How We Learned to Love Traveling with Our Families: Women Who Travel Podcast - Condé Nast Traveler

How We Learned to Love Traveling with Our Families: Women Who Travel Podcast - Condé Nast Traveler

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Family travel comes in all shapes and sizes these days: Women Who Travel contributor Priya Krishna takes an annual trip with 20 of her extended family members; editor Megan Spurrell travels each July 4 with her sisters and mom; and editor Corina Quinn heads south, to coastal South Carolina, where her slew of nieces and nephews will be endlessly entertained. Truly experts when it comes to making everyone happy on long stretches of close family time, we asked these three how they survive—and even thrive—on their annual multi-gen trips. The key takeaways? Everyone needs alone time. Finding one spot to post up for the week or so you're spending together is much less stressful than moving between hotels. And trip planning is always easiest when there are fewer cooks in the kitchen (it's also a good time to hire a private chef). Listen in to this week's episode for more of their tricks.

Thanks to Megan, Corina, and Priya for joining us this week. And thanks as always to Brett Fuchs for engineering and mixing. Check back every Tuesday for the latest installment of Women Who Travel. To keep up with our podcast each week, subscribe to Women Who Travel on Apple Podcasts or Spotify and if you have a minute to spare, leave a review—we’d love to hear from you.

Read a full transcription of the episode below.

Meredith Carey: Hi everyone. And welcome to Women Who Travel, a podcast from Conde Nast Traveler. I'm Meredith Carey and with me as always, is my co-host, Lale Arikoglu.

Lale Arikoglu: Hello.

MC: This week we're talking about family travel. Now, this is not family travel with your own kids, this is like surviving family travel when you, a fully grown adult are the kid, or at least the niece and nephew babysitter. We've brought in a slew of editors and women who travel regularly to talk about their own experiences traveling with their extended families. We have Megan Spurrell, our community editor.

Megan Spurrell: Hi.

MC: Corina Quinn, Traveler's Director of City Guides.

Corina Quinn: Hello.

MC: And Priya Krishna, a Woman Who Travel contributor and author of the cookbook Indian-ish.

Priya Krishna: Hi.

MC: So you guys have all taken some pretty massive family trips this year alone, let alone in the past. So maybe starting with Priya, how does your family travel best? Like what really works for you?

PK: Like renting a house somewhere, and having that central point where everyone can gather and kind of choose their own adventure for the day. But I think having the central gathering place in a non-touristy locale is key.

LA: Paint a picture for us. How many of you are there? Age range?

PK: Oh my God.

LA: Are you in a van, a bus?

PK: So okay, one of the better ones was, we found this house in Umbria in Italy, which is sort of, it's adjacent to Tuscany, but lesser known, so the rentals are a lot cheaper. And we knew this person through a friend of a friend who was renting out her house, and it came with a pizza oven and a woman who made pizzas, Dina.

MS: Nice.

PK: She made us fresh biscotti every morning, too.

LA: God Bless Dina.

PK: Dina was amazing. And so, there were like 20 of us, and I think the youngest person maybe was 7 or 8. The oldest was probably my dad, he was in his 50s then. There was a pool, there was even a dinky little treadmill in the garage for people who wanted it. It was like an hour drive from towns like Assisi, so we could take day trips, so we had two rental cars. But some days we would just hang out at the house and make pizza or go swimming. I remember one day there was like a big wheat field, so me and my cousins harvested a bunch of wheat, and ground it up, and made rotis.

MC: I love it.

PK: We brought a lot of board games and cards, and it was just really fun, and it was so beautiful outside every day. So it was just very low stress, and didn't require a lot of planning.

MC: And Megan, how do your family trips usually net out?

MS: So it's usually, it's just my mom, my two sisters and I. We've just gotten back into doing like "We're adults and doing a family trip together" kind of things. So it's been a lot of me leading and being like, "Hey, this year I want to go to Puerto Rico. Let's go." And I think everyone's pretty game to have someone who wants to plan it, and just, they're happy to hop on and show up. So since we've just been starting it, it's been pretty good, because I've gotten to suggest places and everyone's on board.

