Summer is here - but travel is quite difficult right now! From surging prices to flight cancellations and the ever-present thread of COVID, the much-awaited return of travel is proving elusive.
Are you traveling this summer? If so, where? And what are your concerns? Comment below and I’ll be answering your questions live for the next few hours.
I will also make a video responding to the best questions - just for my Substack readers.
Comment below and have a great rest of your week!
— Marko
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We went to Ireland from mid-June to Mid-July, from Canada. Flights and airports were complicated but once there, we forgot all about it.
Now heading to Vancouver island for the 1st 2 weeks of September, and we will be in CDMX for 15 days during xmas and new year. What we found the most difficult during Covid was the impossibility to travel (except within Canada). Not that we are gone all the time but when something is forbidden, we kind of want to do it even more.... Fun Fact: We actually met Bono in a pub (yeah yeah, the real one) in Dublin on our last day, he said hi and smiled at us, and until he was gone, I was certain I had just met a guy that looked a lot like Bono, until I saw people going crazy outside the pub ;-)
In October I’m traveling to Barcelona, driving to the Pyrenees Mountains to stay there for a few nights, and then heading up to Paris. I’ve been thinking about ditching the car and hopping on a train after the mountains and maybe incorporating the French Riviera in. I usually like the freedom of being about to stop anywhere I want with a car and explore, but have never done the European train thing and am thinking this might be a good opportunity to try it.
No travel for me now. I tested positive for Covid today 😔 after being briefly exposed by a family member. Although I dream of traveling again, it seems like I’d open myself up to ongoing exposures. Love your content and I’m waiting for your book 📚.
I’ll be traveling between US and Canada a lot for a relationship, friends and family. Already been effected by the flight cancellations to small degrees but its been annoying.
How do you think the airlines are going to fare with the seeming lack of pilots, or people wanting to become airline pilots?
Hoping to meet my wife's family in Hungary, then we are riding motorbikes through Croatia, Bosnia, Montenegro, Serbia, Slovenia and Italy. We married during covid and hopefully it won't wreck our honeymoon.
Hi Marko, unfortunately no real travel for me ~ at least for a while. My husband is immune compromised from cancer treatment. So I travel virtually. Planning trips I'll never get to take cause of course I 'go' Baller style (which is how I discovered you and your brother).
So my question is how does all the traveling you did manifest itself in your daily life?
We went to Ireland from mid-June to Mid-July, from Canada. Flights and airports were complicated but once there, we forgot all about it.
Now heading to Vancouver island for the 1st 2 weeks of September, and we will be in CDMX for 15 days during xmas and new year. What we found the most difficult during Covid was the impossibility to travel (except within Canada). Not that we are gone all the time but when something is forbidden, we kind of want to do it even more.... Fun Fact: We actually met Bono in a pub (yeah yeah, the real one) in Dublin on our last day, he said hi and smiled at us, and until he was gone, I was certain I had just met a guy that looked a lot like Bono, until I saw people going crazy outside the pub ;-)
We traveled to San Diego and Palm Springs in May 2022
June 2022 we went to Oahu, Hawaii
November 2022 we are going to Japan
We are driving to locations when possible and skipping the airlines as much as possible.
In October I’m traveling to Barcelona, driving to the Pyrenees Mountains to stay there for a few nights, and then heading up to Paris. I’ve been thinking about ditching the car and hopping on a train after the mountains and maybe incorporating the French Riviera in. I usually like the freedom of being about to stop anywhere I want with a car and explore, but have never done the European train thing and am thinking this might be a good opportunity to try it.
Any opinions are welcome!
Hi Marko,
No travel for me now. I tested positive for Covid today 😔 after being briefly exposed by a family member. Although I dream of traveling again, it seems like I’d open myself up to ongoing exposures. Love your content and I’m waiting for your book 📚.
I’ll be traveling between US and Canada a lot for a relationship, friends and family. Already been effected by the flight cancellations to small degrees but its been annoying.
How do you think the airlines are going to fare with the seeming lack of pilots, or people wanting to become airline pilots?
Hoping to meet my wife's family in Hungary, then we are riding motorbikes through Croatia, Bosnia, Montenegro, Serbia, Slovenia and Italy. We married during covid and hopefully it won't wreck our honeymoon.
I did the Camino in April/ May, so no major travel as of now . I may visit local site in my area .
Hi Marko, unfortunately no real travel for me ~ at least for a while. My husband is immune compromised from cancer treatment. So I travel virtually. Planning trips I'll never get to take cause of course I 'go' Baller style (which is how I discovered you and your brother).
So my question is how does all the traveling you did manifest itself in your daily life?
The dollar is strong but inflation is high everywhere. Is this actually a "cheap" summer to travel for Americans or anyone paid with dollars?