What I Learned From Full-Time Travel—And Why I Stopped

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4.4 • 636 Ratings

🗓️ 20 August 2019

⏱️ 35 minutes

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For Jada Yuan, it was the job opportunity of a lifetime: the chance to visit 52 places in 52 weeks as The New York Times's 52 Places traveler. For Renee Hahnel, known on Instagram as Renee Roaming, full-time travel was a photography gig that meant piling into a tiny 15-by-six-foot van and photographing 59 national parks over nearly seven months. The two travelers did what we'd all love to do: pack up and just go, traveling without stopping for months on end. This week, the two—Renee just back from another photography trip to Kenya and Jada on vacation in the French Riviera—called in to share how they got started traveling full time, what it was really like, and how they're settling back into "normal" life.

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0:00.0	Hi everyone and welcome to women who travel, a podcast from Kondinass Traveler.
0:07.8	I'm Meredith Carey and with me, as always, is my co-host, Lale Airokoglu.
0:11.9	Hello.
0:12.7	This week, we're talking about something that's a bit of a dream for those of us that love to travel,
0:16.4	and that's spending weeks, months, and even years on the road as a full-time traveler.
0:20.4	We've brought in two experts on the subject who have each packed up, gotten rid of their apartments and homes,
0:25.2	and traveled for extended periods of time around the U.S. and the world.
0:28.8	Calling in from France, we have Jada Yuan, the former New York Times 52 places traveler
0:33.2	who tackled 52 destinations in 52 weeks in 2018, writing about each stop along the way.
0:39.2	She's now a political features writer at The Washington Post.
0:42.2	And from Seattle, we have blogger and photographer Renee Honnell, also known as Renee Roaming,
0:46.6	who tackled a seven-month journey to visit every national park in the U.S. with her husband,
0:50.5	Matthew. Thank you both so much for joining us.
0:53.9	Thanks to have to be here.
0:56.8	So we'll kick things off with a question that I'm sure you have both gotten asked before,
1:02.3	but I am still desperate to know the answer, which is what made you both decide to go on
1:08.1	this wild adventure in the first place? And you both have very different stories. So I'd love to know how you both kind of go on this wild adventure in the first place and you both have very different
1:11.2	stories so i'd love to know how how you both kind of reached that point and how you got started
1:16.6	with it all so i've been a freelance photographer and blogger and i'm also a new author as well
1:24.2	but i've been doing that for about three years now, and it wasn't always my
1:29.5	career path. I was a speech therapist before getting into photography. So, and you can probably
1:35.9	tell why my accent, some people are probably thinking, she doesn't sound American. I'm actually
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