But yeah, I think for us it's a lot about like, I'm starting to learn that the "Have a place to stay, and kind of chill, and do what you want” works the best. Because we definitely have different things we want to do with our time, and I want to find all the places I want to eat, and food is super important. And one of my sisters wants to make sure she can keep up her workouts, and she's training for the marathon, and so that matters. And so it's definitely been a balance of like learning everyone's need-to-haves every day.

LA: And Corina, I heard a rumor around the office that your family has an Excel spreadsheet.

CQ: There is an Excel spreadsheet. The Quinns are nothing if not Type A. We are 14 immediate. So I'm the youngest of four, and we've really evolved from the years when my siblings and I were right out of college and it was like, "Mom, Dad, rent us a beach house. And the guys are going to golf and we're going to drink beer and wine, and have lazy days on the beach." Now they're all married. We've got six kids between the ages of 5 and 14, so there's a lot of different factors we've got to think about. But yeah, so it requires an Excel spreadsheet, especially when you think about allergies and food intolerances, school breaks, activities.

And for the last couple of years, we've gone down to Palmetto Bluff in Bluffton, South Carolina. It's on the May River. There's a resort attached, the Montage Palmetto Bluff, but then we rent a house, so we kind of have the best of both worlds. We can tap into the restaurants and bars that are there for the adults. For the kids, we can rent canoes, we can take boats out for the day. The guys still have golf. And I think also what's nice, is we've been able to factor in, also with the spreadsheet, a private chef to do breakfast and a couple of meals. So then no one's on the hook for cooking for all those people, and cleaning up for them. And that was the key change we made in recent years that has taken our trips from good to great.

MC: I know that Megan and Priya, you guys usually travel to different destinations. Why has your family decided to stick with the thing that obviously works for you guys year after year?

CQ: It's funny you ask that because it's about to change. But we kind of just go in pairs of two to four years, where for a while, a very easy beach vacation was good. And then once the kids got like toddler age, it was like, oh wow, we need movies, we need Putt-Putt, we need activities, we need to time-block the day. Now that my oldest nephew is 14, we've only got a few more years until he goes to college. And so, the other kids are old enough that we can be a little more active. But basically it was sort of collectively looking at the needs of the different age groups of the kids, and letting that dictate what we do.

MC: Do you know where you're going in 2020?

CQ: So we're each, spreadsheet again, researching different things that we have a short list, and we're each tasked with a thing we're going to research and price out. So we're looking at sort of like a Montana ranch, dude ranch situation where there would be rodeo involved. We're looking at an Alaska cruise, a couple of other things.

LA: I have one other question for your family before we keep things moving. Which is, you mentioned that it's got bigger and bigger, vias as people have gotten married, and more people have joined the family. How has it been welcoming outsiders into the family trip fold?

PK: Well, yeah, that's tough.

CQ: People ask me this a lot, and I hope this isn't disappointing to them. I think our family is very welcoming. We're very excited for them to come on the fold. And I actually am very sympathetic for my in-laws, because I think we're a little much. So it's gone great for us, but I can kind of tell the moments when suddenly someone just disappears for a while without letting you know, and you find them later on a hammock with a book. And you're like, we were too much, right? We were talking. We were just too much, too many people, too many one room for too long. You start to kind of be sensitive to those things.

MS: The pressure I feel like is really on when you're in a small group. One of my sisters is about to get married, and I mean there's going to be a new person. If he joins us, it's going to be him and four of us. He is going to be so intimate. Like that is a lot of, you can't disappear with a book as easily.

CQ: I was going to say, just be mindful of the people who need to slip away without necessarily explaining themselves. And just cut them slack for it, don't take it personally.

PK: The thing that's really hard in our family is figuring out like how many years do you have to be together to warrant coming on a family trip.

CQ: Oh, yeah.

