Summer Travel Is All About Figuring Out Your Comfort Zone

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🗓️ 17 June 2020

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Summary

Since this season is sure to be unlike any other high season, thanks to the ongoing coronavirus pandemic, we've been asking a lot of questions about summer travel here at Traveler—from how much we'll be traveling, to how we'll be getting around, to where we'll stay. And this week, we're tackling all of those questions (and more) in one episode with the help of some top notch experts: associate editor Megan Spurrell and New York Times travel reporter Tariro Mzezewa. We hope our conversation gives you the information you need to travel to the beach or a remote Airbnb responsibly—or the blessing to stay home and plan for your out-of-this-world trip for next year.

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0:00.0	Hi, everyone. You're listening to Women Who Travel, a podcast from Kondinast Traveler. I'm Meredith
0:08.8	Kerry, and with me, as always, is my co-host, Sala Eric Koglu. Hello. Summer is officially
0:14.7	here. The days are longer, sunnier and hotter. But this summer is way different. Even as states reopened, nothing has
0:22.5	really changed when it comes to how America is handling the pandemic. And we know more about the
0:27.2	risk of COVID-19, but it's still out there. So this episode, we're asking, how does summer
0:32.9	travel even look this year? Joining us to help answer our Megan Sparell Associate Editor at Traveler.
0:38.3	Hello.
0:39.4	And New York Times travel reporter Terira Mesizua. Hi. Thank you guys so much for joining us.
0:45.0	Thank you for having us. I think the first question we really want to dive into is what are the
0:50.5	trends that everyone is seeing as travelers do start to move around the move around the US and or even just start to contemplate what their own travels might look like over the coming months?
1:01.8	Well, I feel like this maybe is the very obvious thing, but every single person is trying to get their hands either on a rental car or figure out all the different places they can go with their car whether that's camping maybe for the first time or a road trip or driving movie theaters
1:17.6	are blowing up all over the country but I feel like it is all about the cars this summer which
1:23.0	usually like summer is time for road trips but it is out of control this year.
1:29.6	And I don't have a car, so I'm very aware of that.
1:33.2	Well, I think you saying that you don't have a car is a really important point,
1:36.7	because when we talk about everyone is going to be going on road trips,
1:41.8	that runs under the assumption that everyone has access to a car or feels like road trip is an accessible means of travel to them. Terro, tell me
1:46.8	a little bit more about, you know, what you're seeing over at the Times and you're reporting
1:51.2	about who is hitting the road so far and is it in urban places? Is it in rural places? Like,
1:57.4	who is actually like booking these rental cars? Okay okay so i saw one stat and it keeps popping up
2:03.4	in my email it's an RV company that keeps saying you know our rentals are up 650% like everyone's
2:10.5	obsessed with getting an RV right now and lots of conversation about doing a road trip and it doesn't
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