Travel Host Samantha Brown on Spending Nearly a Year at Home
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Condé Nast Traveler
4.4 • 636 Ratings
🗓️ 20 January 2021
⏱️ 30 minutes
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Summary
When we last spoke to travel host Samantha Brown in 2018, a border-shuttering, flight-grounding pandemic was nowhere on our radar. Flash forward to March 2020, and a season's worth of filming and production planning for her show, Places to Love, was canceled in a matter of weeks. For the first time in years, she's been staying put in Brooklyn, where she lives with her husband and twins. “I always knew that I love to travel, but I didn't realize that it was just so ingrained in who I was,” she tells us on this week's episode. “Whether it's in an airport, or getting a meal, or someone I talk to at a hotel who helps me get to my next destination … I just love those quick spontaneous meetings with strangers. That's what I miss the most.”
In our first episode of 2021, we're catching up with Samantha to talk about how she's spent the last year mostly at home, what it took to film a few episodes of Places to Love amid the pandemic in the fall, and what travel trends we might see when we get to the other side.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi everyone and welcome to our first episode of Women Who Travel in 2021. |
| 0:09.0 | I'm Meredith Carey and with me as always is my co-host, Sallaira Koglu. |
| 0:13.0 | Hello! |
| 0:14.0 | We've been recording this podcast from our respective homes for the last 10 months and while we haven't been able to travel far, |
| 0:19.0 | we've been finding new ways to keep that traveling spirit alive. We've both been reading books as escapes and watching TV shows filmed in our favorite destinations to tide us over. This week's guest travel host, Samantha, is usually the one on the ground in those locales telling us where to visit and who to meet, but like the rest of us, she's been staying closer to home the past year. |
| 0:41.7 | I know Lolly and I are so excited to have you back, Samantha, to chat about what you have and haven't been up to. Thanks so much for joining us. |
| 0:45.1 | Oh, it is such a pleasure to be back with you both. |
| 0:48.6 | 2021, it's the year of travel. |
| 0:51.7 | We know it. |
| 0:52.8 | The exact spirit we need on this episode. |
| 0:55.8 | Seriously, both personally and for a sort of wider brand wise. Yes. So, oh God, it pains me to |
| 1:06.5 | say it and Meredith already said it, but it's been almost a year without any major travel or really |
| 1:12.5 | travel at all. What has it been like being home instead of being on the road filming places to |
| 1:19.4 | love? And what have you missed the most about travel over this past year? |
| 1:24.4 | Oh, wow. It's just been really rough. I mean, I guess I always knew that I loved to travel, but I didn't realize just the necessity that was just so ingrained in who I was just to be somewhere else and to really learn from other people. And I think for me, what has been most difficult is just meeting strangers and just that spontaneous meeting |
| 1:46.4 | of people and maybe only having five minutes with them, but then moving on. |
| 1:50.7 | And whether it's in an airport or getting a meal or someone I talk to at a hotel who helps me |
| 1:56.2 | get to my next destination or tells me where the coffee shop that I should check out is, |
| 2:00.8 | I just love those |
| 2:01.9 | quick, spontaneous meetings with strangers that really I had some inkling that they were |
| 2:10.1 | important in my life, but none so much as I have realized this past year. That is what I have |
| 2:16.6 | missed the most. In terms of keeping busy, it has been |
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