I don’t generally fly at all now, only attend conferences that I can get to by bus/train etc., but one of my children moved to Myanmar and I visited her early this year (2020 pre-pandemic). I did fly there but came back mainly by bus, train or boat, with two fairly short flights (Yangon – Chiang Mai and Singapore – Darwin). It was a great experience, I wrote it up here.

Footnote — Melbourne, especially my suburb, has been in lockdown most of the time since March, and other states won’t let Victorians enter because we have much higher Covid-19 rates here. All my teaching is online or by zoom, and I can’t travel more than 5 km from my home. So as I said in the blog, that big trip I did in February seems like a dream now. But the Victorian government has apparently given the ‘Overland,’ the Melbourne-Adelaide train, another respite, so it will still be going when we are allowed to travel again, I hope.