Travel has always been perceived as a break from our day-to-day reality.

Tracee Ellis Ross at Sensei Porcupine Creek Resort & Spa

Pair of photos from Montolieu, one showing a street with bookshops, and one showing a detail of shutters painted to look like bookshelves

A sunlit pathway through trees covered with Spanish moss

Aerial view of an irregularly shaped swimming pool at a hotel resort

Quasar Expeditions Grace yacht, in the Galapagos

A view of the beach on Bonaire island in the Caribbean sea

Sound bath song bowls at Riverbank Los Angeles

Travel + Leisure November Issue Cover with Tracee Ellis Ross

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