Hey friends, Marc Guido here with Grand Adventure, and I know what you're
wondering: why is the wind blowing my door? Yeah, that's it.
It's Sunday, what are we doing with a new video on a Sunday? This is not one of our
regularly scheduled episodes. I assure you we'll have a new one for you this
Wednesday, so we hope you tune in. But in the meantime, with everything going on in
the world this weekend I wanted to talk with you for a moment about Covid-19
coronavirus. Now we put a poll out on our Facebook page asking our viewers, are you
changing your plans this summer because of coronavirus, or are you going to carry on
with your RV travel plans regardless of what's going on out there? Especially
with so many things closing -- facilities, sights, even some campgrounds closing.
There's some concern about National Parks maybe closing. Everybody's
wondering what's going on, and everything is still very much in
flux. Nobody really knows what's going on. Surprisingly, a full 89% of you responded
that you don't intend to change your travel plans one bit. You plan on
carrying on as you intend to, come what may, and I have to admit we're kind of in
the same situation. We're of like mind that we plan to continue with our plans
regardless of what's going on. Now our original plan had been to stay here in
Salt Lake City until the end of ski season at the end of April, and then hit
the road right around the beginning of May. That may get bumped up a little bit.
Ski resorts across the country have been falling like dominoes since yesterday.
Vail Resorts decided that they were going to close their ski areas, all 37 of
them, for a week and then reevaluate, although I don't think there are too
many people who think that they're going to reopen. Nost other resorts who
followed suit have said "yep, that's it, we're pulling the plug, we're done." So we
really don't have anything major keeping us here in Salt Lake City right now now.
Right now my employer is trying to figure out what they're
doing. All indications are that they're -- sorry, it's a little windy out here -- all
indications are that they're preparing to send everybody home to work virtually.
Mrs. Grand Aventure, right now we're waiting to hear on her job. She may not
have a job to go back to. So, if that's all the case, I think we're probably
going to be hitting the road a little bit sooner than we expected. We'll keep
you in the loop, we'll keep you in the know once we know more, once all these
chips fall, and we'll be in a better position to figure out what's going on.
In the meantime we urge you folks to stay safe. We don't believe in hiding
from this, but at the same time we believe in taking reasonable precautions
to help prevent community spread. Make sure that you're washing your hands
thoroughly far more than regularly, use that hand sanitizer, avoid crowded public
areas as much as you possibly can. If you have any symptoms that cause you to
believe you might have coronavirus, self- quarantine, and I actually can't think of
a better place to self-quarantine than sitting out boondocking somewhere on BLM
land away from everybody else. Sounds like a good plan to me, what about you
guys? Keep those surfaces well sanitized and well cleaned, and we'll all get
through this period of indecision together. We will keep you in the loop as
to what's going on with Grand Adventure, but we may well be bringing you travel
episodes a little earlier than we first planned. So in the meantime if you're not
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Even if you're not heading out traveling this season, you can come along with us
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from you, new episode this Wednesday as usual.
We'll see you then.