If You’re Posting Travel Pics Already, Know This: Everyone Hates You

Keep your travelgrams to yourself

Julio Vincent Gambuto
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2 min readApr 13, 2021

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Nope! It’s just too soon. Pardon the overt social shame, but if you’re posting happy, bubbly, #blessed travel photos to Facebook, Insta and the rest of social, you can be sure that everyone scrolling on the other end is either rolling their eyes or searching for the “unfollow” button. Or “snooze.” Or “Jesus Christ, go away.” We get it. You just want to go back to normal. We all do. But, in the name of common purpose — and pure human decency — please stop. No one (zero people, total) wants to see you in a t-shirt and Ray-Bans rejoicing with unmasked friends in scenic places. Spare us the open-top Jeep. We hate you.

The whole world wants to open up and get “back” to life. As of today, more than 120 million Americans have received at least one dose of the vaccine. Arms everywhere are sore. That’s great news, and we’re well on our way to a COVID-controlled summer. Joy surely cometh. In other parts of the country, though, and around the globe, numbers are still a bit grim. In our wallets, the hit is hard and will take years — not months — to recover. And in our streets, a new killing in Minneapolis is stoking tensions, yet again. If we learned anything last year, it is that a lot of people are in a lot of pain in this country. You might even maybe quite…

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Julio Vincent Gambuto
Julio Vincent Gambuto

Written by Julio Vincent Gambuto

Author + Moviemaker. Happy November. Back to socials 2x/week. Connect at juliovincent.com.