I’ve accepted that it’s going to be years before I travel again.

Same here, by air anyway.

Fortunately, even before "covid" everything about air travel was ALREADY made so indescribably tedious, odious, and loathsome—from the instant the alarm goes off four hours too early in the morning until you collapse at your destination and waste the first day just recuperating from the travel and waiting for your luggage to be rerouted—that not flying anywhere for an extended period of years isn't any sort of punishment.

It's a reprieve.