PK: It's really tough, and you never really know. And usually whoever's planning it will always be like, "Oh, does so-and-so want to come?" And I'm just like, okay, I guess that means that they are invited.

MC: Officially invited.

PK: Right? Yeah. Oh my God, my boyfriend in particular is totally the guy who's constantly leaving to go read a book.

CQ: It's a sign. You start to notice the tells.

PK: Yeah. He also, like our family is very particular. We have to be first to board all trains and buses, and Seth is very like, whatever, laissez-faire about it. So he gets very stressed seeing us like elbow people out of the way to throw our luggage onto the train. And also, several older members of my family treat Seth sort of like a valet, so he ends up lugging a lot of suitcases around. So I'm like, yeah, I get it if this can be stressful for you sometimes. And I feel like it's important to take a step back, and remember that it's your family, and there's outsiders coming in that are not used to their quirks.

CQ: Yeah. I hear a lot about people thinking about it from the idea of like, "Ooh, a new person's coming in." But I think the bigger thing is, my advice would be sensitive to that new person.

MC: Who has no idea what they're getting into.

CQ: Bless their hearts.

LA: I'd say, also just knowing when it's the right time to have a time out is key.

PK: Yeah.

CQ: Yeah.
LA: Whether you're the new person in the family or not.

MC: I'm wondering what it is about splitting up that makes every group trip, especially family trips, really important. I know Priya, you guys kind of have like designated like, "This is the art track, and these people are going on this", or "This is the outdoor track and you can like join." It feels like summer camp to me. Why do you guys really emphasize giving everybody options?

PK: The best way I can explain it is like, in this season of Stranger Things, how they separated everyone up into different groups, and it created new dynamics, and you discover different things about characters. And the characters discovered different things about themselves. There's just something about splitting up into groups where, especially groups where it wouldn't be a natural pairing. Like maybe you're partners with another group, but you're with a group with like two aunts.

It's just like you think you know your family, but being in these small intimate group settings is a really great way to get to know them in a different way. Also it's kind of funny seeing who signs up for what. Like I had no idea my great-uncle was so into cheese, and it ended up being just the two of us at a cheese tasting. And I really got to know him super well, and it turns out he knows a ton about cheese.

So I don't know, I just, I think it's, I mean I also, I'm a very big proponent of having big group dinners, but I love splitting up into groups. I think it's, I don't know, I think it's really nice just get to spend some, and I feel like, I don't know, it's just less stressful to be in a smaller setting.

MC: With four of you, Megan, how do you guys split off from each other and what kind of is the, when you were in Puerto Rico or in Belize earlier this year?

MS: I feel like it's, so our way of balancing everyone's different interests is doing them at different times. So it's like, okay, I really wanted to do this, bike on this really dusty path in 100-degree weather in Belize to these ruins I just had to see. And everyone's like, "Well, we're going to bigger, better, more important ruins tomorrow. Let's wait." And I was like, "That's really something I want to do. That's like something I want out of this trip." And so it's kind of like, "Okay, we can do that. And then this evening, Heather really wants to go to this place." So we kind of alternate with chunks of time because there are only four of us. So even if people do their own thing for breakfast in the morning, or break off after dinner, throughout most of the trip, it's a lot of like, if we split off, then we're not getting any time together or with anyone else. So it's kind of like we do everything together, but we divide our time and are kind of democratic in that way.

MC: My family started planning travel with non-negotiables, so everyone has to submit their one thing that during-

MS: Ooh.

MS: That's a great idea.

MC: During the trip we have to do so that everyone feels like they've had input, but also no person has five things that they have to do. It's like very egalitarian. And my brother just said for our most recent family trip to New Zealand, he was like, "I don't care." And we were like, "You're really giving up your opportunity to submit a non-negotiable?" He was like, "I'm going to be happy with whatever." And he was. But it has really changed it, because no one feels left out, and no one feels like, then they have to do all the planning. Because other people have to actually read the guidebook, or look into it, or do whatever.

