A Measure of Peace During a Global Pandemic

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During the COVID-19 pandemic I was working in health care for an agency. This meant that I traveled from facility to facility where there were staffing shortages and predominantly worked in the covid units. It was a strange experience to travel across Pennsylvania during this time and have little to no traffic that would typically have existed were there not any restrictions enacted. Therefore, when the restrictions were lifted, I did not feel an urge to travel to any great extent as I never stopped working during the lockdowns and if anything, my hours were significantly increased to the point of constant exhaustion. However, when the restrictions were lifted, I found myself in need of outdoor therapy. I am an avid hiker and enjoy the silence that trails offer. I have found that my favorite trail to visit is the Golden Eagle Trail, or as my children refer to it “Rattlesnake Ridge.”
While the restrictions were lifting in most places at the time, I hardly noticed because in health care they remained for a much longer period. On many occasions in 2021, my family accompanied me to the Golden Eagle Trail to step away from society and unwind as a family without feeling the pressure of all the changes that were brought about by the pandemic. These trips provided me with lasting memories of my son reaching for my hand for security when walking along a thin train with a steep drop alongside it, my husband helping steady me across slippery rocks, and more. The photos from these trips are everlasting reminders of the happiness that hiking, especially with my family, bring me.
Moments like these are to me the important moments in life.

Date (Dublin Core)

May 15, 2021

Creator (Dublin Core)

Self

Contributor (Dublin Core)

Stacey Folk

Event Identifier (Dublin Core)

HST643

Partner (Dublin Core)

Arizona State University

Type (Dublin Core)

Photograph

Controlled Vocabulary (Dublin Core)

English Biography

English Education--Universities

English Healthcare

English Home & Family Life

English Public Space

English Recreation & Leisure

Curator's Tags (Omeka Classic)

Pennsylvania

hike

family

outdoor

healthcare

Contributor's Tags (a true folksonomy) (Friend of a Friend)

History of Tourism

Collection (Dublin Core)

College COVID Stories

Essential Workers

Healthcare

Linked Data (Dublin Core)

Tourism story for the COVID-19 Archive

Date Submitted (Dublin Core)

10/12/2023

Date Modified (Dublin Core)

11/09/2023

Date Created (Dublin Core)

05/15/2021

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Covid 19

This item was submitted on October 12, 2023 by Stacey Folk using the form “Share Your Story” on the site “A Journal of the Plague Year”: https://covid-19archive.org/s/archive

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