Hi, Lale here. Before we start this week, we wanted to let you know that this was recorded on October 28th ahead of the US's November 3rd election, which is why there's no mention of it in the episode.

And now I'll hand it over to Meredith.

Hi everyone, you're listening to Women Who Travel, a podcast from Connie Nass Traveler. I'm Meredith Carey, and with me, as always, is my co-host, Balaura Coglum. Hello. This week, we're here to answer your questions in our final FAQ episode of the year, so thank you to everyone who submitted their questions on Instagram. Joining us to help dole out some advice, our Traveler's associate editor, Megan Sparell.

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And Articles Director, Stephanie Wu.

Hi, guys.

God, last FAQ episode of the year. What a sentence.

Especially when, you know, we have not been moving in the same way we have been in the past.

And yet, I will say so much to talk about when it comes to travel and so much that we'll

tackle in this episode.

There's never been more questions around travel.

Truly.

And we'll kick things off with a question that came in from Jordan Meyer, who says, my family

seems to have forgotten that we are in a pandemic when it comes to planning

holiday travel. Do you have any advice? Jordan is definitely not the first person, I think,

to have come into this issue this year, even just in terms of friends that I know who have faced

similar dilemmas and difficult conversations. So much so that Megan, I kind of want to turn the question to you first because you tackled this a bit in a advice column from over the summer about summer travel that I think can apply to a lot of what people are going through right now. Yeah, I actually was just laughing when I saw this because it feels like so many people are dealing

with this. And it also feels like if you can't talk to your family about your comfort zones right now

and what is okay, like who can you talk to? It's such a dilemma. And Jordan, you are definitely

not alone. But I think, you know, when we did that advice column, it was really talking about how to have these conversations with your family. So I think, you know, the first question is, like, is everyone even comfortable with the trip? And I think that in the early stage of planning before, you know, group text thread gets carried away with looking at Airbnbs, like everyone should get on a call or a FaceTime or a Zoom and like

actually talk about what the goal is, what you're comfortable with and also what you're really

not okay with. And like, I know that that is easier said than done and there's a lot of feelings

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