My Travel Life Before Covid-19: A 12-Month Snapshot
I know it wasn’t that long ago that we were told it was going to be two weeks to flatten the curve, and perhaps the more pessimistic thought it would be two months, but I can’t imagine anyone speculating it would be two years before travel resumed as it was before March 2020. But here we are, not too long from March 2022, and there’s no indication that things will be too much different then from how they are now: countries in various stages of border closure, with numerous tests/proofs required to visit, and more proofs/test required once inside a country, regardless of “vaccination” status.
I had no idea that March 2019-February 2020 would represent one of the busiest travel periods of my life in the last decade, but for whatever reason, it was. That life is over, and I have no regrets because I never took it for granted. But I thought it would be useful to see how very different the rhythms of my life were when I was traveling almost every month of the year.
March 2019
A fairly busy month in Paris. I had just recently returned from one of the greatest trips of my life, a month in New Zealand. I needed some time to rest and get back into the swing of things. That said, I did manage to get up to Epernay for the first time in order to taste some Dom Perignon and hear the story of how this Benedictine…
