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Bahamas 2022 - First Trip Post-Covid

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Title (Dublin Core)

Bahamas 2022 - First Trip Post-Covid

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Description (Dublin Core)

My first trip in the post-covid era was to the Bahamas in May 2022. It had been years since I was last out of the country. The family of one of my close friends has a timeshare and I was invited to spend a week down there with a handful of friends. Heading into the 2022 trip, I was nervous about international travel, especially to a place I had never been before. The fact that I was with my friends made things a little more comfortable for me, but I still didn’t know what to expect or if I would even be able to make it to the Bahamas and back home. See, at the time the Bahamas still required a negative covid test to enter the country as part of their “covid visa” protocol. The country also required a negative test to leave the country. The friends I was with were very cavalier when it came to covid and covid restrictions. I was nervous, and I was and am considered high risk due to the nature of my asthma, but I was still determined to have a good time with my friends… and it ended up being one of the greatest trips I ever went on. New experiences, new food, a break from my life (which had become aggressively difficult to deal with), that trip was everything I had hoped it would be. I always kept a mask in my pocket just in case, but the nature of the negative covid test at least gave me some peace of mind that I’d be okay. The picture I included is of a smaller part of the group - 5 guys having a time on a lazy river. I remember laughing hysterically with each lap we did. That was the first time post-covid where I finally felt free and relaxed.

Date (Dublin Core)

May 15, 2022

Creator (Dublin Core)

Self

Contributor (Dublin Core)

Joseph Bacich

Event Identifier (Dublin Core)

HST643

Partner (Dublin Core)

Arizona State University

Type (Dublin Core)

photograph
text

Controlled Vocabulary (Dublin Core)

English Biography
English Travel
English Health & Wellness

Curator's Tags (Omeka Classic)

international travel
nervous
Bahamas
post-COVID
COVID test
asthma
relaxation

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

Arizona State University
HST643
Fall B Session 2024
History of Tourism
Bahamas

Linked Data (Dublin Core)

Tourism story for the COVID-19 Archive

Date Submitted (Dublin Core)

10/31/2024

Date Modified (Dublin Core)

11/04/2024

Date Created (Dublin Core)

05/15/2022

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Covid 19

This item was submitted on October 31, 2024 by Joseph Bacich 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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