PK: That's funny. We operate on a dictatorship in our family. In that one person plans that trip, and they do all the work, and then we don't question their work.

MS: Okay, so I'm the dictator.

MC: But do people question you? Because I feel like you guys have been traveling together long enough that I feel like the dictatorship might be unquestioned.

LA: And you have rotating dictators.

PK: Oh, there's like two dictates. All right.

CQ: But do people vote things they want to do to the, like-

PK: Nope.

MS: That's not how a dictatorship works.

CQ: Okay, fair enough.

MS: So okay, on our big trips, I am the dictator. It's like, so when you talked about choosing a destination, this is a thing that my mom has asked for for Christmas. Is she'll be like, she sends a really cute note of her Christmas list and it's for like, "Hang out with the dog, this thing I already bought myself that I'm wrapping and putting it under the tree for you guys, just sign your name on the card." And one of them is always like, "Someone plan a family trip."

So I always take that and what I've done, I started doing this a couple of years ago, is I make a slideshow of four places I think we should go. I have musical cues. I have three places in the country that I think would be interesting, and then it's like a fun thing, and then I can get away with calling this my gift. And then that's kind of the thing, is they get to vote on the one they want, we go there—and that's when the dictatorship starts. And I'm like, "Okay, you said Belize, so speak now on what you want out of this trip and your non-negotiables, essentially." And if you don't tell me now, I'm planning the whole thing my way.

And no one ever speaks up, and it's kind of understood that I found the place we stay, I looked up the restaurants, I have my Google Maps spotted with all the places I want to go. And Meredith is rolling her eyes at me, because I actually use Apple Maps and it's my deepest shame.

LA: It’s been a point of contention when we traveled together.

MS: Yeah, it's an issue. It's hard to migrate. Anyway, and, but yeah, so that's kind of the way we do it. And it's like, when we do smaller trips, like when we go visit my sister in Denver for the weekend, or when people are in New York. That's when it's a little muddier, because it's like no one's taken on this big burden where they can kind of be like, "I planned it, I did the work for you, so just go with it." But that's kind of what's easier about our bigger trips is it's very black and white. Like you just get onboard.

LA: So no one's tried to stage a rebellion?

MS: You get comments sometimes, but any leader knows how to handle them.

MC: What have been each of your, like most—you were mentioning the trip to Italy—but what do you feel like have been your most successful family slash large group trips to date?

CQ: I already said it, but I'll go back to Palmetto Bluff. Only because I think it has been a really sweet spot for the various age groups, and interests of what we want to do, that's been key. And the accessibility of it, everything's kind of right there. Whether you're need a last minute place to eat, emergency pool time for the kids because they're melting down, everyone can kind of like run off and do their things.

I also, because I'm the aunt that doesn't have children, I didn't realize that kids of a certain age need certain independence development when they're on vacation. So the fact that we can kind of send them out with their bikes, and they can go off on their own without an adult with them has been a very big deal for them. They can go and order food, they can go pick up things at like, there's a little general store, and just even seeing them kind of go off on their own without us constantly breathing down their necks has been good for them.

MC: I can remember being like 13 on vacation, and feeling so freaking cool that I got to go order something or pick something up, or go into a store by myself. Oh, the best.

LA: I mean you, like imagine that you're there alone without your parents, as though all the adults in the street are looking at you and being like, "That 13 year old took herself on holiday alone."

CQ: "How precocious."

MC: Megan, what do you think has been your most successful family trip thus far?

MS: Okay, I have two answers. I think, last year we went to Puerto Rico, which was like somewhere I really wanted to go after the hurricanes, and we've been covering a lot. And I was like, I keep telling everyone they need to go to Puerto Rico right now. I need to go to Puerto Rico right now. And that trip was really cool, because it was kind of a big turning point in us getting back into these family trips again as adults. And the island is really manageable with a car, and a few days. And I just felt like we could wake up in the morning, and we could go anywhere we wanted. We could end up going to the beach, or the rainforest, or go walk through old San Juan, and like eat a bunch of food.

