Only you can judge when the time to travel is right for you, and there's no real right or wrong answer when it comes to someone's own comfort level with things.
In my case, the factors that go in to how willing I am to go on a trip are...
- Will I be able to do enough of what I want to do? Will sights, attractions, restaurants, museums and the like be open? Will there be restrictions or curfews that'd leave a trip involving little more than sitting around in an overseas hotel room, looking out my window upon a city I can't do much of anything in?
- Does it seem the place I'm traveling to can accommodate me, and I won't be a burden upon it? Even with vaccination and testing, I could unwittingly catch and pass covid on to others. Can their hospitals accommodate me, and the people I might infect?
- Am I comfortable with the prospect of having to wait it out in a hotel for an extra few days or week if I get a positive test?
Notice how I'm accepting the fact that risk is inherent to anything I do, and my calculus is more about accepting what could come with getting covid than avoiding it entirely. It's the same at home, really - since summer 2021 (that point at which I was fully vaccinated, my partner was fully vaccinated, and vaccination was available to all adults in our community) we've gone to the movies a few times; we've taken a couple domestic trips; we've gone to a wedding and some parties; we're back at work, in-person, as usual; we went to a convention with thousands of other people (where masks and vaccines were required); we've dined in an restaurants.
We still make it a point to wear masks, have each gotten our boosters, and there are some places we still choose to avoid. For instance, we live in Nevada and we avoid casinos because they're full of people drinking alcohol and smoking cigarettes (maskless, of course); we switched gyms because our old one was simply not enforcing any mask requirements at all; we try to avoid peak times at restaurants or movies, stick to places with reserved seating, and so on. We have a bunch of the Abbott at-home lateral flow antigen tests at home, so we can give ourselves a quick test before or after a trip or party, or even if we're just feeling a bit under the weather or have a sore throat or something (they're $25/kit at CVS and Walgreens).
At a certain point, though, it became apparent we were no longer striving for being entirely free of covid, and were more looking at the prospect of having to live (smartly, and as carefully as possible) with it. It also became apparent we might get stuck being held hostage, so to speak, by the unvaccinated, and we didn't want that. We acknowledge risk exists, accept that for what it is, manage it best we can, and proceed with living and embracing life and enjoying ourselves.
