In September 2020, my husband and I decided to visit three national parks in the western United States – Glacier, Yellowstone, and Grand Teton. Each park was amazing and gorgeous, but a few areas raised some concerns about our health and safety related to COVID-19.

Sometimes, when the weather is bad and flights are delayed and canceled, things seem to work out. I was at a customer site in Columbia, SC for a few days. On the third day, there was snow in the forecast. As you can probably guess, Columbia doesn’t get much snow so they don’t handle it very well. Around noon, the customer told me we should cancel the class for the rest of the day and I should try to get out of town asap.

When I moved from Seattle to Cleveland in November 2003, I was very clever (or thought I was!) by donating all of my furnishings and shipping about 30 boxes to Ohio with all of my personal stuff. I didn’t have a place to live yet so I shipped all 30 boxes to my friend’s home. I think I still owe her a good dinner since the boxes showed up on her doorstep on a snowy, cold evening and she moved them all into her dining room that night.