FOR R.T. RYBAK and his wife Megan O’Hara of Minneapolis, the spring and summer calendar was packed with travel plans. They were all ready to fly to the Norwegian Arctic, then visit their children in the Bay Area, detour down to the Channel Islands near Santa Barbara and finally swing through Yosemite with the educational travel group Road Scholar—the last two spots ticking off numbers 16 and 17 on their bucket-list quest to visit all 62 of America’s national parks.
“When the pandemic hit, we had to cancel,” said Mr. Rybak,…