Hi, everyone. In this wild time, Lale and I have found ourselves going back to the episode we recorded with Eat, Pray, Love author, Elizabeth Gilbert, last year.

Our conversation was filled with a little grief, a lot of joy, and plenty of travel wisdom, all of which we need right now to tide us over until we can travel freely again.

We'll be back next week with a brand new episode answering all sorts of questions

about traveling right now, like what you should do about your summer and fall plans, what we can

expect from air travel when this is all over, and whether or not you should be cashing in on those

amazing flight deals available right now. If you have a question of your own, please direct message

me or Lale on Instagram. I'm at Oh Hey There Mayor and she's at Lolley

Hannah so we can address yours. In the meantime, we hope you enjoy our chat with Elizabeth.

Hi, everyone and welcome to Women Who Travel, a podcast from Kondaynast Traveler. I'm Meredith

Carrie, and with me as always is my co-host, Lale Lali Aaricoglu. Hi. This week, we are absolutely thrilled to be joined by a woman who really needs no introduction, author and traveler extraordinaire, Elizabeth Gilbert. Hi. Oh my God, were you really going to do no introduction? Because usually people say that, and then they do an introduction anyway, but you actually

upheld that. That's amazing. I mean, I feel like people who are listening to this podcast who have read

Eat, Pray, Love, or Big Magic, or any of the multitude of other books that you've written,

probably guessed that you were the Liz Gilbert of Elizabeth Gilbert. I love it. Yeah, I just want to

applaud you because I've heard that a million times, not for me, but just in many times sitting in an audience where they've said, this person needs no introduction and then follows a five-minute introduction. So, great, let's just go. Let's do this. Well, thanks for calling in, first of all. Yeah. But I would love to talk to you about one of those books, kind of, sort of.

I feel like Eat, Pray, Love was a very specific era of your life, and it's been time now since it came out and since you took the trip that inspired it.

So I'm curious how your relationship with travel has changed over the years since that very iconic moment that most people know of your travel.

Well, I think my relationship to

travel has always been pretty much the same, which is just a kind of ferocious eagerness and a

pit of my stomach driven desire to be in all the places at the same time. So that really hasn't changed. One thing that I will say

that I thought was interesting is that the 10-year anniversary of Eat, Pray, Love was very recently,

and I was asked to write a forward for it for a new edition. And I hadn't read the book since I had

written the last page of it. And to sit down 10 years later and read it was really

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