Travel is back, but is pandemic tourism fun? We sent a Star reporter to find out

PUNTA CANA, DOMINICAN REPUBLIC-You can almost forget about the ongoing collective nightmare of the pandemic when you're sipping a mojito in the pink twilight on the edge of the undulating Atlantic, and a long arc of surf foams over the distant reef, and a soft breeze rustles the palm fronds and laps against your sun-tender skin.