Wanderlust in the Time of Coronavirus (A GeoEx eBook)

Wanderlust in the Time of Coronavirus

Adventuring Close to Home & Around the World

our individual isolations connect us all. I’ve been buying gift cards for some of my favorite restaurants and bookstores—a small gesture of support and solidarity in these challenging times. And I’ve been learning how many good people and organizations are working overtime to help people; just one among many of these is Feeding America, which has expanded its efforts to feed the growing ranks of people in need. How about you? What have you been doing to keep your wanderlust alive? And how best can we help you thrive? One of the most inspiring outcomes of our global predicament has been how people have started coming together, on all kinds of levels, in all kinds of ways. Last week’s outpouring of responses from GeoEx travelers was a wonderful example of such coming together, and I warmly urge you to continue to share your recommendations and reflections. You can send them to me or share them with our wanderlust-loving community by posting your comments here. As I wrote last week, together we can turn this imposed isolation into a community celebration. We look forward to hearing from you! Finally, a note about sowing and reaping: Two weeks ago, shortly before the shelter in place directive was announced, a dear friend gave us some beautiful purple tulips. Their blooms brightened our days until the last petals fell. Yesterday I planted this gift in a corner of our little garden because, as every wanderluster knows, there is a time to reap and a time to sow—and when those tulips bloom again next spring, they will remind me of this surreal scene and of the importance of seeding, and tending, every dream. With that in mind, we at GeoEx will be sending some seeds your way in the days and weeks to come. This weekend we’ll spotlight a wonderful story by GeoEx staffer Jess Silber about her epiphanic trip to see gorillas in the Congo. And soon thereafter we’ll take you on an epic adventure to Antarctica through the photos of GeoEx’s Kate Doty.

We hope you’ll enjoy these seeds, and we hope they’ll sow some of your own travel dreams. Is there any special content you’d like to see from us as we prepare our virtual adventures? Please let us know! Thank you for your attention, and for sharing this journey— our journey—together!

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