Hey, everyone, this is Women Who Travel, a podcast from Connie Nass Traveler that digs deep into the realities of traveling as a woman today and celebrates why we'll never stay home.

I'm Meredith Carey, and with me, Perjouge, is my co-host, Laleaerre Coglu.

Hello.

And this week, we are joined by the one and only Tyler Wetherall, whose book No Way Home,

A Memoir of Life on the Run, published by St. Martin's Press, came out in April.

She wrote a little excerpt from her book, or kind of an offshoot of it, for our Women

Who Travel Package, which came out earlier this year.

But we wanted you to come on because your story is so incredibly interesting and it deserves

way more it deserves a whole book really which kind of is how it all worked out so la la you edited

the story do you want to start off with your line of questions first yes yes um it would be like we're

editing again i don't want to give away you too much what happens in the book, but I think we can talk

about your essay and you talk about this unconventional childhood that you had and the way

that that kind of molded you into the sort of traveller that you are now.

And I think when you wrote the essay for us,

it was sort of a bit of a light bulb moment for you

and that you hadn't quite connected the two things

that your childhood and travel had actually been

quite so intertwined.

Yeah, it took me an amazingly long time to work that out.

I remember an earlier draft, the book, and someone

who read it said, you haven't mentioned that you're a travel writer. And to me, that it had

been completely irrelevant that I'd spent my childhood on the run and then became a travel

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