I remember exactly where I was when Covid-19 really started to impact travel. It was March 2020: I was in the UK, watching a news broadcast about how the country was shutting down all travel while simultaneously reading a notification on my phone that my flight back to the United States the following day was canceled. Fortunately, I managed to rebook the flight and got back home safely, and the world settled in for months and years of limited travel, closed borders, and homemade bread-baking (my focaccia came out beautifully). That UK trip had been my first solo trip abroad, and it gave me a taste for travel that I hadn't felt since the family trips of my youth, when my father would schlep us kids through airports and across oceans on journeys of discovery. As an adult, I craved adventure again, so once the world began to adjust to Covid-19 and travel became easier, I went back on the move. "Move" turned out to be more accurate than I expected; I went back to the UK in 2021 and lived there for six months, and then after six months back in the US, I moved to Australia, where I still live. Over the course of 2022, I flew more than 65,000 miles (104,700 kilometers) and traversed four continents. Some places had strict Covid-19 protocols, while others were fairly breezy to pass through. After all that, I feel equipped to share some helpful tips for long-distance travel in a post-Covid world. |
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