We Learned How to Love Travel From Our Mothers
Women Who Travel | Condé Nast Traveler
Condé Nast Traveler
4.4 • 636 Ratings
🗓️ 7 May 2019
⏱️ 45 minutes
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Summary
In this episode, we interview our own mothers, covering everything from Lale's mom's by-the-seat-of-her-pants motorcycle adventure across Europe and Asia to the time Meredith's mom moved abroad to South Africa in the 1980s. Plus, we're joined by Traveler's social media manger Jeryl Lippe, her sister (regular Traveler contibutor) Jordi Lippe-McGraw, and their mother, Suzanne, to talk about climbing Israel's Mount Masada at seven-months pregnant and why she indulged Jordi's preteen Twister fantasy of tornado chasing. In the meantime, we learn a little bit more about our moms—and realize just how much their obsessions with travel have rubbed off on us.
*As we mentioned in the beginning of the episode, we're headed to Los Angeles on May 17 for another live taping—this time with Kelly Sawdon, who is responsible for masterminding that oh-so-cool Ace Hotel aesthetic we've all come to know and love. You can find more info and an RSVP link for the meetup and live podcast here: https://www.cntraveler.com/story/women-who-travel-live-podcast-los-angeles-here-we-come.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, everyone, and welcome to Women Who Travel, a podcast from Kynanast Traveler. |
| 0:08.5 | My name is Meredith Carey, and before we get started with this week's episode, my co-host |
| 0:11.7 | Lolly and I wanted to let you know that we are heading to Los Angeles on May 17th for our next live podcast. |
| 0:17.1 | We'd love to see you there. |
| 0:18.7 | All of the details of who will be joining us and how you can attend will be in the show notes, so make sure to check it out. |
| 0:24.0 | Back to this week's episode. |
| 0:25.3 | In honor of Mother's Day, that's May 12 for those of you who haven't mailed your cards yet. |
| 0:29.3 | We decided to do something a little different and interview moms, our moms, about their travels. First up is the dear Nikki Ericoglu, who was in town a few weeks ago to chat with Lale |
| 0:38.6 | about the time she and her then boyfriend rode a motorbike from London to Asia with stops |
| 0:43.6 | in Europe and the Middle East along the way. I'll let Lolle take it away. We left in mid-July |
| 0:50.5 | 78 and we returned beginning of February 79. |
| 0:55.4 | So you start off in London, which is where you were living, still live. |
| 0:59.5 | And where did you go from there? |
| 1:00.8 | You packed up your bags, you got on the bike. |
| 1:03.3 | Well, we packed up our bags and meant to have a very early start on our departure |
| 1:07.4 | but didn't actually leave till 6.30 in the evening because we forgot our |
| 1:12.7 | passports and various things like that, very, very organised. We drove down to Dover, went over to |
| 1:20.0 | Ostend on the night crossing and then just got on the autobans and drove as fast as possible |
| 1:26.2 | to Yugoslavia, which was obviously still |
| 1:29.6 | communist then under Tito, went down the coastline to Dubrovnik and Koto up over the mountains. |
| 1:38.9 | And we were very intent on getting to Istanbul because we felt that was where the real |
| 1:44.0 | travelling would start, which was crazy in retrospect Istanbul because we felt that was where the real travelling would start, |
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