The Joy of All-Women Trips

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4.4 • 636 Ratings

🗓️ 5 February 2019

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Let's get something straight, right off the bat: we're biased when it comes to organized group trips exclusively for self-identifying women. We love them so much, that as of today we have not one, not two, but ten Women Who Travel trips heading to Colombia this year, thanks to a partnership with El Camino Travel. But we didn't always feel so gung-ho about traveling the world with a group of strangers or about giving up control over the itinerary. In fact, just like with almost everything in travel, it was the mental hurdle—the thought that we might not like group trips—that kept us from doing it. But, we all got over it. (Strip naked in front of a group of gals at a Japanese onsen and you'll get over those reservations really fast.) To commiserate and compare stories, we brought community editor and trip lead Megan Spurrell and El Camino's founder Katalina Mayorga on to talk about the pros, cons, and what it took to change our minds.

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0:00.0	Hey everyone and welcome to Women Who Travel a podcast from Connie Nass Traveler.
0:08.4	My name is Meredith Carey and with me as always is my co-host, Lolle Eric Koglu.
0:12.9	Hello.
0:13.9	And today we are joined by two of our women who travel group slash just everything champions,
0:20.7	our community editor, Megan Sparell.
0:22.5	Hi.
0:23.2	And we're joined over Skype by Catalina Majorga, the founder of El Camino Travel, a company
0:28.5	that Connie Nass Traveler has partnered with to launch our very own women who travel trips
0:33.0	for self-identifying women.
0:35.6	Our first one is going to Columbia very soon, and it launches on February 9th, which is very,
0:40.3	very exciting.
0:41.7	But we wanted to talk just in our circles.
0:44.6	We've been talking so much about the benefits of group trips and organized group trips,
0:49.2	specifically all-women group trips.
0:51.5	And so in this episode, we just wanted to kind of kick off by asking Megan,
0:57.1	and I'll ask you Lale too, and because I know you've been on one before, and Catalina, just generally,
1:02.9	what are the pros that you see to going on a organized group trip, all female or otherwise?
1:12.2	Megan, do you want to start? Well, yeah,
1:17.4	before we decided to do this partnership, I went on an El Camino trip in September, which was my first group travel experience, like multi-day trip to another country, group travel experience. And
1:23.4	I was nervous. I feel like I talked about it before, too. I just, I feel like I'm social, but also sometimes can be very antisocial.
1:32.3	I need a loan time.
1:33.6	I don't know.
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