Wanderlust in the Time of Coronavirus (A GeoEx eBook)

Wanderlust in the Time of Coronavirus

March 26, 2020

ADVENTURING CLOSE TO HOME & AROUND THE WORLD

L ast week I sent you my reflections on “Wanderlust in the Time of Coronavirus.” The response to that email was tremendously heartening and inspiring! More than 70 readers took the time to write back to me, sending everything from poems and paintings to book and film recommendations to heartwarming descriptions of travels past and to come, and strategies to continue to thrive within our current confines. Thank you! I can hardly express how much that response buoyed me and all of us here at GeoEx. Some of you sent book recommendations. Eileen Kurahashi wrote, “I’m stuck in Australia and reading The Biggest Estate on Earth , by Bill Gammage.” Claude Bernstine recommended Walking the Kiso Road , by William Scott Wilson, and Danniece Bobeche sent a photo of the book she’s reading, Caribbean , by James Michener. Marty Krasney wrote, “I’d like to suggest The Leopard , by Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa—book best, movie fine.” And Stephen Joseph Kukoy kindly wrote, “I recently reread your book, The Way of Wanderlust , and enjoyed it thoroughly. I agree with you—‘travel is my religion’ as well, so to make up for the inability to travel physically at this time,

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