The 5 Stages of Travel Grief

BY:  Ashlea Halpern, AFAR

The denial started when we heard about Wuhan. As we process constant change during the COVID-19 global pandemic, it feels a whole lot like the five stages of grief. Can we reach acceptance soon?

As a freelance travel writer and AFAR’s editor-at-large, I spend about half of my year on the road. In 2019, work assignments took me to Belize, Serbia, Ireland, France, Uzbekistan, and Switzerland, plus seven countries in Africa and nearly a dozen U.S. states. The first half of 2020 was even more stacked, with back-to-back trips planned in Las Vegas, the Galápagos, Qatar, Guyana, Qatar (again), Peru, and Alaska. 

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