get lost Travel – Issue 68 2021
English | 100 pages | pdf | 77.9 MB
INITIALLY SHED A TEAR AT THE news that Australia’s borders might stay closed until the middle of 2022.
The announcement was delivered so inconsequentially by our Prime Minister during a press conference, continuing to lock me (and many of our wonderful get lost contributors) out of doing what we love the most. Our job as travel creators is to produce inspirational content from faraway places. The sort of content which changes the way we look at the world and how we think about our place in it.
In the midst of the pandemic wildfire that was almost the undoing of humankind in 2020, I actually think our politicians can be forgiven for their initial swift actions to shut our borders. And while COVID-19 still represents a significant challenge, we know much more about it, and border closures shouldn’t be used as a political football.
Like many other travel businesses, we’ve dried our tears and we’re now looking to our leaders for practical announcements to help get us back to doing the thing we love the most. We want multiple regional quarantine centres, rapid airport testing solutions and firm dates for the opening of Australia’s borders, which should (hopefully) turbocharge our lacklustre vaccination program.
Without these really practical steps, how can we again explore the Tohoku region of Japan eating only vending machine food like Steve Madgwick (p. 88)? Or bravely traverse the mind-boggling high Via Ferrata in Colorado like Roberto Serrini (p. 28)? Finally, how will we ever experience the entrenched culture of utepils in the tiny Norwegian town of Stavanger, which basically means
‘drinking beers in the sun’ (p. 84)?
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