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When Good Vacations Go Nowhere
Canada, Current Affairs, Pandemic, Travel

When Good Vacations Go Nowhere

Oct 30, 2022 0 1

These are not halcyon days for nonrev fliers. Domestic flights continue to be randomly canceled, which makes it a challenge to get anywhere in the U.S. beyond your home airport. My home airport happens to be considered the gateway to Europe, but even that’s a mess–it’s easy to...

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Avoiding Cancun
Mexico, Travel

Avoiding Cancun

Apr 30, 2022 0 0

To Raul: I’m sorry that I never returned to the resort beach to claim my spot under the palapa. To Luís: I’m sorry that I undertipped you at dinner on the first night of our vacation–we made up for it, though. To everyone on our plane flying into Cancun: I’m sorry you...

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Quit Bellyachin’ About the Biennale
Italy, Travel

Quit Bellyachin’ About the Biennale

Apr 24, 2022 0 0

I’m always amused at articles that position the Venice Art Biennale as something to be looked down by normal people. Take, for instance, this Vanity Fair article that’s dripping with sarcasm about celebrities and the celebrity art world getting special treatment and noticed for...

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Making lemonade
France, Italy, Japan, Mexico, Pandemic, Portugal, Travel

Making lemonade

Feb 7, 2022 0 1

It feels like a very long time since I was able to post a year’s wishlist at a time when travel seems not just possible–but probable. That’s not to say that this year hasn’t been fraught with cancellations so far; I’m just choosing to make lemonade wherever...

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The Cabin Behind the Saloon: A Cautionary Tale
Travel, United States

The Cabin Behind the Saloon: A Cautionary Tale

Oct 5, 2021 0 0

“I’m here to check-in for the cabin.” I stand at the bar in a dim, run-down saloon a few yards off the Seward Highway, just outside of Anchorage, eyeing the bartender–a redhead in a Circle Jerks tshirt and sewing machine bobbin earrings. “Okay, it’s right out...

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Mid-Pandemic to Amsterdam
Netherlands, Pandemic, Travel

Mid-Pandemic to Amsterdam

Jul 11, 2021 0 1

Despite the massive rebound for air travel that has occurred after the success of the COVID-19 vaccination program, there still aren’t a ton of people traveling internationally. Part of it is that there are many countries who don’t have great access to vaccinations or haven’t managed to bring...

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Tokyo Revisited (and Rescheduled)
France, Italy, Japan, Pandemic, Travel

Tokyo Revisited (and Rescheduled)

Apr 23, 2021 0 1

Thanks to the COVID-19 vaccines currently available (I have been fully vaxxed and past my two-week waiting period for about a week now), things seem to be on the verge of changing as far as travel goes. Greece will be allowing vaxxed Americans (and others) back into the country as of May 15....

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That Which the Sea Breaks Against
Travel, United States

That Which the Sea Breaks Against

Feb 12, 2021 0 0

Alaska, here we come. In seven months, anyway. It wasn’t intentional. I mean, sure, I’d been eyeballing post-Labor Day flight deals, thinking maaaaaaaaaybe. Maybe it’ll be safe to travel by then. Maybe we’ll be vaccinated by then. Maaaaybe. But I still held off from...

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Tokyo At Home
Travel

Tokyo At Home

Nov 21, 2020 0 1

It’s not every day that you celebrate being married to someone for twenty years. Marriage is generally not something I expect to take permanently–let’s say that the relationships that have been modeled for me are fleeting at best in many cases. But Mr. Pretty is stuck with me,...

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Where the Puffins and the Glaciers Roam…and Beyond
Current Affairs, Iceland, Travel

Where the Puffins and the Glaciers Roam…and Beyond

Jun 7, 2020 0 0

Like most people who leisure travel on the regular, I’m jonesing to get on an airplane and . . . go somewhere. I’m also concerned about potential exposure to the novel coronavirus because I am not interested in contracting COVID-19, mild case or not. The last few days I’ve...

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