When 2021 rolls around, plenty of people will be jumping straight on planes to make up for holidays and trips scrapped by the pandemic and lockdown.
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Orange's Jack Besgrove is hoping to be among them, but instead of setting his sights on European sights or Thai beaches, he's not looking for a relaxing holiday.
No, Besgrove's hoping to be playing for Australia at the softball Under 23s World Cup in Argentina.
The 16-year-old was picked as part of the 30-man squad for the 2021 tournament, which will be the first time that age group has held a World Cup.
Besgrove and his teammates will head to New Zealand in March next year - assuming travel restrictions lift - to take part in the New Zealand Club Championships as a pre-tournament run, with a squad of 15 or 16 to be picked from those games.
By then, his selection might have sunk in.
"I was pretty excited to be picked in the squad, especially on being 16 in an under 23s age group, it was pretty good," Besgrove said.
"I wasn't expecting it at all. I was walking into school and my phone buzzed and it was a close friend - he tagged me in the post announcing it and opened it thinking 'oh what's this' and my name was at the top of the list."
His age won't stop him giving it his all, either.
"The aim is to obviously prepare to get to New Zealand and play well and make a case, to get them to say 'even though he is 16 he's here to play'," Besgrove said.
"But I'm here to learn really, as I am with most teams."
He admitted the tournament and travel is still very much up in the air, with international travel slowed to a crawl and restrictions all over the world.
Coronavirus has also made his world harder, too, having to cancel Sydney training sessions and club competition across the mountains - in which Besgrove was due to play - also scrapped.
"I was travelling to Sydney for a bit but then they said you were only supposed to travel within your region so that didn't last long, maybe four weeks or so," he said.
"[Competition] was meant to start and then had to cancel again ... we're waiting for it to re-open."
He said not having access to training had made things difficult.
"It's a bit hard at the moment but there's a timeframe of six weeks and we start again, fingers crossed it's a bit less than that with our current situation, we seem to be going alright," Besgrove said.
"I've just going to the gym and keeping skills up - we've got a net at home."
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Max Stainkamph
Max joined the CWD in September 2017, leaving the big smoke of Melbourne to come to Orange, where he stayed until 2020.
Max joined the CWD in September 2017, leaving the big smoke of Melbourne to come to Orange, where he stayed until 2020.
