In which armchair travel tops the charts in 2020. To that end I’ll be posting images from my archives in a series called: Travel in the Time of Coronavirus. Love Letters to the Earth. It seems appropriate at this juncture to start with Italy.

Dear Italy,

We are all thinking of and rooting for you. There is a reason why you have always topped the list of places to visit among the travelers of the world. Many reasons in fact. I don’t need to tell you what they are. You know what you have.