Staying connected during the pandemic is not easy. Older parents and grandparents are often quaratined in nursing homes and memory care centers, and college age students who are campus are encouraged to stay in place. As a result, many families are trying to decide just how many people they should gather with over the holidays. With record number of positive cases and Covid related deaths going into the second week of November, their are many governors asking constituents to limit the size of their gatherings to three desperate families and no more than 12 to 15 in total. And while the recommendations may vary from state to state, it is important to note that there will be a number of families who will be cancelling any plans beyond gathering with immediate family members.
At your house it is only the first week of November and you have already put up the Christmas decorations and starting making plans for a big family vacation next summer. Taking advantage of some guides who are offering special prices on fly fishing packages. And while your family typically enjoys a trip to one of the major theme parks every summer, next year you are going to opt for a plan that will provide a setting that will allow your family to enjoy nature and stay isolated from the rest of the world. You anticipate that there will be a vaccine by then, but it is important to note that there are still going to be risks for your parents. Creating a safe space where everyone can have their own cabin within a private compound will allow everyone to spend some much needed quality family time together.
The Best Vacations Are Family Vacations!
Finding a way to gather this winter for Thanksgiving and Christmas may not happen for many families. And taking the funds that you so often spend on a winter holiday cruise with your grown children you have found that the outdoor experience of well supplied fly fishing gear bags and fly fishing outfits will, you hope, create a new set of memories that will last a lifetime. Partly inspired by your father’s past love for the sport of fly fishing, you decided that next summer would be the perfect time for your father to share his love with your children. With a professional guide to take care of prepping the equipment and clothing, as well as providing the private and well stocked locations, you know that your aging father will love returning to the sport of his younger days. Without having to do all of the prep. work and planning, your father can instead spend his efforts showing your three children his casing techniques that he has told stories about for years.
Speding time with family is always important, but during these seven months of 2020 these gatherings have been limited for many. It should come as no surprise then the there will be many people gifting future family vacations with their loved ones this Christmas. And given that as many as 49 million Americans participated in freshwater, saltwater, and fly fishing in 2017, planning a family fishing trip is probably going to earn you a lot of bonus points.
Indicating that fishing is a tend that is not going away, in the year 2018, there were 30 million paid fishing license holders in the country. The gross cost of these fishing licenses exceeded $720 million in that year. Reserving a place to participate in one of the most enjoyable outdoor activities, however, will require you to make plans early.
A growing number of families have had and are continuing to cancel many kinds of vacation and travel plans. If you want to make sure that you get to travel again in the near future when it is safe it will be very important to make sure that you plan the details now. It may only be the first week in November, but in anticipation of a Covid 19 vaccine it is becoming more and more likely that families are looking toward the future and making plans and reservations for the next family gathering. Have you made your summer plans?
