Virtual travel offers a way to learn about the world around us when we can’t leave home.
Some of our articles focus on virtual travel; we started doing this during CoVid, but we found it useful any time we can’t leave home.
While virtual travel can not replace the experience of walking through the ancient structures, surrounded by the jungle, listening to thousands of birds, watching iguanas sunbathe on the pyramids, it can transport me back to the land of the Maya.
Years ago, I stood in the British Museum and walked through its exhibits. I explored its rooms with my family for a full day, and I still felt that I only scratched the surface, so I have plans to return. Now is definitely not a good time for that return visit. But that doesn’t mean
I don’t always need to get on a plane or drive to travel the world. I can easily travel virtually through the books I read. And it is such an enjoyable way to travel! Books can transport me to faraway lands, past or present, real or imaginary. I can’t think of a better way to
Sometimes we can’t leave home, no matter how much we love to travel. When we need to stay home for long stretches of time, books come to the rescue! They can transport us to places we can only dream about, to real or imaginary, present-day or ancient lands, they help us revisit places we know well or new
It’s Earth Day today. April 22nd, 2020. The 50th Earth Day celebrated our planet. But today we are celebrating virtually. Which in a way, is better for the planet. By staying home, not driving or flying as much, we help clean the air. Personally, I can smell and see it in my own backyard. Living in
During National Park Week in 2020 we couldn’t visit any of them. Most were closed, and the few that weren’t, were be too far for us to drive to. So, instead of a road trip or a flight to some of the National Parks, we visited them virtually. We reminisced about old trips in many of
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Sitting at home, with nowhere to go during the early days of the CoVid-19 epidemic lockdowns, we started virtually visiting art museums from around the world. And since the idea started during our discussions about the Met, we chose it for our first virtual tour. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, known as the Met
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In these times of social distancing, when traveling is not advised, non-essential businesses closed and schools moved online, art museums around the world opened their virtual doors to visitors. They teamed up with Google Arts and Culture to bring their galleries and exhibits online. This comes in especially handy for our school-aged kids. When they
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