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If I go from my home to my car, take a long drive, don't stop anywhere, come home and go from my car to my home -- who am I in contact with? I'm taking a long drive on Wednesdays and Sunday mornings. I'm not going to just let my car sit and rot. And I don't want to rot either.
What if you get a flat or breakdown and have to come in contact with someone? What if some distracted moron hits you and you have to go to the ER? It's not just about YOU.
I hear Wuhan province is nice this time of year.. maybe a 2021 trip to check out one of those crazy outdoor markets you always see from the likes of Anthony Bourdain.
I know it's crazy out there but this is the best time to go out cruising without traffic jams and morons on the highways.
Thought you meant a tour on the death boat. Any of them. Whole fleets need to be sent to the scrapyard and sunk, IMO. "Cruise lines" are pits of pestilence, obviously, one of many takeaways we all need to have when this horror is over...God willing within a couple months.
Other kinds of cruising, I happen to agree. Keep the contacts to a minimum. I went out last Sunday, long drive to a point of interest (a park, that is probably closed now on Gov Inslee's order). The few people there kept their distance, wasn't stressful so much as necessary.
This week, objective is to not really stop except fueling up and I wouldn't touch one of those diseased pump handles w/o gloves at ANY time, personally. Might head out tomorrow, WA State is pretty scenic fortunately (PacNW). Been mostly cooped up like the rest of the good citizens.
I’ve put on a few thousand miles since the CV thing got real, and traffic is DEFINITELY a lot better. Even on my end of it (trucking) it would appear that truck drivers are sitting this one out. Much easier to find parking even in tricky large metro areas, but I still have steady freight. This is a dreamscape! Only place with a normal amount of traffic I’ve been to in the last week or two was Laredo, apparently cross-border stuff is still a big deal. Normal amount of trucks, normal amount of Mexican-tagged cars. I’ve never seen Houston or Atlanta so swift or stress-free! I got Nashville tomorrow which can sometimes be a pain. So we’ll see.
Woman in my book club has a husband who spends bulk of the year on the road. Trippy marriage, but whatever...point being, she told us the other day freight hauling is paying extra bonuses during the Emergency. Her husband picked up and split a week or two early from his "Spring Break." Is that generally true? If so, sounds like dream duty, though there is contact with others multi-state. Even in states "threatening" to go all-out quarantine (several were mentioned on the news today, 3/28), they still need supplies. Daily. Constantly.
Is that true, are there premiums being paid?
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