Getting Home During The Pandemic
As we were preparing to travel to Finland in late February we had heard about the COVID virus but because there were still only a few cases in the US and Finland at that time, we decided to continue with our travel plans. By March 12, diagnosed cases of COVID-19 in the U.S. exceeded a thousand and the US declared a national emergency on March 13, and several travel bans to the US were in place. Finland shut its borders and closed non-essential businesses. As a result, most international flights were canceled, including ours and we scrambled to find flights home. I finally found a flight to Reno through London and Dallas. Fortunately, I did not contact COVID during my journey home.
