PHILADELPHIA (WPVI) — If this was a normal summer, Michele McCloskey and her five children would be planning their summer vacation.
“We would have had our week scoped out already and the kids would have been looking forward to something,” said McCloskey.
Instead, the coronavirus has kept them home. However, she said her family has taken many day trips to various New Jersey beaches.
With states easing restrictions across the country, there has been an uptick in vacation bookings, according to a Villanova-based travel agent.
“We’ve had an enormous amount of calls coming in,” said Joshua Bush, of Avenue Two Travel. “It’s not necessarily pre-COVID levels but they’re stir crazy, they’ve been cooped up for too long and they are looking to plan that next vacation.”
Bush said his agency has seen an increase in fall air travel to western national parks, staycations to Center City Philadelphia and road trips to states like …