And it felt really manageable, and it wasn't too big, and we didn't have to plan things, and that was really nice. And I think, I feel like we have a lot of personal connections to people who are from there. It just felt like we were all really excited to be there, and it was easy to do. But to your, Corina, your point about the dude ranch in Montana.

That is like the trip that I did when I was little. So we would go every Christmas, my whole family would go to a dude ranch, the same one in Montana. I'll find the name for if you want.

CQ: Please do.

MS: I feel like I've mentioned it before on this podcast, but it was just, that was like such a special place that we'd always go. Because you're in this safe area where you can just hop on to different activities, and it's so gorgeous. And I feel like that sparked a lot of interest in the outdoors, and animals, and things for me that were really special. And I feel like we think about those trips so fondly, even though they were a billion years ago.

LA: Priya, what about yours? Was it Dina the pizza maker?

PK: I think that was probably our most successful trip. I think one thing that is interesting that I've always talked to my parents about—this is not related, that I was just thinking about— is why we don't go to the same place every year. Why not just choose a house and rent the same house every year? And I've asked my parents that. And what they've basically said, and how I have interpreted that is my parents, I think because they are immigrants, they're deeply comfortable with being in a new place where they're uncomfortable, and they always wanted to instill that in us kids. They didn't want there to be a sense of familiarity and comfort when we came to a place, they wanted us to, they wanted there to be a lot of unknowns that we had to figure out, and they wanted us to not be able to speak the language, and to not be familiar with the food.

And I have to say, most of my friends grew up, and I understand the appeal of going to the same place every year. It's really nice, but I really appreciate that my parents went out of their way, or our family went other way to go somewhere different every year and drop us in a place where we were potentially uncomfortable and had some uncomfortable interactions, but it sort of all helped to build character, especially when we were really young.

LA: To that point, what was maybe one of the more challenging trips that wasn't the smoothest or most successful but has really, I don't know, maybe taught you something?

PK: Well, we went to Tobago, which is not a heavily touristed part of the world. Everyone goes to Trinidad, and there weren't really places to eat out. We got swindled by a mango salesmen on the beach, they ended up taking like $100 of our money.

LA: That's quite a mango.

PK: Well, he just grabbed all of the cash that was in our bag but we ended up, I mean it ended up being a really great vacation. Because we found this unmarked white van that sold doubles, which are basically like fry bread topped with like stewy chickpeas. And so, every day we would just like, at noon we would pull up to this sari shop, and the unmarked white van would come, and we had our little routines. We sort of figured out how to be locals in this place that's really not super friendly to tourists, and by the time we left it felt like we had friends on the island. And we were super comfortable, and that was one of those situations where I was like, "It's good to be plunged into discomfort every once in awhile."

MC: When, you're talking about a single instance where things maybe didn't go so well, but do you have a sense of like when you're at your worst? I know when my family gets really hungry, and it's like 10:00 p.m. and we haven't eaten, there will be no positive emotions. Everyone will fight, is the natural progression of how my family works. Are there moments that you think, "Okay, if we avoid this thing, the trip will go so smoothly?"

CQ: Tired and hungry. I'm with you. Especially going down the D.C Corridor, back when we used to do the Outer Banks. Like that 95 traffic, and then getting off at the Wright's Bridge in North Carolina can take your trip from which should have been 4.5 hours, to eight, or nine, or even 10, if it's really bad. And so, thinking that we were going to get in around 4:00 or 5:00 p.m., and lay on the beach for a bit before getting dinner, and checking into the house turned into no one had eaten, we'd been in a car for 10 hours, and now we're just getting into the house in the dark, and trying to unload the car has has turned into some of my not finer moments.

Yeah. I think early start times is the way to go if you're me. I don't mind getting up at 3:00 in the morning, and needing to be on a flight by 4:30, if I can avoid that.

MC: Megan, do you have things to avoid?

