SAM ANDERSON: Rick Steves Wants to Set You Free FRED BAHNSON: On the Road with Thomas Merton MOLLY McCULLY BROWN: If You Are Permanently Lost JACKIE BYRANT: Life, Death, and the Border Patrol KEN BUDD: The Volunteer's Dilemma KYLE CHAYKA: My Own Private Iceland MOJGAN GHAZIRAD: Revisiting My Grandfather's Garden EMMANUEL IDUMA: To the Follower of Cheikh Bamba Whom I Met in Dakar LACY M. JOHNSON: How to Mourn a Glacier CHLOĆ COOPER JONES: Such Perfection HEIDI JULAVITS: What I Learned in Avalanche School JAMES LASDUN: Glow YIYUN LI: To Hold Oneself Together JEFF MacGREGOR: The Last of the Great American Hobos BEN MAUK: The Trillion-Dollar Nowhere COURTNEY DESIREE MORRIS: My Father's Land ALEJANDRA OLIVA: At the Border, No One Can Know Your Name STEPHANIE PEARSON: The Shape of Water ASHLEY POWERS: Who Lives in Palermo Is Palermo EMILY RABOTEAU: Climate Signs PAUL SALOPEK: Walking with Migrants BARRETT SWANSON: Lost in Summerland SHANNA B. TIAYON: Vacation Memories Marred by the Indelible Stain of Racism.
The Best American Travel Writing 2020