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Spring Break 2021: This Might Actually Happen Klara Glowczewska © Courtesy Jumby Bay Antigua Cautiously optimistic spring break travel plans to get you to the Caribbean. Does spring break by the sea—swimming, sand, sundowners—seem to you more a right than a privilege? Aghast at the prospect of being denied it this year? No need for guilt: The desire to get to water—be it ocean, lake, or pool—is in your genes, baby, an urge born of a primordial survival instinct. “Al...

Courtesy Jumby Bay Antigua Does spring break by the sea—swimming, sand, sundowners—seem to you more a right than a privilege? Aghast at the prospect of being denied it this year? No need for guilt: The desire to get to water—be it ocean, lake, or pool—is in your genes, baby, an urge born of a primordial survival instinct. “All our senses respond positively to water,” says marine biologist Wallace J. Nichols, author of Blue Mind, because it’s an evolutionary trigger “telling yo...