Hi everyone and welcome to a new episode of Women Who Travel, a podcast from Connie Nass Traveler. I'm Meredith

Carrie, and with me as always is my co-host, Lolliara Coglue. Hello. There's been a whole lot of change

in the travel space since our last frequently asked questions episode in January, which has led to plenty

of confusion and an equal amount

of excitement for the travel to come. This week, we're answering the questions you submitted

on Instagram covering everything from news that the European Union is opening to American

travelers this summer to the sunny destinations we love closer to home. Joining us to offer

advice, our associate editor, Megan Sparell. Hi. And transportation editor Jessica Puckett.

Hi.

Thank you both for chatting with us today.

I just want to preface this conversation with the fact that this feels like the first time in a long time that we get to be excited about travel in a real and familiar way that we haven't in about a year.

The planning is happening.

We are executing the trips we've been dreaming about on this podcast for ages now.

And so naturally, everyone has a lot of questions, including Elaine and Catherine, who both

DMed us over Instagram this week, who want to know what are some

good summer destinations that we should be booking right now, specifically also for vaccinated

travellers? So if we want to talk domestic US destinations, somewhere that I think

plenty of people visited last year, but I think we'll be even more exciting and packed, honestly,

this year will be national parks. They offered such an escape in the last year for everyone to get

outside and be able to explore and have more space to move around and maybe be maskless if they

wanted to. And I think going forward, just being able to plan longer trips to the

national parks, be able to stay in the places you want to stay, and really get to be outside for a

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