We were on a big trip in March. Planned for over a year. Going to South Africa with my partner and their family to finally see their home. Started in Amsterdam, had 5 days booked there. The country had shut museums and everything down, but we were going to make most of it and then get to our final destination, which had basically no cases .
The day we got to Amsterdam the Canadian government finally said “no non-essential travel”. Then two days later “if you are abroad you should come back home while you can”. So March 14th we made the decision to cancel rest of our trip, and get the earliest flight back we could. We had to extend our stay in Amsterdam by a day, and luckily got a flight out after that extension.
But also very happy we didn’t get to South Africa. Their lock down that came into effect when we would have been there was no joke... I don’t know if we’d be home yet.
Since then I’ve been pretty willing to just go with the flow. Just can’t control anything right now.