Jamie and I hadn't been outside of Texas since 2019.
When COVID hit, we went into lockdown the same day as everyone else in March of 2020, but took a lot longer to step away from safety protocols. Add in that my employment has been... a ride since COVID hit, and circumstances have made it difficult to think ahead or plan a vacation.
We took some local AirBNB trips and we went to San Antonio, but we hadn't really gone anywhere in years.
But on June 13th we flew out mid-day, and returned early in the evening of June 17th. A short trip, but travelling for us is an ordeal. Jamie has to schedule dialysis at a local clinic, and we don't tend to have long days of just moving around.
For a first trip out of town in a while, we chose something we knew, and something I was desperate to do - get back to Chicago and take in a Cubs game at Wrigley Field. And a good year for it! Cubs are several games at the top of the the National League Central right now, with Pete Crow-Armstrong a superstar in the making, and Seiya Suzuki also on a hitting streak. We have a third baseman in Matt Shaw, and our defense is sometimes better than our relatively solid offense.