Departure

We’re leaving from Stratford, Ontario to go to Iceland today on May, 30, 2022. Our flight doesn’t leave until 11:30 pm however we have concerns about issues at the airport. Stratford is 1.5 hours away from Pearson Airport providing you don’t have any traffic delays. Traffic an add another hour onto the trip. International flights used to be arrive 2 hours earlier however now due to COVID there’s new obstacles. One was the PCR COVID testing. There have been many guidelines to the extent of proof within a 24 hour window of travel, which is not an easy task since testing and obtaining results varied with many cobra constraints. Luckily for us we didn’t have to jump through that hoop as it was recently just was lifted. The other new obstacle post covid is due to labour shortages and many people have left their jobs for a different direction. The Government help service desk employees work from home, you hear dogs barking on the phone, they put you on hold without explanation for long periods of time. So we have an airport filled with people looking to mentally escape and the only people that can help them are people who left their jobs for something better. Then their finding their job isn’t any better, they aren’t properly trained and the crowd is frothing at the bit. I’m expecting we’ll be challenged today. So we made a conscious decision to go very early so we can remain mentally at ease while we plug ourselves into insanity in the search of bathing in the wonder of the world. To see what nature has created.Read more