An act of hope! We've made our first booking.

My last post was at the beginning of the lockdown.  I was planning to use some lockdown time to work on planning - and I did for a while.  But the pandemic grew uglier and uglier and it sucked much of the hope for travel out of me.  We canceled a trip to the Great Smoky Mountains in April, and a family vacation at the beach for July.  It still looks like it's going to be a while before travel happens - we haven't even seen our grandkids for months.  But today, an act of hope!  I've made our first reservations for our trip.  We've now got accommodations in Banff, Canada for the end of August 2021.  We've also changed our plans for our trip and instead of flying to Great Falls and heading out from there we plan to go to Portland and visit the girls then road trip from there.  We've also added going to see the Palouse area of Washington on our way back.  So travel planning took a new direction and a more serious (yet cancelable) turn.  We are in hopes that a vaccine will be developed AND widely available by next August!