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John Steinbeck's classic travelogue showcases man's best road-trip friend

Fourteen years ago, I decided to drive across the United States. This came after a childhood of cross-country rides in the back seat of my parents' car, visiting my grandparents in Southern California. But in 2007, when I was a full-fledged grown-up, my grandmother worried about this trip well before my departure. My mother wanted to know where I would sleep. My sister said she couldn't imagine driving all those miles by myself.

Suga asks Osaka, Sapporo residents to avoid traveling

Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga has called on people in Osaka and Sapporo to refrain from travel outside the cities, where novel coronavirus cases are rising. Trips to the two cities had already been excluded from the Go To Travel campaign in a revision of the government's tourism promotion program.

Travel companies that are thriving amid the pandemic

In January, the experiential travel platform Peek celebrated $1 billion in bookings since its founding in 2012. Then the novel coronavirus hit. Ruzwana Bashir, founder of the San Francisco-based start-up, watched business vanish overnight. "By April, we were at zero," she says. "With America in lockdown, people couldn't experience anything. Things looked dire."

John Steinbeck's classic travelogue showcases man's best road-trip friend

Air travel was down significantly this year. Climate activists hope it stays this way.

Suga asks Osaka, Sapporo residents to avoid traveling

Travel companies that are thriving amid the pandemic

Snow-capped mountains as seen from Chitwan