Drivers along Ridge Road might be able to see horses at the Hill ‘n Dale farm near Barrington Hills. (Paul Valade | Staff Photographer)
As the novelty of binge-TV, sourdough starters and cutting one’s own hair wears off, a collective COVID-19-induced cabin fever is settling on the region.
Is there any escape from these four walls that doesn’t involve a joyless walk in the cold spring rain?
Two words. Road trip.
“We get the top off the Jeep and turn the heat on,” Lake Zurich’s Diane Kowalski said, describing her COVID-19 getaway. “I call it wind therapy. There’s nothing like the wind in your face to relax you. Forget about the crisis.”
Kowalski, a retired nurse and teacher, and daughter Allison, a substitute teacher, “just drive … singing at the top of our lungs,” usually to Jimmy Buffett or country, Kowalski said.
Sometimes they’ll cruise by the Blarney Island pub on Grass Lake to relive live concerts. Most often it’s where the spirit takes them — north on Route 12, hang a right and … hello, Antioch. Or Lakemoor. “I’d never heard of it,” Kowalski said.
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