Rona ruined my vacation, have days to burn (2 Viewers)

Chicken Nugget · Jul 15, 2020

Title says it all. I'm in the Pacific Northwest and looking for a fall road trip. I still have a week of vacation to kill. All the stuff I find about the great fall migration trips seem to be east coast. Are there places down the west coast that rival NYC, Cape May, or Pelee Point? Just need to be pointed in the right direction and I will research your ideas. Thank you in advance.

birdmeister · Jul 15, 2020

I'm sure there are great spots in the Pacific Northwest, but the first two that come to my mind are in California. Point Reyes and Monterey Bay are two places I would absolutely love to visit, and are nationally renowned as migration hotspots.

Andy Adcock · Jul 15, 2020

First thing that comes to my mind, who or what is Rona?

Richard Prior · Jul 15, 2020

andyadcock said:
First thing that comes to my mind, who or what is Rona?

Oh Andy, it’s surely a USA way of saying the Coronavirus COVID 19 etc.

People ( me included) mistakenly think it was Churchill or George Bernard Shaw who mentioned UK and USA being “divided by a common language” but I’ve just researched it properly and the expression dates back a bit further to a short story by Oscar Wilde called The Canterville Ghost, 1887:

[Describing Mrs Otis]
Indeed, in many respects, she was quite English, and was an excellent example of the fact that we have really everything in common with America nowadays, except, of course, language.

Nightjar61 · Jul 15, 2020

Richard Prior said:
Oh Andy, it’s surely a USA way of saying the Coronavirus COVID 19 [/I]

I’m American and this is the first time I’ve ever heard of anything called “Rona”.

Dave

pianoman · Jul 15, 2020

Does seem to be a US tendency to shorten words by chopping off the first half rather than the second - eg "puter" for "computer", "shine" for "moonshine", I even heard "seng" for ginseng among Appalachian ginseng harvesters

Andy Adcock · Jul 15, 2020

Richard Prior said:
Oh Andy, it’s surely a USA way of saying the Coronavirus COVID 19 etc.

People ( me included) mistakenly think it was Churchill or George Bernard Shaw who mentioned UK and USA being “divided by a common language” but I’ve just researched it properly and the expression dates back a bit further to a short story by Oscar Wilde called The Canterville Ghost, 1887:

[Describing Mrs Otis]
Indeed, in many respects, she was quite English, and was an excellent example of the fact that we have really everything in common with America nowadays, except, of course, language.

This would seem to make sense now you mention it Richard but I am somewhat vindicated by Nightjar.

Chicken Nugget · Jul 15, 2020

andyadcock said:
First thing that comes to my mind, who or what is Rona?

Sorry. Covid , Corona, or the Rona as the youngsters refer to it. Since most of the US didnt take it serious we are going backwards and most travel if cancelled.

Chicken Nugget · Jul 15, 2020

pianoman said:
Does seem to be a US tendency to shorten words by chopping off the first half rather than the second - eg "puter" for "computer", "shine" for "moonshine", I even heard "seng" for ginseng among Appalachian ginseng harvesters

I read somewhere once that American English is one of the hardest languages to learn with all the slang and words we make up. Im sure its not true but we do have a lot.

Nutcracker · Jul 15, 2020

I thought it was going to be a critique on North Rona as a birding destination! Very good for seabirds, if you can get there . . . 3

Mike Crawley · Jul 15, 2020

In a calendar year which contains a significant birthday I have so far lost three holidays to the pandemic.
The only pre-booked holiday I have remaining is three weeks on Scilly in October.
Finger and toes crossed that this holiday is going to happen.

Senior Management fancies a trip in a campervan (Lake District, Scotland, etc.) and she’s actively researching the subject reasoning that not using a hotel or B&B and "camping" is a safer option.

Maybe Chicken Nugget's idea of a road trip is a good idea

Chicken Nugget · Jul 15, 2020

Mike C said:
In a calendar year which contains a significant birthday I have so far lost three holidays to the pandemic.
The only pre-booked holiday I have remaining is three weeks on Scilly in October.
Finger and toes crossed that this holiday is going to happen.

Senior Management fancies a trip in a campervan (Lake District, Scotland, etc.) and she’s actively researching the subject reasoning that not using a hotel or B&B and "camping" is a safer option.

Maybe Chicken Nugget's idea of a road trip is a good idea

Well if the rest of the country doesn't get in line we will be on lockdown again and ill have one big backyard bird list. Im a little old to sleep in my car now so it might just have to be a bunch of day trips if hotels are closed down.

Mike Crawley · Jul 15, 2020

Chicken Nugget said:
Well if the rest of the country doesn't get in line we will be on lockdown again and ill have one big backyard bird list. Im a little old to sleep in my car now so it might just have to be a bunch of day trips if hotels are closed down.

Well as a sprightly 65 year old, not looking forward to sleeping in a campervan but needs must

Jeff Hopkins · Jul 16, 2020

Assuming you're in WA or OR, you're still allowed into New Jersey, so Cape May is on the possibles list. :smoke:

For now.

KC Foggin · Jul 16, 2020

I don't believe you'll regret a trip to Cape May

KC Foggin · Jul 16, 2020

So was Rona a tropical storm/Hurricane?

GrebeOrGrackle · Jul 16, 2020

Chicken Nugget said:
Sorry. Covid , Corona, or the Rona as the youngsters refer to it. Since most of the US didnt take it serious we are going backwards and most travel if cancelled.

I think Americans took it seriously. The fact is.... You can hold an American back for just so long. We are busting out at this point. We live life without fear.

GrebeOrGrackle · Jul 16, 2020

KC Foggin said:
So was Rona a tropical storm/Hurricane?

Rona is the name of my insurance agent. Are there 2 meanings to the word.??

KC Foggin · Jul 16, 2020

please ignore my idiocy. I have never heard of Rona so I goggled it and it came up as a tropical storml/Hurricane.

Andy Adcock · Jul 16, 2020

GrebeOrGrackle said:
Rona is the name of my insurance agent. Are there 2 meanings to the word.??

Why would you assume that we all know what this means, perhaps you got the idea that this is a singularly American forum (it's not, by a very long way) but even they didn't know what it meant?

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