Thanksgiving looks different for many of us this year. The seats, usually filled with friends and family, may be empty. The dinner portions may be smaller. The room may be a little bit quieter. For others, perhaps you have safely quarantined and will spend the holiday with friends and family. If so, cherish those moments.
The RVtravel.com staff will be alone this year. Our Thanksgivings will be quiet. We’ll be thinking of all of you and your families and will share a piece of virtual turkey and a toast of something bubbly.
Will you spend Thanksgiving with your friends or family this year? Has the pandemic affected your holiday plans, or not? Please tell us in the poll below. If you wish to leave a comment, please be respectful.
Here in our Park they are having Thanksgiving. Many will pick up their dinner to go but some will eat together. They are social distancing plus wearing mask. You can sit with others of you feel it’s safe. Many are workampers who have been here in park. If anyone comes to events,every precaution has been taken such as Mask,social distancing and sanitizing.
Me and my household – that’s me and my dog.
I may go to my son who lives 40 miles away….but it’s still up on the air depending on how healthy we are. It’s just the 2 of us. He is doing a smoked turkey. Worst case we will just trade foods by porch exchange, turkey for me trimmings for him. We will eat good either together or alone….
Use to be 15 or so of our combined family members would gather together to give thanks each year. But as time has passed, loved ones have passed away and others have moved away, it’s now just me and the wife. But we are so thankful for the memories of years past. Happy Thanksgiving
We’ll go to our Daughter’s place an hour away, but we’ll sit outside around her fire-pit in electric blankets to eat dinner. We’re not going inside anywhere until this plague is over!
It will just be our daughter and us and my brother who lives with us. We will make up a box and take it to my 90 year old parents (about 5 minutes away) so they can have a Thanksgiving meal but not risking exposing them to the virus. It is too cold in Colorado to plan an outside meal. I am hoping to zoom with them while we eat.
Just me and the hubby this year. We’ll be visiting my folks the day before with masks in place. Much of my family is getting together even though my folks and niece have said they are uncomfortable with getting together but just don’t feel comfortable saying no. My dad said to me as I explained why we would be skipping, “you don’t have to explain you’re the only smart ones in the family.”
Just the two of us. We have turned down invitations to join friends and family and they have been very understanding as we are both in the high risk category for Covid. For at least this year, pictures and emails will have to do. Stay safe, Stay well.
Michigan is in a horrible surge so all the family agreed it’s not a year to eat together my 18lb smoked turkey. Even Christmas is looking iffy. Most likely we’ll wait until next summer.
Our RV park is having thanksgiving for any who want to participate. Tables are arranged for safe distancing and we will have 8 in our group. Others will eat outside and/or carry out their meal. Can’t please everyone but this will work well for us.
I checked “our usual group” which is all family that we have been with all year off and on. One of our Grandsons and his new wife won’t be there because he may have been exposed to covid at his work.
it’s just us for thanksgiving…not becuz of the virus, though. no kids. we lost my BIL in ‘03 and my MIL in ‘16. dad and FIL passed decades ago. mom lived out if state when she died in ‘13 and my sister always has a crowd (we’ve never liked big family gatherings). so it’s been just us for many years and that’s the way we like it. but my BIL from CA will be with us for Xmas.
We are staying home with just the two of us. My husband, a retired firefighter, always cooks a feast. We have one aunt who has to work on Thanksgiving, so we are dropping off a meal for her to enjoy. We are checking with other family members and friends to see if anyone else would like a meal. I hope that everyone stays safe so that the holiday does not become a super spreader event.
I’m staying home alone and probably doing takeout from a local restaurant to support them. I’ll be zooming with my kids and partners. They live nearby but we’re all trying to stay safe so we can get together when things are better.
Yes! We are zooming with our son too, both for Thanksgiving and Christmas. It’s really hard ☹️ (we haven’t seen him in person since last Christmas) but we all want to be around (alive and healthy ) when Christmas 2021 arrives. I think it is more loving to make the sacrifice.
I’m 77 she is 75… kids/grandkids are scattered across the country…so we will just stay home this year and hope there will be another.
This is our situation exactly. Sad for Thanksgiving, but devastating to me for Christmas…
We are doing a short work camping stint, where the managers are part owners, and friends of ours. We told them we would stay through Thanksgiving. They said YAY!
We, along with others, are helping to revive what used to be a beautiful RV Resort park in Arizona. It was a membership campground that went under 5 years ago. The company that owned it is still in court over the few remaining resorts they have held onto.
At any rate, we had planned to be on the road, but instead, we’re going to celebrate Thanksgiving day with new found friends, and probably play some music too. One of the big draws here is we jam, and that gives me a chance to play the plethora of instruments I carry with me.
Happy Thanksgiving to you and yours! It’s all about giving thanks for what we have.
I would be interested in the name of the former membership campground. For years, I had my eye on Western Horizons to have in addition to Thousand Trails. I’m glad I didnt buy a membership. I have had Thousand Trails for 33 years. It served its purpose, especially during our 10 year hitch at full-timing. Thousand Trails is not what it used to be and it’s very disappointing. After 33 years, we are getting rid of our membership. Frankly, I’m a little bitter with the whole thing.
Last year our Thanksgiving was for 30ish folks. This year, it will be for two with leftovers for several days.
alone
The first and third choices are the same, and both are ‘Alone’
Just me for Thanksgiving. Covid crashed the party.
Regular Thanksgiving with 3 adult children and their families of 2 grandchildren each. We would truly rather take our chances than be isolated and imprisoned, with a 99.2% recovery rate. So be it. If we live, we will update you. We are all in total agreement.
