Hi and welcome to Women Who Travel, a podcast from Kani Nas Traveler that digs deep into the realities of traveling as a woman today and celebrates why we're never staying home.

I'm Meredith Carey and this is my co-host, Lala Air Coglou.

Hello.

For our fifth episode, we're joined by Traveler contributor Sarah Khan, Huffington Post

social media editor Roweda Abdulaziz, and returning guest and founder and CEO of the boutique

travel firm Jet Black, Jessica Abongo, who's joining us from Lesotho, I think, if I remember

correctly. Yes, I'm in Lusoto. Oh my gosh. The first question I have for everyone is just kind of if you could run

through your earliest travel experiences, like the first time you can remember traveling and having

that be a big deal for you. Well, I guess I can start. Yeah, so with me, I actually kind of grew up

traveling. I was born in Canada and then I moved to Saudi Arabia when I was about a year old and I have been traveling ever since. I mean, my dad worked for the airlines there. So we literally would just go somewhere every month for long weekends or we'd travel to India where my family is originally from for the summers or visit family in the state. So I feel like it's just kind of always been there.

And I don't really have this first travel memory

that sort of resonates with me.

But I think some of my earliest experiences

were going to Europe when I was maybe seven or eight.

And those trips really stand out.

And yeah, I think it's just kind of always been a part of my life.

And how about you, Jessica? Yeah, I've been traveling just kind of always been a part of my life. And how about you, Jessica?

Yeah, I've been traveling most of my life as well.

My parents are Ugandan immigrants. So the first time that I went to Uganda was in 1991, I believe.

So that was the first time I took that long transatlantic flight going home to see family.

But also my parents, you know, we did

domestic travel. I remember, you know, at six years old in 1990, going to Disney and getting my

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