Hi, everyone. You're listening to Women Who Travel, a podcast from Connie Nass Traveler. I'm Meredith

Carrie, and with me, as always, is my co-host, Lala Erica Glue. Hello. In today's special

episode, we're chatting all things slow travel, what it means, how we're bringing a slow travel

mindset on the road with us

this year, and how we're implementing it back home too. Joining us to lay it all out are Rachel

Swarchman, a New York-based writer, and the host of Slow Stories, a podcast all about slowing down

in a digital world, and Melissa Donahue, owner and executive chef at Sweet Melissa's in Sanibel,

Florida.

Thank you both for joining us.

Thank you for having us.

Thank you.

Slow travel, I feel like, is a term that is getting bandied around a lot, especially as we emerge out of the pandemic.

But it's a bit of a, it can be a little bit of a lofty term.

How do you both define slow travel and how do you think it's a bit of a, it can be a little bit of a lofty term. How do you both define slow travel?

And how do you think it's different from your average kind of fly-and-flop beach vacation?

Slow travel to me is very much in conversation with movements like slow food, slow fashion.

I think it's really rooted in a sense of awareness. And to me,

it really happens even before you set foot on a plane or jump in the car. It's understanding the

motivation behind why you're traveling and where you're going. And I think in the vein of

slowness and time, it's also about timing. So why is this the right time for you

to be in this place? And just having that sense of understanding of the why, the what, the when.

And I've been thinking about this too, because in a time where we're so conditioned to crave

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