Re: How to enjoy safe road-trips during Covid-19 We took a road trip to Goa in Oct-2020 and below were some precautions we had taken:
1. Wearing masks at all times (except to eat quickly, while on highways at cruising speed, inside the hotel room, or in open grounds with nobody around).
2. Using sanitizers before exiting the car, after re-entering the car, and before / after touching any surface which may have got contaminated (we carried small sanitizer bottles in person).
3. Avoiding crowd (and most importantly, minimizing the time spent when in an area with many people).
4. Eating in restaurants which have taken generally better care around sanitization and are less crowded (McDonalds, Cafe Coffee Day, and even Kamat which used to be crowded during pre-Covid era!).
5. Using disposable toilet seat cover when using washrooms on the highway (particularly for children and elderly).
6. Cleaning the commonly touched surfaces in hotels with sanitizer wipes and fabric disinfectant spray on bed / pillows upon check-in.
7. Wearing masks in the hotel room during housekeeping and room service.
8. Using FASTag in toll booths.
We ate at restaurants, had filtered / mineral water, used credit cards / cash, as well as touched many surfaces inadvertently or when needed. Nothing happened to any of us. Quote:
Originally Posted by ruzbehxyz We, three friends did a road trip in the last week of October. The location was Zanskar, UT of Ladakh which is one of the remotest part of India.
Our main idea was to cross the new road from Shinkula into Padum, onwards to Dras and then do the Cliffhanger road with Sach pass. These are remote parts with very less tourists.
Some ideas and precautions:-
1. We used Ahmedabad as our first base because one of us had an investment place there.
2. From Ahmedabad we drove non stop to our base Manali and in the return we drove non stop from Chamba to Ahmedabad.
3. On the highway we did not visit any restaurant or dhaba as we carried food. We also had a stove for tea and all.
4. We used clean toilets at clean petrol pumps.
5. Used Fastag everywhere possible to minimize human interaction.
6. Every time we got off the car, we sanitized our hands. Masks were on throughout.
7. After Manali, we stayed at home stays in areas where there was no or minimum Covid.
8. We were tested at Khargiak village which is near the border of Himachal and UT of Ladakh.
9. Our breakfast and lunch was always our own food. At certain places we had warm dinner mainly because of negative temperatures and the body requiring it.
10. We carried our own water, about 80 litres.
The main idea was to minimize the human interaction and we were never admist any crowd. | |