International Travel in a Surging Pandemic

When we bought tickets to Thailand, Omicron hadn’t started to surge yet. It was something I should have anticipated, but didn’t. I bought nonrefundable airfare for a place half a world away, then kept doubling down: research, planning, getting financially and emotionally more invested.

I don’t recommend this. We are living in a period of high global uncertainty. Get travel insurance; it’s…