Hey everybody, welcome to today's episode of Atlas Obscura.

And today we're going to do something that we once in a while do, which is instead of

telling you about a specific place, we try to answer a question from you, the audience,

or sometimes it's posed to me by a colleague.

We're going to talk about a pretty deep question about travel, about life.

And this question, the thing that sparked this episode, was asked by my colleague, Camille.

Camille asked me, if there was anything on my travel list that I was saving for a particular

moment in my life.

And Camille, if you thought you could ask me a simple travel question without it turning

into some kind of vast existential, uh, quandary of how growing old you underestimate me.

I'm Dylan Therese and this is Atlas Obscura, a celebration of the world's strange, incredible

and wondrous places.

And in this Q&A episode, I'm talking about travel, aging, and to some very special people

who have been through it all and who maybe can tell me about what awaits.

Hello.

Hello.

How are you all?

That's after this.

Act One, Travels of the Young and Reckless.

So this question about what kind of travel you might save for particular time in your life

got me thinking about where I am in my own life and travel journey.

You know, as a kid, my travel was pretty modest.

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