Destinations Opening To Vaccinated Travelers
Laura Flippin Laura Flippin

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.”

Read More
Using Technology To Help With Travel
Laura Flippin Laura Flippin

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…

Read More
Beautiful Beaches
Laura Flippin Laura Flippin

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…

Read More
100 Places To Travel In 2021
Laura Flippin Laura Flippin

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…

Read More
The Last Time I Saw Paris
Laura Flippin Laura Flippin

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…

Read More
Island Living
Laura Flippin Laura Flippin

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…

Read More
Checkpoint Charlie
Laura Flippin Laura Flippin

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…

Read More
C.D.C. Order Requires Masks for Travel in U.S.
Laura Flippin Laura Flippin

C.D.C. Order Requires Masks for Travel in U.S.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Department of Health and Human Services recently issued an order requiring travelers in the United States to wear masks to help stop the spread of the coronavirus…

Read More
C.D.C. Order Requires Negative COVID-19 Test Within Three Days of Travel
Laura Flippin Laura Flippin

C.D.C. Order Requires Negative COVID-19 Test Within Three Days of Travel

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Department of Health and Human Services has issued that as of January 26, 2021, all travelers entering the United States by air are required to have a negative COVID-19 test within three days of travel OR proof of a COVID-19 infection within the past 90 days that the person has recovered from.

Read More