Summer Is Bursting the Quarantine Bubble

The first weekend in June, Cyré Olivia Coleman, 29, a student in Randolph, Mass., did something that even a month earlier would have felt like a far-fetched dream: took a family vacation.

Since March Ms. Coleman hadn’t left her home, which she shares with her mother, brother, 4-month-old-daughter and the father of her child.

“We’ve gotten pretty creative, so we haven’t gone stir-crazy,” she said. “We put my daughter into a laundry basket and splash around with her teething toys. We go on walks around our neighborhood because it isn’t so populated.”

By the beginning of June, however, it was time for an adventure. “We decided that since we’ve been home all this time we could go to my mom’s friend’s lake house,” Ms. Coleman said. They all drove to North Conway, a village in New Hampshire set amid lakes, forests and mountains.