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‘You are the only passenger’: How I returned to an empty world
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<blockquote data-quote="cheryl" data-source="post: 2048" data-attributes="member: 1"><p><a href="https://www.nationalgeographic.com/travel/2020/03/returning-from-south-atlantic-expedition-to-a-world-changed-by-coronavirus/" target="_blank"><strong>‘You are the only passenger’: How I returned to an empty world - National Geographic</strong></a></p><p></p><p><strong>Follow a photographer’s journey from a remote island in the South Atlantic to a world paused by pandemic.</strong></p><p></p><p>When the world screeched to a halt, I didn’t notice. I was off the grid near Antarctica, lost in the cacophony of some 200,000 penguins. Elsewhere, highways were emptying, planes parking, and businesses shuttering as COVID-19 gained ground. But the order for social distancing hadn’t yet stretched to this corner of the planet.</p><p> </p><p>At the start of my two-week stint as a guest speaker aboard the <a href="https://www.nationalgeographic.com/expeditions/ships/national-geographic-explorer/" target="_blank">National Geographic <em>Explorer</em></a> en route to South Georgia Island<em>,</em> there were only a handful of coronavirus cases reported in <a href="https://www.nationalgeographic.com/travel/destinations/south-america/argentina/" target="_blank">Argentina</a> or <a href="https://www.nationalgeographic.com/travel/destinations/south-america/chile/" target="_blank">Chile</a>. As the <a href="https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/2020/02/how-coronavirus-could-become-pandemic-and-why-it-matters/" target="_blank">pandemic loomed</a>, it seemed as if our isolated tour was a well-timed escape. Passengers were checked for fever before boarding in Ushuaia, Argentina, and we quickly set course for the Falkland Islands. I wanted to believe, optimistically, that the virus would spike during our journey and we’d return after the worst of it.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="cheryl, post: 2048, member: 1"] [URL='https://www.nationalgeographic.com/travel/2020/03/returning-from-south-atlantic-expedition-to-a-world-changed-by-coronavirus/'][B]‘You are the only passenger’: How I returned to an empty world - National Geographic[/B][/URL] [B]Follow a photographer’s journey from a remote island in the South Atlantic to a world paused by pandemic.[/B] When the world screeched to a halt, I didn’t notice. I was off the grid near Antarctica, lost in the cacophony of some 200,000 penguins. Elsewhere, highways were emptying, planes parking, and businesses shuttering as COVID-19 gained ground. But the order for social distancing hadn’t yet stretched to this corner of the planet. At the start of my two-week stint as a guest speaker aboard the [URL='https://www.nationalgeographic.com/expeditions/ships/national-geographic-explorer/']National Geographic [I]Explorer[/I][/URL] en route to South Georgia Island[I],[/I] there were only a handful of coronavirus cases reported in [URL='https://www.nationalgeographic.com/travel/destinations/south-america/argentina/']Argentina[/URL] or [URL='https://www.nationalgeographic.com/travel/destinations/south-america/chile/']Chile[/URL]. As the [URL='https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/2020/02/how-coronavirus-could-become-pandemic-and-why-it-matters/']pandemic loomed[/URL], it seemed as if our isolated tour was a well-timed escape. Passengers were checked for fever before boarding in Ushuaia, Argentina, and we quickly set course for the Falkland Islands. I wanted to believe, optimistically, that the virus would spike during our journey and we’d return after the worst of it. [/QUOTE]
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