Listener Discussion is advised.

It's summer, and you're sitting at your kitchen table, planning your next vacation.

You're trying to think through everything.

What time you'll arrive, how you'll get to the hotel.

Even on the most relaxed and chill vacations, a lot of details need to be meticulously planned

out.

But there's so much trip planning that's outside of your control.

There's so many unknown unknowns, and when you're far away from home, if you find yourself

in the unknown, there's not always someone around to help.

I've always had a fear of disappearing while on vacation, ever since I was little.

The chances of it happening are low, but I remember being in high school and hearing

stories of Natalie Holloway or Brittany Drexel.

Those who were my age when they embarked on a trip of a lifetime and never made it back.

It seems like you can do everything right.

You can book stays in the safest parts of town, you can study the neighborhoods, and the

political climate of the country you're traveling to to stay out of harm's way.

You can be on a class trip with shaperones, like Natalie was, and you can still be in the

wrong place at the wrong time.

You still can't account for the unknown unknowns.

Today's episode is exactly that.

It's about a seasoned traveler taking a vacation that should have been a relaxing recharge.

But instead, it turned into one of the most shocking, wrong place at the wrong time cases

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