Mélange Travel & Lifestyle Magazine October 2021 | Page 66

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Keeping your cool while traveling during the pandemic

I am sure by now we are all tired of reading and hearing the words corona , COVID and pandemic . We are tired of the ups and downs in numbers of infected and what havoc the Delta variant is causing at the moment . Words that should not be in our daily vocabulary like death toll and fatalities and hospitalized have become a norm . All the while we are trying as hard as we can to go back to a more normal type of living . Some of us are even venturing back into the perceived dangerous practice of
traveling , yours truly included . And that is exactly what I want to address in this article . Again .
I have traveled a total of 5 times since lockdown has been lifted here and am about to book another trip . Some trips were for family emergencies and others were for pleasure or better said , my job as a travel content creator . While some still don ’ t trust traveling during this pandemic , others like myself are carefully getting their feet wet in the waters of travel so
to speak . But know that it is not without proper planning , extensive research , frustration and stress that we pack our bags and embark on whatever journey we have booked for .
Traveling is stressful enough . From packing without forgetting the essentials , to stressing about getting to the airport on time , and in my case always worrying about going through immigration after an event at the Miami airport has left me a tad traumatized . Now add