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Carmelita Brown, 77, has been painstakingly careful with her health over the past year, even after being fully vaccinated against COVID-19. “I’m older and African American, so I’m higher risk,” she says. When she recently flew from her home in Florida to Montana for her goddaughter’s wedding, she donned three masks and a face shield on the plane.
The 20-person, mostly outdoor affair was such a trouble-free experience that Brown is now itching to plan a summer trip with her kids and grandkids. Among the group vacations being discussed: a Mexican getaway; an Alaskan cruise (a do-over for a 2020 trip that was canceled); or, says Brown,“I was thinking Vancouver or Victoria, but the Canadian border is still shut.”