In November Randy had mentioned that
he would like to fly us out for Thanksgiving.
Didn’t happen. I wasn’t
surprised. I was surprised when he sent
ticket information to Roland in January to print up and fly out in June. The tickets Randy had purchased were just one
way and Roland paid for one way tickets from Buffalo to Medford after he
received the agenda from Randy from Medford to Buffalo. And then COVID
happened. Well I suppose it was already
taking place in China. None of us knew
that our lives would be disrupted just a couple of months later and plans would
change.
Roland’s brother and sister-in-law
had also made arrangements to send Roland’s mom out to Oregon for a visit in
May. The plans were cancelled in
April. We never saw her. Roland asked if we should cancel our
flight. I thought we should weigh it out
and make a decision and pray about it.
Truth is it is hard to get through to any business right now. All centers are experiencing high volume in calls due to COVID19. Does not matter what business you are calling.
When people hear “New York” many assume it applies to the city which is barely a part of the state. New York State has a population of almost nineteen and a half million people – at least before COVID. Just over 8 million of the population reside in New York City. That is a lot of people for such a tiny area. My son and family live in Niagra County about 7 hours NW of NYC.
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| perhaps it's not an accurate illustration, but this is the gist of how everything relates to where we were |
The state had just
started phase one two days before we arrived.
Masks were required to be worn in the few businesses that were
open. From what I observed the cities we
went to were handling the pandemic a lot better than many of those who can be
seen in Roseburg, Oregon.
I think it was on the 15th
or 16th that I looked upon the web for the daily count they’ve given
for the different counties. Douglas
County had 30 cases. That is what it had
been when we left. Yesterday’s news showed
a 0 for 6 counties and 3 for Douglas.
What? When did they start the
numbers over? 3 cases since when? And what happened to all the other counties
that had once been included?
Over a week without internet, news
stories, clocks, phones, etc. It was peaceful. Hard to come back – not to Oregon so much as
reality. I posted many of my pictures to
facebook. I had posted 7 albums – so I
should have at least that many posts in me.
And they are in me. I still need
to get them out and post them. Lots of
pictures and maybe a day by day account.
Probably won’t start until Monday however – when Roland returns to
work. I seem to have neglected Roland
and Jenna since our return. Roland and I
are both so tired still. Jenna is upset. She was hoping to stay in Salt Lake a bit
since we had to switch planes anyway. But
it just didn’t work out for her/us.
Perhaps we can send her back for a visit. Just as for everybody else in the world right now, we don’t know what the future holds from day
to day.
Until Monday . . .
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