Episode 740: Solo Travel
Spilled Milk
Molly Wizenberg and Matthew Amster-Burton
4.6 • 1.4K Ratings
🗓️ 5 March 2026
⏱️ 47 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | I'm Molly and I'm Matthew and this is spilled milk the show where we cook something delicious |
| 0:08.7 | eat it all and you can't have any and today we're talking about solo travel that's right |
| 0:14.9 | and this episode was suggested by producer Abby who is actually sitting in the studio with us |
| 0:21.4 | producer abby are you with us i'm here i'm here okay right welcome producer abbey thank |
| 0:25.8 | you so much i'm happy to be here um let's start with our beloved segment |
| 0:29.1 | boy is this gonna is this bit going to continue for the whole episode |
| 0:33.3 | abby is our abby is um using her special NPR voice. |
| 0:56.4 | We are so pleased to be joined by Mara Liason. We had an actual NPR host on our show. You remember that? That was amazing. I do. Michelle Norris. I know. That was incredible. So let's start with our beloved segment, memory lane. Okay. Molly, do you have any solo travel memory lane? Hold on. Like, do we need to define the concept? |
| 0:56.4 | I'm not sure if we do. |
| 0:59.9 | Okay, but yeah, what is solo travel to us? |
| 1:02.6 | So I guess I went from no to yes. Okay. |
| 1:03.1 | So I'm thinking any trip that is not like strictly work, work travel is a whole other thing. |
| 1:10.9 | I feel like work travel could be solo travel. So that... |
| 1:14.6 | Well, as you're about to hear from me, host Molly, my solo travel tends to be connected to work, but I think of it as being a separate part. |
| 1:23.8 | Okay. |
| 1:24.2 | Yeah, because work is like you have to go and there's responsibilities that you have to, |
| 1:28.4 | you know, check off your checklist. But solo travel is like, this is your choice that you want to go |
| 1:33.1 | and you want to go alone. Yeah. Well, I think it's an offshoot of a business. Can I like try out an |
| 1:38.4 | idea that I'm like making up like as we get started here? I think what's interesting about solo |
| 1:43.4 | travel is that it is an |
| 1:45.5 | opportunity to be someone a little different than you usually are because you're in a totally |
| 1:51.8 | different context. And you know, partly. You watch it. Yeah, partly that's geographical, but it's |
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