The Bashful Adventurer explores socially distant travel destinations that make viable getaways in 2021. Because although the coronavirus siege drags on, a social distancing vacation may bring us all some peace of mind.
Here’s what holiday 2020 travel data is starting to teach us: we’ve embarked on a travel comeback, but travel is not going to look like it did before.
The Bashful Adventurer ventures into New York City a handful of times in the last half of 2020. Will she really find a ghost town named Manhattan?
The Bashful Adventurer heads to historic Fraunces Tavern in downtown New York City for a bit of history, good food (and whiskey!), and a dose of reassurance during the coronavirus pandemic.
The Bashful Adventurer picks up a romance novel written in the late 1930s hoping to see if and how the author addressed the coming war—and ends up getting a lesson on careers in the travel and tourism industry at a time when adventures in travel were far from mainstream
With travel in place on everyone’s agenda for the next six months, the Bashful Adventurer offers some spectacular armchair traveling options for the rest of the year and into 2021.
With Broadway closed and New York City museums just beginning to open, visitors to Manhattan may be seeking more viable forms of socially distanced entertainment. The Bashful Adventurer takes a Circle Line NYC cruise around Manhattan during the time of the coronavirus. But will she feel safe?
Disinclined to venture too far from home during the COVID-19 pandemic, the Bashful Adventurer picks up a copy of Murder at the Breakers. But will this Gilded Newport Mystery make her want to visit Newport, RI?
The Bashful Adventurer, engaged in some rugged armchair travel during the COVID-19 pandemic, picks up a copy of Courtney Maum’s novel, Costalegre. Will the Bashful Adventurer be transported?
Set back by a summer storm that knocks out her power and internet, the Bashful Adventurer books a mini-vacation in nearby Cold Spring, NY during the COVID-19 pandemic. But will she feel safe there?
What’s it like staying in Miami during the pandemic? The Bashful Adventurer checks in at the Miami Marriott Biscayne Bay and finds out.
With family ties in Lakehurst, NJ, the Bashful Adventurer revisits sites important to her family history. But will an ordinary visitor be drawn to them, too?