travel

[redbird]

I have (optimistically) bought airline tickets for a trip to Montreal at the beginning of September. Canada plans to let fully vaccinated Americans, like me, enter the country for non-essential reasons starting on August 9, and it's been much too long since I've seen rysmiel. I will probably do a little tourist stuff, or just wander around the city, while rysmiel is working, but the main point is to spend time together.

Air Canada is waiving change fees for any flight changes made by the end of August, and for one change made after then if the ticket was bought by 31. Yesterday, I was finding this reassuring mostly because of my annoyingly persistent cough; this evening, I'm wondering whether the border will actually be open, and whether it will seem prudent for me to make this trip if it is.

I am on day 2 of the antibiotics, and am coughing significantly less than before I started them, which is absolutely a good thing.

I called my dentist's office this afternoon and left a message asking them to call because I want to reschedule, because a cough and a dental cleaning don't seem like a good combination. The appointment is next Wednesday, and I hope I won't be coughing by then, but hope isn't the same as knowledge.

Comments

[joseph_teller]

Good luck with that... my wife's company is in negotiations with the union to extend the work from home telecommuting plan past the original first week of September plan, until at least Oct and possibly to the end of the year depending on the situation nationally (they have offices not just here but across the country) as the Delta variant situation is of deep concern (as is the Lambda which may be here by then and is very anti-body resistant).

You should keep an eye on Canada's policies, last I heard they were still demanding tests and quarantine for folks from the USA (My wife's went thru that on both sides, 2 weeks in Canada quarantine and then 2 in the USA coming back, this was last month).

[redbird]

They are going to require testing, and then the US will require another test so I can come back, but not quarantine unless they pick me to test randomly at the airport and that test is positive.