2022 Summary of our Year: Jane and John Grimsrud

 

2022 Summary of our Year: Jane and John Grimsrud

In 2022 Jane and I were fully vaccinated. We used face masks, not chin warmers, and avoided indoor restaurants, buses, and crowded group gatherings.

By May the virus had diminished, and we took a luxury first class bus to Playa del Carmen on the Caribbean Sea coast to visit our daughter Grisel, and to see her new home, and meet her husband Juan.

We had an outstandingly good time. Briny breezes made the temperatures salubrious. For one week we didn't use the air conditioner or even turn on a fan.

Returning to Mérida we went on a first class direct, not luxury. Six passengers on the bus were maskless: We both got sick.

Regarding the virus: As spring approached, deaths in the US diminished to 1,000 per day and then down to nearly 400 per day as the weather warmed.

With the very best lawyers and lobbyists that money could buy the airline industry got face mask and vaccination mandates removed. This is exactly what the tobacco industry had done for forty years.

It was obvious to me that an out of control health conundrum would soon be ready to explode.

Deniers of face mask, vaccination, and social distancing have successfully drawn out this pandemic that generated numerous new variants.

As fall turned to winter the day of reckoning has arrived.

Now a very contagious super variant with no vaccine available is with us.

Our home town of Mérida now has nearly two million people and far too much traffic.

On brighter side, near our ecological jungle garden home and sanctuary, we have found some great restaurants. We also know lots of places not to eat.

We have a world class sea food market near our home that is as good as we have ever found anywhere. We are happy.

Your old adventuresome friends,

John and Jane Grimsrud

Remember travel while you can

Photo May 2022: Bing, Grisel, Juan, and Jane