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Week InReview: October 23, 2020

To globe-trot or not to globe-trot.
 
Illustration: Dave Urban/The Wall Street Journal
 
The call of nature, what Thoreau called the “tonic of wildness,” is hard to ignore during times like these. Millions of adventure travelers are jonesing for a restorative getaway. Weekend cyclists dream of peddling along flat, empty roadways in the bucolic Loire Valley. Recreational climbers itch to scurry along the limestone rock walls in the Greek islands.
 
As countries around the world gradually re-open to tourists, many jetsetters are wrestling with the question: Is it safe and responsible to travel? Or am I being reckless and selfish? 
 
The Wall Street Journal

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