
Vaccines are slowly starting to roll out through California and in the west, and while it may be months before we can put the worst of the pandemic behind us, we can start to see the hopeful end in the distance. As we approach more normal lives, the American desire to travel in this country and beyond will quickly accelerate.
This column suggests small travel trailers as a fun and relatively safe mode of travel, whether it’s in your home state, the west or throughout the U.S. and Canada. Even in the past nine months, we’ve made a couple of in-state trips (to Lassen National Park and oceanside campgrounds north of Bodega Bay) with our little vintage Scotty trailer, my wife and me, camping in style and comfort and able to avoid almost all other human contact. If you can revel in the beauty of nature and don’t mind avoiding restaurants (preparing your own food at campsite) and…