Column: A pandemic road trip can mean miles of anxiety. Things to know before you go

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Lopez: A pandemic road trip isn't for cowards. Things to know before you go

Drive north to Napa Valley from Los Angeles on Interstate 5, work my way back home over three days on the 101, and try to avoid doing anything that might expose me to the coronavirus.

During the pandemic, a lot of people have opted for motor home rentals over hotels, so I checked out that option. Courtney Leon of El Monte RV told me rental business has increased by three or four times in recent months. She said a 22-foot motel on wheels is now priced at $239 a day, and it sleeps four people comfortably, with a toilet, sink, shower, refrigerator, stove and microwave.

And the chain notes that “the room you stay in will likely not have been used for a period of 24 to 72 hours from the prior guest — a form of social distancing related to the life expectancy of the COVID-19 virus.” The Coalinga-Avenal rest stop was another 60 miles up the road, which seemed as far off as a reliable vaccine, but I made it in the nick of time.

I was somewhat less neurotic the next night at my hotel in Santa Cruz, and maybe even a bit less at my final hotel in Paso Robles. But the constant fear that I was going to touch something with a microscopic droplet of the lethal virus was taxing. Imagine what it would be like to be a housekeeper?Maria Mora, who cleans 10 rooms a day at a downtown Los Angeles hotel, later told me that she is nervous every time she walks into a room, even though she uses gloves and a mask.

 

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Did you see homeless people staying at the hotels? That's all the rage now. You'll usually see the homeless in the hotel common areas, smoking up a storm.

I took a planned road trip with my 80 year old mom at beginning of pandemic. I went into hotel first, got keys and wiped down everything in the room before my mom came in. I found out my mom likes to touch everything in a room, so more wiping surfaces 🤦🏻‍♀️

It’s doable. 1000 miles to Portland up I-5 in one day. But take one of these.

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I mean....I think I'm pretty vigilant about the virus...but this guy needs to chill.

Not sure how you liberals breath without panicking about *everything*.

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