Over the course of an unforgiving year, the pandemic has drilled home the idea that we should not take anything for granted.
As we wallowed at home watching the coronavirus cancel everything, we realised that travel opportunities can disappear at any moment, and we cannot put off trips for "someday" anymore.
I have seen this sentiment while talking with travel writers, photographers and guides, and travel advisers are seeing it from their clients.
Back in February, Elizabeth Blount McCormick, the president of international travel management company Uniglobe Travel Designers, summed it up best when she introduced the concept of "living lists" to me.