Happy Monday, everybody. It's Meredith Carey co-host of Women Who Travel. I unfortunately am the only

person in the office right now. My co-host, Lale, is gallivanting about Japan hiking with adventure

women. You heard from their owner a couple weeks ago, Judy Weinland. So this week, we're actually

replaying an episode that ran last week on Travelog, our other podcast here at Connie Nass Traveler,

featuring Jessica Nabongo, who you've heard from on this podcast before, and one of my other

co-workers and friends, Catherine LaGrave. We hope you enjoy.

Hey, everyone, it's Meredith Carey, editor and podcast producer here at Traveler.

Brad Rickman is in Scotland this week with his family.

You can keep up with him at Bradrick on Instagram, which means I'm taking over with editor Catherine LaGrave.

Hello.

This week we're talking to one person and one person only, and that is Jessica

Nabongo, now a traveler podcast, regular over on women who travel. She's the founder of the blog

The Catch Me If You Can and boutique travel firm Jet Black. And last year alone, she visited 53 countries

on more than 130 flights. This year, she spent more than six days, as of the last Instagram that I saw, in the air

on 38 flights.

It's April.

Can you tell people what the hell you're doing?

Oh, my gosh.

Hi, everybody.

I am on a mission to become the first black woman in the world to travel to all of the UN member

countries. Why? What are you doing to yourself? What is, what is, what was kind of the

impetus for this? Why are you going on this crazy adventure? So I'm a geography nerd.

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