Numerous Travel Plans Foiled

With the upcoming Spring season upon us we were supposed to be going to Venice, Italy. Those plans ended abruptly with the corona virus issue.
So we looked into plan B which was a "traincation" in Switzerland. Unfortunately that wasn't going to happen due to the fact that one of the numerous trains we would have taken went through a section of Northern Italy. European Vacations by Rail changed the itinerary so that instead of a train going through part of Italy that was shut down at this time due to the virus, they would bus us to the next destination and not go through Italy at all. We decided not to do that itinerary since the main reason for going was to be able to ride all of these different trains throughout Switzerland. So we decided to put that option on hold until maybe next year. All of this was at the early stages of the corona virus hitting Europe and the U.S. So option C was created...a return trip to Budapest and Prague with a train trip between the 2 countries. So we made all arrangements for flights, hotels in both cities and obtained the rail tickets too. We even ordered foreign currency for both countries. Within 12 hours of us speedily putting together this vacation it all fell to pieces. We heard that all travel from the U.S. to Europe and vice versa was banned. This was before they delivered clarification on the ban. Either way we decided that this was not the time to push our luck on travel. So we cancelled everything.
As it turned out Veronica's employer closed all stores for at least 2 weeks so we are currently staying in our house and basically isolating ourselves from the outside world as much as possible. I just wish everyone would do this for a couple of weeks. But unfortunately there are those that feel the need to go out and about needlessly without a care in the world.
I will use this time to do so gardening as I have a couple of shipments of day lilies arriving and some other plants. After I get all of those planted I will have Home Depot deliver some bags of mulch and get that spread in the gardens. So within a 3 week time period I will have almost all of my gardening for the year completed.
We are all stocked up here and will self quarantine within the confines of our house and yard without any contact with other people other than a quick wave to each other.


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