I talk a big travel game on this site for someone who is in the midst of a global pandemic, where it is frowned upon to be going to the next city over much less a new country. But the thing about this time is that it is going to end, that’s not me being naively optimistic, it’s just the truth, and while we are slouched away in our homes grinding away at school/ work and fantasizing about being on a white sand beach, it is just going to fuel more peoples desires to break free and explore.
Alpenglow: the golden glow cast upon mountains with the rising and setting of the sun. We're glad someone gave a name to this phenomenon because it always leaves us lost for words.
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— Banff & Lake Louise Tourism (@banfflakelouise) February 18, 2021
All that pent up energy we are experiencing has to go somewhere once COVID ends and while I think a lot of that will go to entertainment based functions such as concerts, festivals and bars, I think that people are going to be travelling a whole lot more.
Think if it this way, at one point or another COVID has made us reflect on our lives, all we have accomplished, what we never got to do and what we hope to still do. We have looked at this time (that will likely carry on for another year) as a period (more or less) completely wasted at home and people reflecting on their priorities will say to hell with social norms and constructs. People who said they were going to backpack Europe in their 20’s and never did may decide to do it now in their 40’s, people who have wanted to road trip across Canada and keep putting it off are going to now go and people who have always wanted to see the Eiffel Tower or Machu Picchu are going to do that.
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Yes, travelling for the sake of travelling won’t be for the young and carefree or the insanely wealthy anymore, it’ll be for the people who want to explore and break away from the suppression we have all been dealing with for the past year.
I think the big lesson in COVID for anyone out there racking their brain trying to think positively about this pandemic is that life is short, whether you apply it to seeing the world like I am, or to any other area in your life and I think people are going to go nuts when this ends and really break free.
So keep fantasizing about where you are going to go and what you are going to do, save up now while you can, and go nuts when this ends, I’m sure everyone else will be too.