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Published May 17, 2020 12:00AM

If you’re a certain kind of traveler, you enjoy meeting like-minded people and you’re happy to leave the details of planning to someone else. Conveyances such as buses or vessels, an easy way to see a city or the countryside, don’t give you pause — or they didn’t until recently.

But in the age of coronavirus, do you want to travel as a group, whizzing down the highways and byways together on a bus or bobbing on a small ship, eating together as a group?

Is our new need for social distancing the nail in the coffin of escorted trips?

As the Magic 8-Ball says, “Signs point to no.” So does James Moses, president and chief executive of Road Scholar, which emphasizes education and learning on its trips.

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