It's hard to fully understand how many things have been ruined by COVID-19. Vacations. Weddings. Sports. Lives. Careers. Literally any and all things that involve leaving the house. It's all been thrown into disarray by the pandemic.
One thing that's been derailed by the virus is a record-breaking streak of daily Disneyland visits by 47-year-old Huntington Beach, California, resident Jeff Reitz. When the park was forced to close last month, Reitz had been visiting it for almost 3,000 consecutive days.
Reitz and a friend had originally planned to go every day of the year 2012, as they were both unemployed at the time, and they wanted a project to get them out of the house. But after they made it through the year, they decided to keep going. The friend eventually stopped their streak in 2014, but Reitz stuck at it until Friday, March 13—the last day before the park's closure.
To give you an idea of how long that is, Reitz would have been inside Disneyland on the day Mitt Romney failed to become president, and the day Blue Ivy was born, and for the releases of the final Twilight and first Hunger Games movies.
I spoke to Jeff about his streak, and what he plans to do now...READ MORE
