Hi everyone and welcome to Women Who Travel, a podcast from Konday Nass Traveler.

I'm Lale Aricoblu and with me, as always, is my co-host Meredith Carey.

Hello!

This week we're answering the questions you've been asking on Instagram and in our Facebook group.

To help us dole out advice a traveler's transportation editor, Jessica

Puckett. Hi. And articles director, Stephanie Wu. Hey guys. Before we get into the questions that our

listeners asked, I'd love to know when you both are planning your first big trips back out there.

I feel like I've been just anxiously awaiting this moment

where I can plan my next big trip for so long now. And I'm still very cautiously optimistic.

But for me, you know, I'm looking toward late summer, maybe late July, early August for, I would call it like a shorter

trip. So maybe Caribbean, maybe Mexico. And then I'm really going like whole hog on next Christmas

and thinking about that right now because I think it's our best bet for a truly larger family gathering.

Jess, how about you?

Yeah, I'm kind of thinking the same thing stuff.

Actually, my family is planning a sort of reunion in the Caribbean, hopefully for July.

We have targeted St. Lucia.

My dad has planned this all with like, cancel for any reason insurance, all of this stuff. So like very, very optimistically hoping this happens. But I have noticed it like makes such a difference just having like whether this happens or not, just having something to look forward to and maybe look up what there is to do in St. Lucia or restaurants or things like that. And it just

really has improved my mood. I mean, I feel like, Steph, you have the most, like, post-travel

glow of any of us because you have taken a big trip recently. How are you feeling now almost a month

after what was a month log trip to Taiwan to see your family? I feel like it just having that

reset and being away and then coming back was like a total game changer for my mood and also

helps is helping me get through the winter and

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