How to Ease Travel Anxiety in an Era of Terror: Travel More<br />By DAVID SHAFTELJUNE 8, 2017<br />Every time my anxiety about travel seems to have subsided, new horrific<br />and deadly terrorist attacks in Britain, like the one at London Bridge on Saturday, close to where my wife and I once lived, and the bombing just days before at the Manchester Arena, have brought my worries back to the fore, especially since we’re off to London in a couple of weeks.<br />I knew the attacks in no way made my own situation more perilous — indeed, behavior economists say<br />that a heightened sense of collective fear actually makes us more vigilant and therefore safer — but it was surprisingly saddening to be so far from home when such a terrible scene was unfolding in a completely different part of the world.<br />Morocco, too, was perilous, it turned out, but not in the way I thought it might be in the depths of my anxiety: One of our hotel rooms was burglarized by a chambermaid; I tore a tendon in my calf playing tennis; my wife<br />and daughter held an allegedly defanged cobra in Jemaa el Fna, the main market square in Marrakesh; and I acquired a Category 5 hangover from Churchill’s signature cocktail, which it turns out is geared more toward functioning alcoholics than holidaymakers.<br />I was on a tiny regional jet from Knoxville, Tenn., to New York last summer — a harrowing experience at the best of times — when our flight was diverted to Erie, Pa.,<br />because of, as far as I could tell, a rumor of rain at La Guardia Airport.<br />" he said, "they come back correspondingly more relaxed about traveling again in the future." It’s true: The more I travel in today’s security climate, and refuse to alter my behavior, the better I feel about travel — and the sillier I feel afterward for worrying.<br />that When people have traveled to destinations where they have initially been nervous of going to and they haven’t encountered anything adverse,
