September is now within sight. It seems unusual for us to not have any plans for the upcoming winter. In recent years, we've generally had air tickets and accommodation completely arranged by this time of the year. For example, this entry shows we had trans-Pacific air tickets before mid-May last year.
I'm not worried in the least as we are profoundly flexible. We will not be in competition with the usual travel hordes as the whole world is all in the same boat, so to speak. We will take what may.
I did look back to our first year of early retirement. In 2014, I finished working at BCIT during the last week of October. We had no definite plans for the winter at that point. In fact, it a while before we'd picked Puerto Vallarta, Mexico as our first winter destination. Moreover, we were well into November before we found a rather last-minute place to rent. Still, we successfully flew away for that winter on US Thanksgiving day.
Our time living in Mexico turned out as the perfect way to get used to spending five months in a warm place during Vancouver's dreary weather. Winters in Egypt, Malaysia, Cambodia, Bali, and Sri Lanka have followed.
So planning for this winter can wait. We will see what happens in the world because of COVID-19 and play it all by ear. As I said, we have the ultimate flexibility.