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Welcome to my blog! I am starting this blog to keep my fellow friends and travelers up to date on all things travel. Please follow along for weekly posts on covid-19 protocols, what's open, new destinations, and travel tips. I am thrilled to see travel slowly opening up and appreciate your support.
CDC drops Cruise Travel Health Notice
After more than two years, the CDC has dropped its Travel Health Notice for cruising. “Travelers will make their own risk assessment when...
Julie C. Harris
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Begin 2022 with Wellness
Even if you’ve been fortunate enough to avoid illness or at least severe illness during the pandemic, we’ve all lived through a traumatic...
Julie C. Harris
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Merry Christmas! Here's to Travel in 2022!
Wherever you’re celebrating, we hope you have a safe and happy festive season. If you’re at home, we look forward to new adventures in...
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Destination Spotlight: Fiji
Bula! Visitors to Fiji will hear the friendly and boisterous greeting from the locals once more when the South Pacific island nation...
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A Return to France
Paris is always a good idea. Even now though you might notice some COVID precautions, and some more bicycles thanks to new bike lanes,...
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Destination Spotlight: India
India is home to approximately one out of every six people on Earth and more than 50,000 years of human history. To put it bluntly, there...
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Destination Spotlight: Argentina and Chile
Patagonia might not have been inhabited by giants, as Spanish explorers initially thought, but the landscape sure could give giants a...
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London is back and why you need to book now for 2022
In a typical year (remember those?) January is the busiest month for travel planning. Families get together over the holidays, talk about...
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What the U.S. reopening means for your travel
Beginning in November, the U.S. will allow vaccinated travelers from 33 countries, including China, Brazil, South Africa, India and the...
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"The E.U.'s safe list update does not mean you can't go to Europe".
You’ve no doubt heard that the European Union removed the U.S. from its safe list of countries where COVID-19 case counts are lower than...
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What is travel like in 2021?
July 7, 2021 Did you know that even if you’re traveling to a European country that doesn’t require fully vaccinated travelers to take a...
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Destination spotlight: Portugal
June 23, 2021 While Spain dominates the territory on the Iberian Peninsula, tucked into the western corner is a country that punches well...
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More reopenings for summer travel
May 24, 2021 Each announcement of a border reopening or removal of quarantine requirements comes with a feeling of euphoria about...
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How to go to Europe this summer
May 5, 2021 After so much bad news and so many border closures throughout the pandemic, we’ll take good news whenever we can get it. And...
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Destination Spotlight: Bermuda
April 26, 2021 In so many ways, Bermuda stands alone. Geographically speaking, it is by itself in the Atlantic, well to the north of the...
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Most Popular World Heritage Sites
April 21, 2021 Most popular World Heritage sites on each continent This week we celebrate World Heritage day and the many wonderful...
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Destination spotlight: Egypt
Even to the people we call the ancients, Egypt was ancient. The pyramids at Giza had lorded over the Western Desert for two thousand...
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Destination spotlight: Greece
Myth and daily life are so intertwined in Greek life you can’t help but lose yourself in time and space. Each place you visit has...
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Should I stay or should I go?
With more than a million vaccinations per day and the number steadily rising but COVID-19 still very much a part of our lives, travelers...
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New adventures in store for 2021 and beyond
The world still needs time to heal, but there is universal optimism among the travel community that safe and responsible international...
Julie C. Harris
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