Don't you love having to rent a car to get anywhere in the US? Yeah, me.neither. Best part of tourism in EU for me is certainly the trains, can just hop in and enjoy the view, no worries about parking, going over the speed limit or missing an exit
I visited for a work meeting. The hotel, grocery store and shopping plaza were on the 4 corners of an intersection, but they had no sidewalks to get from one to the other. The one road was highway, and the cross road had water runoff ditches immediately after the edge of road. Like who plans this garbage. It forces you to go find your car to drive across the street from hotel to restaurant.
The American West has some of the most beautiful and unique landscapes on the globe. Get out of a city and go to the Grand Canyon, Yellowstone, Arches or Zion National Parks. Better yet, go to all 4. Unless you're boycotting the US, which is totally a valid thing to do.
For my kind of traveling it just isn't enough. I want to be on my bike in nature, explore historic city center, I just travel through everything. So even in Europe it is sometimes rough (I am looking at you EV 8/1 route to Huelva) and in US it seems borderline impossible.
I may change my mind someday but for now there are different places I want to go.
I was planning to go to California this month. That is now cancelled and other US trips are off the table. Mexico sounds like a more interesting place to spend my time.
Not only are two of my friends parents not going to Florida on vacation, they're selling their condos down there, because they can't keep up with the payments due to the exchange rate... Which has a side effect of crashing the real estate market... Because nobody wants a place in hurricane alley where the home insurance is $1600+USD/month, in addition to condo fees and mortgage payments.
Fow a few years now I have been interested in going cycling on the Lamoille Valley Rail Trail and the Missisquoi Valley Rail Trail in Vermont.
I live in Montréal and I'm used to cycle to Mont-Tremblant park or Orford, so Vermont would have been something new to visit for me.
However I haven't cancelled because I waited too long and never got around to plan the trip. I should have gone in the previous years and now I consider it's "too late".
I know it's not the fault of the people in Vermont, but right now I just don't even want to try crossing the border.
Cancelled my bucket list trip to watch the Jays spring training. Maybe I will try again in four years. We decided to head to Toronto and catch a couple raptor games instead.
I volunteer for a seniors activity at my local community center and almost all of them have said they usually go to Arizona or Florida for a month or 2 in the winter, but they're not doing it this year ( or in the future unless the situation signifigantly improves)
And their attendance at our activities compared to previous years shows that is true. We're usually full in the Sept-Dec session, and about 60% full for Jan-April session. This year both sessions were full (with a wait list).