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When the Journey Is Our Destination
Choosing between traveling outwards, inwards, or staying in place
The highlight of the spare room in our home is a map of the world. The rectangular 5" x 3" laminated sheet attached to the wall with heavy-duty double-sided tape is a standard representation-irregular land masses interrupting various shades of blue that cover two-thirds of the earth’s surface.
What makes this particular map special are the colorful stickers that dot various locations over its shiny surface. Little circles in four colors, one for each member of the family, mark the cities we have visited. While the map remained unchanged over the years, the number of dots increased as our family, individually and collectively, stepped into new countries and continents.
Until the year of the pandemic.
Remembering past travels
After a memorable five-day safari in Tanzania in August 2019, our family had joked that it would be difficult to top that holiday. The husband had successfully climbed Mount Kilimanjaro, the girls and I had enjoyed our seaside stay in Zanzibar, and all of us had loved chasing the “big 5” across the Serengeti.
Little did we know that the challenge of 2020 would not lie in visiting an exotic country but within the…
