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🗓️ 30 April 2018
⏱️ 40 minutes
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0:00.0 | Hi, this is Women Who Travel, a podcast from Kynanast Traveler that digs deep into the realities of traveling as a woman today and celebrates why we'll never stay home. |
0:14.1 | I'm Meredith Carey, and this is my co-host, Laleigh, Eric Koglu. |
0:16.9 | Hello. |
0:17.5 | Today we're talking about a bucketless trip traveling to Antarctica. Lolly and I have obviously never done that before. |
0:22.6 | And we're joined in our studio by Traveler contributor, Dordie Libby McGraw. |
0:26.6 | Hi. |
0:27.6 | And luxury luggage brand Paravelle's founder Indre Rockefeller. |
0:31.6 | Hi, pleasure to be here. |
0:33.6 | And we've got women who travel regular Nina Hahn joining us on Skype. |
0:36.6 | Very exciting. |
0:38.3 | Hello. |
0:40.1 | So I guess the first question, which I'm actually going to shoot to Jordi first, because you kind of have an interesting, complicated story about why you decided to visit Antarctica in the first place. |
0:50.8 | Well, it actually started a little over two years ago. My husband and I had made a pact |
0:55.8 | when we got married that we wanted to go to all the continents before we had children. |
1:01.8 | So obviously Antarctica is a continent, and it was the last one on our list. And we booked the |
1:08.4 | trip, we went this past January, and we booked the trip about a year and a half earlier, because you kind of have to do that when you're planning the trip. We went this past January and we booked the trip about a year and a half |
1:12.8 | earlier because you kind of have to do that when you're planning a trip to Antarctica. And I got |
1:17.0 | pregnant in September. So I actually ended up going to Antarctica five months pregnant. So it's still |
1:22.8 | before having children. But I just didn't realize I was going to be pregnant and that's how Antarctica came to be. |
1:29.1 | So we actually announced the fact that we were having a child from Antarctica because it was our last |
1:34.5 | and final continent and it's kind of a nice ending to that whole pact. |
1:39.0 | It's kind of the most precious photo. It's Dordy and her husband Ross and then a tiny penguin |
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