Destinations Opening To Vaccinated Travelers
As Monica Buchanan Pitrelli of CNBC writes, “The list of places that’s welcoming vaccinated people is growing by the week. Proof of vaccines is easing travel restrictions to some places, and is the only way travelers can gain entrance to others.”
Using Technology To Help With Travel
The New York Times recently published an article titled “How to Use Tech to Prepare for Travel in a Pandemic: Even as vaccines make it safer to travel, planning a trip is becoming increasingly complicated.” As author Brian X Chen says…
Beautiful Beaches
Travel + Leisure recently published an article titled 25 Most Beautiful Beaches in the World. Travel + Leisure writes, “With all due respect to mountain people, there's simply nothing in this world like a beautiful beach…
Try A Cuisine For Every State
Condé Nast Traveler recently published a great guide of “The Food Worth Traveling For in Every State.” As the editor states, “Two years ago we set out to identify a signature dish for each state, from Sonoran dogs in Arizona to cheese curds in Wisconsin. For the second iteration of this list, we wanted to go beyond the classics—the food everyone tells you to try when you visit—and highlight chefs and cuisines that…”
100 Places To Travel In 2021
At the end of last year, USA Today wrote a great article titled Pandemic wanderlust: 100 places we're yearning to travel in 2021 and beyond…
A Year of Covid
Today a family member who was exposed to COVID had to cancel an airline ticket, as they must now must quarantine instead of traveling. While they’re grateful for the airline’s flexibility and refunding of the ticket (full disclosure: they were within the 24-hour cancellation period for refunds), it was nonetheless disheartening to realize that, a year into COVID, this is still where we are…
The Last Time I Saw Paris
Almost everyone can point to a memory of the last place they traveled to on vacation before COVID arrived in the United States in early 2020. Looking through some photos this week, I noted that my last overseas trip was to Switzerland and Italy in July 2019, which seems a lifetime ago…
Island Living
I’m fascinated by many things about islands, and not just the touristy parts of them. Hawaii, for example, is a beautiful place, and offers so much to see that you can’t take it all in during just one visit. But it also strikes me as an interesting place to live and work, with the practicalities of housing, shopping, finding health care, and all the other routine facets of daily living being both graced and challenged by being on an island…
Checkpoint Charlie
I wasn’t alive when the Berlin Wall was quickly established in August 1961, but I had the opportunity to see it in person in the late 1980s, when its existence was still as chilling and ominous as it was at its inception. On a backpacking trip in 1987, our group took a train from Moscow to West Berlin, a route which then required transiting through the Soviet Union and into the heart of East Germany surrounding the divided city of Berlin…
By Boat Across the Channel
Back in ye olden times, or at least the 1980s, there was no Channel Tunnel (aka “Chunnel”) to swiftly transport you from the UK to France. Plus, for most travelers, plane flights were either expensive or inconvenient or both. The cheaper way of travel, especially for backpackers and weekend visitors, was to catch a boat across the water.