe people on this board are still virtue signaling about COVID. "We traveled but we masked! And distanced! And we were all vaccinated!"

Sure, you did all those things.

It's now May 11th. COVID is officially over according to the government, but it has been socially over for a few years now. JFC people. Move on with your lives.

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Anonymous wrote:I regret the time I missed not traveling with my kids between 2020-2022. I am still having a hard time realizing all the fun things we missed out on due to the pandemic. I need to get over it, but it still bothers me.

Why didn’t you? We had two of the most chill vacations in the summers of 20/21. We masked, washed hands a lot, were vaccinated, and did everything legally.

You were definitely not vaccinated in the summer of 2020.

We traveled in March 2021 before getting vaccinated and then in Aug 2021 when adults were vaccinated but kids were not. Only regret is that we didn't travel more because flights were so cheap and so many were scared to travel. Once we learned how useless the vaccines really were it really made me regret not traveling more pre-vaccination and when kids were in virtual/no school

Oh dear.

given that only 16.9% of the population have gotten the updated booster I would say most people agree with me.

I agree with you. I can't believe people on this board are still virtue signaling about COVID. "We traveled but we masked! And distanced! And we were all vaccinated!"

Sure, you did all those things.

It's now May 11th. COVID is officially over according to the government, but it has been socially over for a few years now. JFC people. Move on with your lives.

I’m the OP who travelled summer of ‘20 and yes, we masked everywhere. Places wanted to be open and making money and they’d be fined if they didn’t enforce masking. Even if we hadn’t wanted to mask, every place we went was really good about mandating masking.

Also, one family per elevator, no hotel room cleaning, everyone 6’ away, etc etc.

We masked and so did EVERYONE else. We sat 6’ away and so did EVERYONE. Things weren’t crowded. Pools were virtually empty. The beach empty. Things were opening and we went. Like I said, we didn’t get sick.

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Anonymous wrote:Not quite what you're asking, but my biggest travel regret is traveling to see family for Christmas when my youngest was 3 months old and I had really bad postpartum depression. Should have just told everyone (including my husband) to get over it, baby and I were staying home. That trip was the most miserable experience of my life.

Similar circumstance here, except baby was just over a year old, we drove from Chicago to Kentucky to stay at DH’s aunt and Uncle’s house with extended family, AND my grandmother was dying/died while we were there. I was such a mess that I made us pack up and leave early. I couldn’t handle being around all those people. It was the worst. I wish I had insisted that we traveled to my home country for Christmas (DH didn’t feel like we could afford it), or at the very least, stayed home.

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I mean, I regret I don’t have more money, but other than that no regrets!

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Anonymous wrote:Any travel with kids. Not worth the $$$

Absolutely not. My travels with my son (starting when he was 5; he's 17 now) are the highlights of his childhood. He will travel more in the future without me, and he is more accepting of foreign people and cultures than many Americans. He is curious. He is cultured.

Sure, some of the trips were expensive, but that's not the point. Sure, you have to change the trip to meet the needs of an X year old -- it's not the trip that you would take on your own -- but it can still be a great trip.