Travel mini-series: Jessica Nabongo visits every country
Life and Art from FT Weekend
Forhecz Topher
4.6 • 601 Ratings
🗓️ 9 November 2022
⏱️ 13 minutes
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Summary
In the second episode of our special mini-series on travel, Lilah talks with Jessica Nabongo. Jessica is one of the few people, and the first black woman on record, to have visited every country in the world. Her book, The Catch Me If You Can, was published by National Geographic earlier this year. Jessica tells us about acts of kindness in Iraq, Zanzibar’s beaches, the food in Senegal, and more stories from some of the 195 countries she’s visited. She also gives us tips for where to go and how to travel well.
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Links:
Jessica’s travel blog: https://thecatchmeifyoucan.com/
Her list of destinations: https://thecatchmeifyoucan.com/destinations
Jessica is on Instagram @thecatchmeifyoucan and Twitter @thecmiyc
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This episode was produced by Zach St Louis. Mixing and sound design by Tommy Bazarian.
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| 0:31.2 | Hi, FD weekend listeners. |
| 0:33.1 | Welcome to the second episode of our special mini-series on travel. |
| 0:38.1 | Today I'm joined by writer and photographer Jessica Nabongo. |
| 0:42.4 | Jessica has done what seems impossible. |
| 0:44.7 | She's traveled to every country in the world. |
| 0:47.4 | It's estimated that less than 500 people have done it. |
| 0:50.7 | And Jessica, who is Ugandan American, is also the first black woman on record to have done it. |
| 0:56.3 | Jessica wrote a book about her experiences called The Catch Me If You Can. It was published by |
| 1:00.7 | National Geographic. And she's come on to tell us what she's learned about human beings. She'll |
| 1:05.6 | give us tips on traveling alone and traveling for long stretches. And she's got an excellent list of places that |
| 1:12.2 | will inspire you for your next trip. This is FT Weekend, the podcast, special travel edition. I'm Lila |
| 1:18.4 | Raptopoulos. Let's get into it. Jessica, welcome to the show. It's such a pleasure to have you |
| 1:26.5 | here. Thank you so much for having me. |
| 1:28.8 | So you have traveled the world. You've seen every country at least once. That's 195 countries. |
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