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Strangers In A Strange Land: Facing COVID-19 On The Road
How two professional travelers dealt with coronavirus a long way from home
As professional nomads, Amelia Rayno and Monet Izabeth are used to dealing with strange situations on the road.
Amelia once went for a walk on what she thought was a beach in Belize, only to sink waist-deep into congealed sewage. Monet climbed Mount Kenya to search for the crashed World War II bomber containing her great-uncle’s body.
Because of experiences like those, they were better equipped than most travelers when the COVID-19 pandemic reached their current places of residence.
“This isn’t an ordinary life, but as a freelancer who travels, I’m 100 percent prepared for this,” Monet said from Greenland, her home for more than seven weeks. “I’m still treating this as a work trip.”
Those skills have allowed them to deal with the sheer chaos unfolding around them.
At the beginning of March, Amelia was in El Salvador, where she had spent much of the last 18 months filming a documentary about the Salvadoran Civil War. Monet was…
