The best American travel writing 2020

Rick Steves wants to set you free / Sam Anderson

On the road with Thomas Merton / Fred Bahnson

If you are permanently lost / Molly McCully Brown

Life, death, and the border patrol / Jackie Bryant Smith

Volunteer's dilemma / Ken Budd

My own private Iceland / Kyle Chayka

Revisiting my grandfather's garden / Mojgan Ghazirad

To the follower of Cheikh Bamba whom I met in Dakar / Emmanuel Iduma

How to mourn a glacier / Lacy M. Johnson

Such perfection / Chloé Cooper Jones

What I learned in avalanche school / Heidi Julavits

Glow / James Lasdun

To hold oneself together / Yiyun Li

The last of the great American hobos / Jeff MacGregor

The trillion-dollar nowhere / Ben Mauk

My father's land / Courtney Desiree Morris

At the border, no one can know your name / Alejandra Oliva

The shape of water / Stephanie Pearson

Who lives in Palermo is Palermo / Ashley Powers

Climate Signs / Emily Raboteau

Walking with migrants / Paul Salopek

Lost in Summerland / Barrett Swanson

Vacation memories marred by the indelible stain of racism / Shanna B. Tiayon.