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Postponing, Getting Stuck or Just Not Going in “COVID” times

Where in the world can we go – the author and colleague in Africa pre-Covid

DESOTO – While many countries are open to Americans who want to travel outside the US border, there are restrictions.

I was headed to South Africa next week, but that trip abruptly was postponed when this past Monday that country went into a Level 4 Covid lockdown.

While ticket prices are low these days in regard to traveling outside the US, certain levels of COVID danger are apparently still high.

To travel to South Africa and a variety of other African countries, there is no vaccination requirement, but there is a requirement to test negative upon entering that country and another test when leaving in order to get back into the United States.

Good thing I wasn’t there this week or I might be stuck. So, what happens when you do get

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Shante Abdo by — July 8, 2021 in Covid Travel Insurance
With travel restrictions barely easing, U.S.-Canada border towns stuck in economic limbo

BLAINE — At Border Mailbox and Parcel, just minutes from the U.S.-Canada border, owner Doug Hornsby all but trips over the economic fallout of the pandemic every time he comes to work.

Before COVID-19, Hornsby’s customers were primarily Canadians who used his Blaine address for their online purchases to take advantage of cheaper U.S. shipping.

But that bit of globalization ground to a halt in March 2020, when the pandemic shut the border to nonessential travelers — and turned Hornsby’s shop into a kind of package purgatory, with thousands of unretrieved purchases.

“I have stuff that’s been here 16 months,” the 71-year-old grouses as he steps around a 65-inch flat screen TV that showed up last spring and hasn’t moved since.

Nor is it clear when it will move. Canada recently announced it will start easing some border restrictions, on July 5. But other restrictions have been extended through July

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Shante Abdo by — June 26, 2021 in Costo Travel