Women Who Travel Podcast: Your Love and Travel Stories

12.02.2024 - 19:47 / cntraveler.com

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Love doesn’t sleep just because you’re traveling. This episode, in honor of Valentine’s Day, we’re dedicating an episode to our listeners’ stories, from tales of a windswept singles resort, to a fling in a Toronto hotel, to a surprising encounter in China. Whether you love or hate this holiday, or love to hate it, we promise this episode will be a fun one.

Lale Arikoglu: Hi, I'm Lale Arikoglu. And this is an episode of Women Who Travel. And we're marking Valentine's Day with a return of our listener dispatches. It's fun, it's candid, it's certainly not hallmark, and I think you'll enjoy it.

Danny Alpert: I was hoping that when he found out that I was traveling, that it would hurt him.

Speaker 3: So we're drinking champagne on the streets with strangers, and then running to more parties and more fireworks.

Speaker 4: Fortunately, in my tornado of packing, I had one sexy bra and lingerie set.

Melissa Gould: We'd joke that his love language is quiet. Which is not an actual love language.

Speaker 6: I went so far as to put on a Dayglow bikini. I went to the beach trying to get some attention.

Ellen Kushner: I thought that she had never traveled because she lived with this woman who hated travel.

Speaker 8: How am I gonna get out of this? How am I gonna send him home and have my best friend come on the rest of the trip with me instead?

Lisa Niver: I was talking to my coworker about this incredibly hot Adonis. And she said to me, "Does stuff like this happened to you all the time?"

Speaker 10: It was a Pilates retreat that I went to because my ex would not agree to go to a Pilates retreat.

Speaker 11: I wanted to know the difference between being in the Alfama District versus Bairro Alto. My boyfriend couldn't care less.

LA: Before we ask those listeners to dive deeper into their stories, I want to play a clip from Jessica Nabongo. Based in Detroit and of Ugandan parentage, she's a regular here, the first black woman to visit every country in the world and document her experiences. She's next week's guest. And at the end of the conversation for that episode, I had to find out if she'd had an adventure she could share today.

Jessica Nabongo: Okay, here's a crazy story. I won't give too many details but, um, so [laughing] so okay, when I went to China, uh, when you go to China on a US passport, you get like a five-day visa for that region. You can't fly outside of the region, but like say if you go to Beijing, you can stay for five days. Or if you go to Shanghai or whatever, right? So I flew in to China, and then I went to North Korea. And then I came back to China. So when I came back, I