Includes bibliographical references (pages [263]-265).

Inside the nightmare voyage of the Diamond Princess / Doug Bock Clark, from GQ -- Mississippi: a poem, in days / Kiese Makeba Laymon, from Vanity Fair -- The warmth of a lost world / Leslie Jamison, from The New York Times Magazine -- To the swimmer in the Borneo rainforest / Meghan Gunn, from Off Assignment -- I decided to leave / Meghan Daum, from GEN -- The New York you once knew is gone. The one you loved remains / Glynnis MacNicol, from GEN -- Good bread / Bill Buford, from the New Yorker -- Food, it turns out, has little to do with why I love to travel / Noah Galuten, from Eater -- The people of Las Vegas / Amanda Fortini, from The Believer -- In the City of Saints / Sarah Khan, from Travel + Leisure -- Reindeer at the end of the world / Bathsheba Demuth, from Emergence Magazine -- Senegal's beating heart / Jim Benning, from Westways -- Five oceans, five deeps / Ben Taub, from The New Yorker -- Water or sky? / Meg Bernhard, from Hazlitt -- California's weed country is lit / Jackie Bryant, from Cannabitch -- Youtopia / Carrie Battan, from Outside -- Can travel become an addiction? / Natalie Stoclet, from Playboy -- On the complicated questions around writing about travel / Intan Paramaditha, from Literary Hub -- Out there, nobody can hear you scream / Latria Graham, fromOutside -- The losing coast / Elizabeth Miller, from The Statesider -- To the doctor of Bujumbura's quarantine hotel / Jina Moore, from Off Assignment -- A change in perspective / Sarah Moss, from Travel + Leisure -- Thousand fields of grain / Ligaya Mishan, from T: The New York Times Style Magazine -- A fear-filled lockdown / Paul Theroux, from The New York Times -- Wanderlust / Jon Lee Anderson, from The New Yorker.