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 Connie Nass Traveler. I'm Meredith

Carrie, and with me, as always, is my co-host, Lolly Eric Koglu. 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. 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

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