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The bookshelf of albums, and now this digital version, are catalogued by place. Prior to the pandemic, at least a fortnight of travel has been undertaken each year over the last half century. Recently, unfortunately, travel has lost its allure. Air travel is dehumanizing and a cause of global warming. Mass marketing of even the most remote places has drained the joy of discovery (traffic jams at the top of Everest!). Social media and rising prosperity (a boon, of course) have homogenized culture. Travel now seems an industrial process with the traveler as the raw material being rendered. Residents of tourist destinations more often seem tired, resentful or hostile over the world's intrusion. As others have noted, tourism kills the culture and environments we travel to find.

On each trip places are stumbled upon, perhaps on the verge of disappearing or not yet commodified into tourist attractions. Those discoveries still make the effort worthwhile.


Armenia
Australia
Austria
Bali
Belgium
Cambodia
Czech Republic
China
Denmark
Egypt
England
Estonia
Europe
Finland
France
Germany
Greece
Guatemala
Holland
Hong Kong
Hungary
India
Italy
Japan
Jordan
Korea
Latvia
Lebanon
Malaysia
Mexico
Morocco
New Zealand
Peru
Portugal
Singapore
Spain
Sweden
Syria
Thailand
Tunisia
Turkey
USA