"Are You" traveling for Thanksgiving this year? Are you getting tested to do so?

What if I am traveling (by car a couple hours) to a park and staying in my own cabin with my immediate household and spending time outside in the cold hiking?

I would love to travel to be with mother and daughter but I can't go. My mother is battling cancer and my daughter struggles with MS so it's best till things calm down in the spring next year. 

I'm baking the Turkey for three total, I make the best turkey and stuffing . That's my contribution for Thanksgiving and it will great. I hope its the same for everyone else.

Peace

No.  We were going to travel from the Twin Cities to my in-laws near Madison. I didn't want to but my wife hasn't been able to see much of her parents this year so I was biting my tongue. A few days ago she decided it was a bad idea to be traveling around, even by car.  Fine by me.  Just a quiet four-day weekend at home.  Put up the tree and some R and R.

We were planning on going to a small gathering at my sister's place.  She was planning on setting up 4 small tables in her two-car garage with the door open.  I didn't like the idea of eating in a cold garage for Thanksgiving so was much relieved yesterday when she called the deal off.  She's ordering us individually packaged Thanksgiving meals for us to pick up as take out.  With COVID raging, we're laying low!  Why take chance for one meal?  Stay home and give thanks for your (hopefully) continued good health!

g under p said:

I would love to travel to be with mother and daughter but I can't go. My mother is battling cancer and my daughter struggles with MS so it's best till things calm down in the spring next year. 

I'm baking the Turkey for three total, I make the best turkey and stuffing . That's my contribution for Thanksgiving and it will great. I hope its the same for everyone else.

Peace

We are making a full meal for my wife, my son, and I.  My son with eat some mashed potatoes, some rolls, and some apple pie.  My wife and I will pig out.  We arranged for someone to come by on Friday and pick up what we leave on the porch, which will be leftovers packaged for delivery to people in need of meals.  Sucks that we cannot go and help distribute or do something on the actual day...but there is a pandemic going on and this is how we will balance trying to find a sense of the tradition and not being wasteful.

No Zoom, no travel, nothing. 

Stay home as well. Going to ditch the traditional thanksgiving food requirements. This year it will be slow cooked ribs, baked mac’n cheese, collards, jalapeño corn bread, and pumpkin pie.

jerparker20 said:

Stay home as well. Going to ditch the traditional thanksgiving food requirements. This year it will be slow cooked ribs, baked mac’n cheese, collards, jalapeño corn bread, and pumpkin pie.

mmmm. I just mentally made an adjustment to my planned Thanksgiving meal.

Not even getting together with the family that is inside our exposure circle.  Something most rubes don't understand is that you can make exposure like a chain and it only takes one link to break it.  
Sister-in-law, her husbandhusband their two kids, mother-in-law, wife, and son.  That's the exposure circle and it coincides with the normal Thanksgiving meal...so we should eat together and be good, right? No.  for example, If brother-in-law catches it and comes to Thanksgiving at onset of symptoms or before, he can spread to any one of us or all of us.  If he catches it and we don't get together it has to move up the chain to his wife before it can move to us giving us time to sever the link before transmission.   This is why congregation is so dangerous.