Or, travel in the time of COVID…

After a childhood filled with summer vacations on the Atlantic in Maine, for over fifteen years of my life, I lived within about half an hour of either the Atlantic Ocean or the Irish Sea. Twice, I had the good fortune to live a couple of blocks from a beach – in Narragansett, Rhode Island, in the late ’90s, and in 2001 in Killiney, Co. Dublin (Ireland). In 2012, I lived two miles from Wollaston Beach, in Quincy, MA. For the past six years or so, I’ve lived in upstate New York – just outside of Albany. And as much as I love the canals and the many lakes and ponds – there is simply no replacement for the ocean, and the smell of the salty ocean/sea breeze.

Last year we got really spoiled: almost every other weekend we were away camping, more…