Don’t Travel During a Pandemic: Getting Home Just in Time

In Episode 5 of On the Bar Fly, we share what might be the most important travel tip of all — during a pandemic or any global disaster:

Don’t travel.

This episode covers our journey home from overseas as the world began shutting down. The trip to Bangkok, Thailand and Sydney, Australia had been planned for months and was part of our yearly travel routine — and once the pandemic unfolded, everything changed fast.

We talk about the uncertainty, the constantly changing plans, and the nail-biting process of figuring out how to get home before borders closed and lockdowns began. Flights changed, routes shifted, and stress levels climbed — but we made it back just in time.

You’d think that would be the end of the adventure… but it wasn’t.

Lockdowns, quarantine, and even our vehicle being stuck in another country for weeks — racking up parking fees — became part of the story.

This episode is part travel tale, part cautionary reminder, and part real-time history of what it felt like to move through the world as it shut down.

🌍 International travel during COVID
✈️ Getting home before lockdown
😬 Stress, uncertainty & survival stories