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Got Shot, Will Travel

By Rebecca Martinez,

Leoneda Inge

Published March 12, 2021 at 7:43 PM EST

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Host Leoneda Inge reflects on where she was as COVID-19 started spreading in the U.S. and talks to experts about making travel plans in a pandemic.

As access to the COVID vaccine grows, so does our wanderlust. Travel curator Dawn Booker of Pack Light Global Itineraries tells host Leoneda Inge how she plans to resume globe-trotting this year. Patty David of AARP says baby boomers have been saving their travel funds, but they’re split over whether this year will be the time to use them.

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Rebecca Martinez

Rebecca Martinez produces podcasts at WUNC. She’s been at the station since 2013, when she produced Morning Edition and reported for newscasts and radio features. Rebecca also serves on WUNC’s Inclusion, Diversity, Equity and Accountability (IDEA) Committee.

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Leoneda Inge

Leoneda Inge is the co-host of WUNC's "Due South." Leoneda has been a radio journalist for more than 30 years, spending most of her career at WUNC as the Race and Southern Culture reporter. Leoneda’s work includes stories of race, slavery, memory and monuments. She has won "Gracie" awards, an Alfred I. duPont Award and several awards from the Radio, Television, Digital News Association (RTDNA). In 2017, Leoneda was named "Journalist of Distinction" by the National Association of Black Journalists.

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