My husband and I are at the RV Resort in FL where we are lot owners. In addition to the 2 of us, we will be having 5 close friends for dinner on our patio. We plan to have a single food server, me and rather than all sitting around one table, we will space out 2 large tables under the palm trees so that we are more distant from one another than in past years.
Unfortunately, Oregon is “froze.” No social gatherings, etc, etc. Otherwise, we would be with family and friends. I still find it hard to understand how gathering with a few family members is worse than shopping at a “big box” store. Restaurants and Mom n Pop businesses are closing left and right. So sad.
The difference is time of exposure. In the store, your time near people carrying the virus is very limited. A meal and several hours visiting with relatives could greatly increase the viral load you receive and may be the difference between being asymptomatic or hospitalized. Of course, where I’m at we have to assume about 40% of the people we encounter are carrying the virus. Not the best odds at all. Stay safe.
IMHO I believe it’s not about the virus but control.
Would you really say this to someone who was dying or whose health was ruined for life? We are in this thing together and only together can we beat it. Stay safe.
Yes, I agree. Recent data and available treatment don’t jibe with this over the top (IMHO) lockdowns. And yes, several I know have had COVID19 and one passed away at 50 years old.
You are wearing a mask in the store. I doubt you’d be wearing a mask with your family members. Haven’t you heard about the two weddings where guests have gotten sick and some died? Of course, no one thought they were a carrier because they had no symptoms.
Some stores, here, recommend masks, but don’t require. I forgot to say I’m over 70 with several comorbidities. I realize what I am saying may not be politically correct, but these are beliefs that are common in our area. I don’t expect everyone to agree. BTW I wear a mask where the people I’m around seem uncomfortable with non mask wearers.
This is an unusual year to say the least. My wife asked if she could invite close friends to come and I said yes. His family usually has a big dinner together but has cancelled it. Their daughter and son-in-law both have Covid but they haven’t been together for over a month. The mother did drop off groceries for them. (Set on front stoop). I also volunteered to serve meals at our local mission knowing they may be short handed this year. We are reaching out while trusting God.
I’ll spend it alone as usual…
We are all having our normal Thanksgiving and then we have rented out a movie theater to see a movie, after that we might go look at some Christmas lights.
We planned an Alaska trip that turned into a Northern US and Eastern Seaboard trip to GA for the Holidays. Virus be damned, we’re here in GA to celebrate the blessings that only Family can share.
The usual family members, but no outsiders this year. The family members who work at the hospital are not attending due to working and being around so many covid patients.
1st time in 42 years just my Husband and me~ sad but this will end and we will all make up for lost time!
Just the two of us this year. Family is about 125 miles north of us, but spring will be better!
With a fight against lung cancer…it’ll be just the two of us. We’ll Skype with each adult families during the day. Getting out is just too risky for me.
There are no Guarantees in life … this could be the last chance.
We are having a larger than normal Thanksgiving. Granddaughter has friends in the army- no family here. They have been invited for turkey potluck. Everyone is bringing a dish or two. All total 14 for dinner!
I’m afraid to answer in case the government is watching.
I’ll be sharing Thanksgiving with family and friends ]Robert
I will be spending it alone. My husband just passed after 12 1/2 year battle with Alzheimer’s Disease. It was always just us but now just me. I know I am not alone with it just be ‘one’.
So sorry to hear about your husband, rvgrandma. Hang in there, take care, and stay healthy. Hugs. 🙂 —Diane at RVtravel.com
HUGS!! Sorry for your loss- bitter sweet! out of his misery 🙁
Just the two of us and charlituna the big yellow cat…we lost his “doggie-brother” Barni in Sept. so just us three.. Karen, Jim and Cha-Cha. (central Florida on the corner of Hither-N-Yon)
Outdoor backyard barbecue with two other local couples. All exactly according to California state guidelines.
Travel to visit family was canceled. Brother in-law is quarantined, so it seemed like a bad idea.
Going to my Daughter’s house this year. Only 4 miles away. My Son and his wife will join us and some of the Grandchildren too. We have all been in close contact recently and have been following all the rules. Should be fun but the other kids are not traveling down this year.
Just my husband and 2 dogs. We had to cancel plans for a family get together because of COVID. Hoping to see everyone for Christmas.
Don’t hold your breath on that!
We are camphosts in a state park and as usual we will have our Thanksgiving get together with our rangers and fellow camphosts.
No family get together this year. Girlfriend and I are staying put. We’ve got to get this virus under control instead of letting it control us.
Just me and the two dogs. Maybe in the desert outside Quartzsite, maybe at home in NV. Last year my sisters came to the RV park I was staying at and we had hotdogs for thanksgiving.
We will be at our oldest daughters house with 2 other children and 6 grandchildren and 2 military families enjoying the turkey with all the other stuff. We may also have another single military young man with us also. We are setting up outdoors on a huge patio in sunny South Florida.
We are celebrating thanksgiving with our son and daughter in law who like us have been isolated and only minimal outside shopping.
Absolutely spending the holiday with my grandkids. At my age each visit could be the last. Never pass up a chance. It’s an 1000+ mile (each way) trip but traveling in the RV is safer than going to the grocery store. BYW, where are all those crowded RV parks I keep reading about? This is my 3rd nite on the road, and each campground has been just me and a half dozen other intrepid travers.
Wife and I will stay home with the 3 beagles and Skype our children and grand kids. Medically don’t dare to chance it. Sad time in history but, we’ll make it. All fellow RVers be safe, stay safe cause summer will be here again to go. Best wishes to all during the upcoming holidays.
My wife and I decided to take a three week camping trip from mid-November through the first week in December. It’s the first time we’ve been away from family for Thanksgiving. It had nothing to do with COVID, the timing was just right for us. If we hadn’t gone camping we would have been with our son and his family for Thanksgiving.