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The 18 Best TV Shows for Vicarious Travel Thrills
Jason Bailey//41 views/1 comments
Circle the globe with these international thrillers, comedies, dramas and documentaries. There’s no getting around it: Most of us won’t be traveling for a good,...
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In Search of Zambia’s Stunning Wildlife: A Virtual Safari
Marcus Westberg//36 views/1 comments
The World Through a Lens A young chacma baboon with its mother, near Victoria Falls.Credit... With travel restrictions in place worldwide, we’re turning to phot...
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How to Store Your Travel Gear
Sarah Firshein//40 views/2 comments
Travel Tips There’s no better time to herd those neck pillows, international adapters and 3.4-ounce bottles into formation, even if they’re not actively being u...
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For Shut-In Pilgrims, the World’s Holiest Sites Are a Click Away
Debra Kamin//34 views/1 comments
The pandemic has closed holy sites across the globe, but virtual reality is providing worshipers a digital window into ceremonies during touchstone holidays. Fo...
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Paul Theroux Recalls a Fear-Filled Lockdown
Paul Theroux//30 views
In 1966, the writer was in Uganda at a time of curfew and violence. It shaped his thinking about travel writing’s imperative to bear witness. In this season of ...
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Bring in the Robot Cleaners: Travel Industry Innovations for the Pandemic
Elaine Glusac//31 views/1 comments
“Private” hotels, online tour-company teasers for future travelers, and other ways that travel companies are keeping their businesses alive. While most hotels t...
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In This Moment of Solitude, Books Can Be Our Passports
Jordan Kisner//35 views/1 comments
Faced with the cancellation of her book tour, a writer turns to books that evoke a sense of place — and recommends 8 books that might take you somewhere, too. A...
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Snowbirds Ask: Should We Stay or Should We Go?
Andrea Salcedo//26 views
Millions of older Americans make an annual migration between the North and the South. The coronavirus pandemic has them questioning their plans to return home. ...
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Expert Advice: Should ‘Snowbirds’ Stay or Go?
Andrea Salcedo//36 views/1 comments
Because they are older, this population is at higher risk of Covid-19 complications. Here’s how to think about heading North or staying put. For the millions of...
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The New Travel Document: Photograph of an Empty Plane
Julie Weed, Stephen Hiltner//37 views
The dramatic falloff in air travel is captured in travelers’ photographs of their recent flights. The story of air travel’s shutdown can be told in numbers. Hel...
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When the World Stops, Traveling in John Keats’s ‘Realms of Gold’
Frances Mayes//30 views
In 1820, the British poet spent 10 days quarantined in the Bay of Naples as typhus raged, an enforced stillness mirrored by our own. In October of 1820, typhus ...
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Airlines’ New Operating Mode: Flexible
Elaine Glusac//26 views
Update With pandemic-related travel restrictions in place, airlines are showing a new generosity when it comes to rebooking. Here are the policies of the bigges...
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Voices From Travel’s Frontlines: ‘Fasten Your Seatbelts’
Emily Palmer, Mike Arnot//42 views
We spoke with eight travel and hospitality workers, from California to Croatia, who have been working as the coronavirus spreads. They shared similar concerns a...
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Atlanta’s Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport Is Failing to Adequately Screen for Coronavirus
Reid Champlin//33 views
As Americans abroad frantically flew home before the global coronavirus outbreak trapped them overseas, the Trump administration repeatedly assured both the tra...
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How to See the World When You’re Stuck at Home
Reif Larsen//31 views
When you are quarantined or cancel your trip, you can still go on a journey. The secret? The author Reif Larsen says it’s Google Street View. The other day, anx...