Like the vast majority of the world, our family is currently in quarantine. And it has been interesting, to say the least. We have three adults working from home (my sister is temporarily living with us) and two kids home full time. Wowzas. We have our good days and our bad days. We’ve laughed more than is probably legal, watched plenty of terrible television, and had some stress-related breakdowns.

We are doing our part for so many important reasons – we don’t want to get sick ourselves (and thus far, knock on wood, everything is A-ok here!) and, perhaps more importantly, we don’t want to be asymptomatic and accidentally spread the virus to others. So at home we stay.

We also have a selfish reason for staying home and doing our part – we want to get back out and travel as soon as possible! We have already had to cancel two trips and are holding our breath for a trip currently scheduled at the end of June. Quarantine is bad enough but the idea of quarantine without a trip planned sounds even worse.

We are working with our children (in the 5 minutes a week we actually manage to do any kind of schooling) to keep them engaged with this part of life that is so important to us. We have spent some time researching each of the states and our newest project is more worldly. Basically, we are asking our oldest daughter to select our next trip. She is doing research on all the U.S. states and as much of the world as she wants. Based on her research, she will determine where we go next. Assuming, of course, we can find cheap airfare.