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YOUR WEEKLY ESCAPE: Majestic photos of the tallest trees on Earth

Plus: The Great American Road Trip ... without a drop of gas

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Your Weekly Escape

Extraordinary people, discoveries, and places in a time of turmoil

Take a deep breath. In this crazy time, there are still amazing tales of purpose and dedication, exploration that leads to discovery and understanding, and a natural world that often astounds us. Here are a few of those stories:

PHOTOGRAPH BY EMILY POLAR

See majestic photos of some of the tallest trees on Earth

The hulks have grown through centuries of wars, plagues, and settlement. They give us perspective—and peace—in a troubled time.

LOOK UP

PHOTOGRAPH BY OTTO PLANTEMA, BUITEN BEELD, MINDEN PICTURES

How a small bird helps an endangered giant

The little red oxpecker feeds on ticks on the skin of a rhino—and also warns the giant animal of danger (i.e. approaching humans).

READ ON

PHOTOGRAPH BY ALEXEY YURYNEV

Who's the best bubbe of them all?

Under the disco lights, Brighton Beach babushkas compete to be the year's most fabulous grandmother.

SEE MORE PHOTOS

ILLUSTRATION BY ELEANOR DAVIS

Hope, now? Yes, writer Anne Lamott argues.

Subscriber exclusive: Times of trial are the best times to think about a better future. But how do we navigate through tragedies small and large? Lamott answers: "Through the workings of love, science, community, time, and what I dare to call grace—some elemental shift will occur and we will find we are semi-OK again. And even semi-OK can be a miracle."

READ HER ESSAY

Unendowed with wealth or pity,
Little birds with scarlet legs,
Sitting on their speckled eggs,
Eye each flu-infected city.

Altogether elsewhere, vast
Herds of reindeer move across
Miles and miles of golden moss,
Silently and very fast.

W.H. Auden

The Fall of Rome

PHOTOGRAPHS BY DAVID GUTTENFELDER

An epic road trip without a drop of gas

Subscriber exclusive: Several months ago, they went on the Great American Road Trip, barreling from Santa Monica, California (above), to Washington, D.C. And they learned a lot about a nation’s love of gas-guzzlers—and of a nation’s adaptation to alternative energy—while making the trip in an electric car.

RIDE ALONG

PHOTOGRAPH BY JAMES L. AMOS, NAT GEO IMAGE COLLECTION

Moo to you, too!

This image is one of 31 over the decades selected for this gallery from our Photo of the Day feature. The 1971 image shows vacationing children approaching a cow on Guernsey Island, a part of Great Britain's Channel Islands.

SEE THEM ALL

Need a distraction?

The unexpected poignancy of 'Trolls World Tour' (Slate) ››

These books offer solace in troubled times (Fresh Air) ››

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YOUR WEEKLY ESCAPE: Majestic photos of the tallest trees on Earth

Plus: The Great American Road Trip ... without a drop of gas

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