Travel in the time of Covid.
Whenever I refer to “last year” I am usually thinking of 2019. Is it because my mind wants to erase 2020? Or because we had so little social interaction? Some other reason? We were dining in Prego last evening with friends we met in 2019 on Crystal Serenity and I continuously said “last year on Serenity this” and “last year on Serenity that” as we reminisced about all the fun we had. It was unsettling to realize that voyage was almost two years ago. But that was then and this is now and here we are sailing again, back on Symphony…just so grateful to be sailing again.
We left the cats at 10:00 a.m. and arrived at the Manhattan cruise terminal at 12:05. Our driver’s Garmin (really … Garmin?) took us through the tunnel straight across mid-town…on a Friday, with the United Nations in session. Seriously, you are a professional driver and you are using a Garmin? Whatever. Arriving we dropped our luggage and were escorted up to testing and check in. Two very sweet and efficient young women did the rapid nasal tests and we were ushered to a waiting area. Within 15 minutes we received our “valid” results via text and 15 minutes after that we were on the ship …champagne in hand.
