John Grindrod: Pandemic times and travel, long time between visits By John Grindrod - Guest Columnist When it comes to travel, it’s rather difficult to convince my favorite co-pilot, Lady Jane, to return to a place we’ve already checked off the list of trips always in the developmental stages somewhere just above her pretty blue eyes. Now, she will occasionally make an exception, especially if the trip is European in nature or, domestically, if it involves that alluring combination of autumn and New England. However, during our pandemic times, when so many remain pretty much tethered to their domiciles, I told her I’d found a very friendly condo price, thanks to my friends Gene and Sharon Reaman, for the week between Christmas and New Year’s in Hilton Head’s Sea Pines. And, despite the fact that we’d availed ourselves of the special charms of the South Carolina Low Country before three times, she was all in. And, so was I, despite my having been to Hilton Head several more times pre-Jane, since my sister and brother-in-law had a condo there for years.