Such is the case for Randy Buescher, 66, a Chicago architect who took a road trip to New Orleans via Mobile, Ala., Plant, where he was born and lived for the first three years before his family moved north. He hasn’t been back since.
“I don’t know if I have any memories or not,” he said of Mobile. “You don’t know until you see a place.”
He hopes to take the trip sometime next year with his wife, Janet Roderick, 58, a real estate agent, and one of their four grown children who wish to join them. For them, the 2020 election, when traditionally conservative Georgia turned blue, makes the region more fascinating.
“I’m interested to see what this new south is about,” she said.
As more parts of the country get the vaccine, they’re planning some epic road trips to hook up with friends and family they’ve only seen on Zoom over the past year.
“I just want to visit friends,” said Susan Moynihan, 53, an Annapolis, Md., Writer planning a trip to the last six states that she did not visit in the US as the first trip after vaccination. “It’s about a personal connection with friends and places that I want to get to know better.”
“We want to try as much of the world as possible.”
For many, 2020 was a lost travel year. For those with travel destinations after retirement, the urge to seize the day has grown in urgency.
“If you’re my age you want to take these trips because you don’t know how long you can take them,” said Brad Gray, 60, a former insurance company in Vancouver, British Columbia, was halfway through a transcontinental bike ride last March Way through the African continent when the coronavirus abandoned its plans.
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