Hi, I'm Laleigh Eric Coghley, and this is an episode of Women Who Travel,

and we're marking Valentine's Day with a return of our listener dispatches.

It's fun, it's candid, it's certainly not hallmark, and I think you'll enjoy it.

Thank you. not Hallmark, and I think you'll enjoy it. I was hoping that when he found out that I was traveling, that it would hurt him.

So we're drinking champagne on the streets with strangers and then running to more parties and more fireworks.

Fortunately in my tornado of packing, I had one sexy bra and lingerie set.

We joke that his love language is quiet,

which is not an actual love language.

I went so far as to put on a day glow bikini.

I went to the beach trying to get some attention.

I thought that she had never traveled because she lived with this woman who hated travel.

How am I going to get out of this?

How am I going to send him home and have my best friend come on the rest of the trip with me instead?

I was talking to my coworker about this incredibly hot Adonis,

and she said to me, does stuff like this happen to you all the time?

It was a Pilates retreat that I went to because my ex would not agree to go

to a Pilates retreat. I wanted to know the difference between being in the Alfama district versus

Vario Alto. My boyfriend couldn't care less.

Before we ask those listeners to dive deeper into their stories, I want to play a clip from

Jessica Nabongo. Based in Detroit and of Ugandan parentage, she's a regular here, the first

black woman to visit every country in the world and document her experiences.

She's next week's guest, and at the end of the conversation for that episode, I had to find out if she'd had an adventure she could share today.

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