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My Reverse Homecoming

Title (Dublin Core)

My Reverse Homecoming

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Description (Dublin Core)

The first trip my wife and I took after the COVID travel restrictions were lifted was a doozy. Our first flight in over a year was a three-hop journey from our small Montana town to Alaska for an old friend’s wedding. With a six-month-old. On our laps. The whole time. My wife and I had our first round of vaccines but worried about our daughter, who was still far too young to have a dose. After much risk assessment and consultation with our pediatrician, we decided to go for it. Mask wear was strictly enforced on the airplane and in most of the public places we found ourselves, and there was a profound and somewhat discomforting sense that we and our fellow travelers were searching for a way to exist comfortably in this new not-yet-maybe-never-post-COVID world. The thing I remember most, though, was how incredibly freeing it felt to be somewhere new again. So much time spent at home, however necessary, had inflicted an unhealthy solitude on much of society, and my first time solidly stepping away from that felt energizing. I’ve always loved to travel and doing so after the darkest days of the pandemic felt like a happy return to form. A reverse homecoming, if you will.

Date (Dublin Core)

June 6, 2021

Creator (Dublin Core)

self

Contributor (Dublin Core)

Andrew C Eslinger

Event Identifier (Dublin Core)

HST643

Partner (Dublin Core)

Arizona State University

Type (Dublin Core)

Text Story

Controlled Vocabulary (Dublin Core)

English Aviation
English Events
English Home & Family Life
English Rural
English Travel
English Biography
English Transportation

Curator's Tags (Omeka Classic)

travel
new family
vacation
school assignment
children
vaccine
wedding

Contributor's Tags (a true folksonomy) (Friend of a Friend)

Arizona State University
HST643
history of tourism

Linked Data (Dublin Core)

Tourism story for the COVID-19 Archive

Date Submitted (Dublin Core)

01/27/2023

Date Modified (Dublin Core)

01/30/2023
02/02/2023

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Covid 19

This item was submitted on January 27, 2023 by Andrew C Eslinger using the form “Share Your Story” on the site “A Journal of the Plague Year”: https://covid-19archive.org/s/archive

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