MS: Yeah, I feel like we definitely have moments on the trip where, I don't want to call someone cranky because that feels like you're starting something, but people get cranky. And it's like, yeah, when people are really tired, and you've had a long day. And I think it's like, Priya, your mango salesman story. Sometimes when things go wrong, it's funny. And there's sometimes when people are tired and it suddenly isn't funny, and people are pissed. And it's usually things you can't control, and so it's like, if you control the other factors of making sure everyone feels like they've been doing the things they want, and there aren't like underlying things, or if people haven't eaten in hours. Then you can manage those bumps that come up with traveling, and are the reason you travel so much more easily. So yeah, I think it's just doing what you can to like keep things going smoothly.

LA: I think one of the most infuriating things that my mum does when we're traveling as a family, is when I start to get slightly cranky, I'll see her just turn to my dad and just go, "Oh, she's hungry."

CQ: Like you're three.

LA: And I'm like, "No, I'm not." And then she's like, "See? You're getting touchy."

MS: That’s what I mean you can't, it's tough territory. It's not good.

CQ: Did you feed the child?

LA: Yeah. But the thing is, is that she's as bad as me, so I just turned the tables on her the next time she gets hungry. Which actually, food I feel like for me, is a huge part of traveling and planning trips. And my mum loves trying lots of different food, and that's a big priority for her. Whereas my dad could literally just like eat a couple of pieces of toast all day, and be like, "I'm good."

And so planning sort of lavish meals when we're all traveling together feels like I'm kind of doing it for myself, which isn't what you should be doing. And I'm wondering, Priya, you were saying having those big family meals is a really important thing to you. How do you kind of navigate the ways in which people prioritize food or don't?

PK: I mean, I'm a food writer, and I just have to accept that I'm more than likely not going to be having any writing-worthy dining experiences, because we are a party of 20-plus. There are limited the number of restaurants that can take a party of 20-plus. And it's okay if we're just going out for pizza. It's not about me finding the best meal of my life, it's about spending time as a family. And I think once you realize that you're not going to get to go to that taco place—or if you do, you're going to have to go on your own time—it is very freeing. And I think I always try and sneak in a few little food stops, and it helps that now when I go, my partner is with me so the two of us can just kind of sneak away for a little bit.

Or weirdly, my family went to Norway this year and they were all super down to go to all the restaurants that I was recommended. So we ended up, like that was just a total fluke, that never happens. But I mean, I think you just have to be okay with the fact that you're going to have some okay meals—especially if it's a really big group—and that's okay. And I think maybe you can try and plan one really great one, but when you're a party that big, it just becomes really, really tough. It was like, if it were my family, just the four of us, we could, but not with my extended family.

LA: Corina, is that why you got the chef?

CQ: Yeah, and it's been, so I echo everything Priya said. And I also think one way we've gotten around it is with the chef. Again, people get very tired if they're on vacation, and they're planning a meal, and grocery shopping, and cooking, and doing dishes. We figured that real quick, it's not much of a vacation for everyone. So the chef is an easy cost. He's cooking, he's cleaning, and then we picked themed nights. Especially, I mean with the kids, it's fun. So you can do taco night, we can have lasagna night. Kids get really excited about it, and then we don't really think too hard about if it's the most mind-blowing meal. It's like, everyone's having fun, everyone's having a good meal.

And then my mom always picks her dinner night, because we trade-off the organization. My mom always picks the night that she pays for a babysitter, and that's our big meal out just for the adults. And then we can really kind of go for it and get the really fun wines, and food, and feel like we did something.

MC: Is there a max time or a minimum amount of time that you should plan a large extended family vacation for?

PK: We do a year out.

MC: And you guys go for like two weeks at a time?

PK: We go for, it's like seven to 10 days usually. And a year out as the only way, it's like planning a wedding.

MC: Do you already have 2020 planned?

PK: Yeah.

MC: Or an idea of it?

PK: Yeah, we do have 2020 plan.

MC: You want to spoil where you're going?

PK: We're, you can rent a castle in Scotland.

CQ: Fun.

PK: And they come with, you can rent them with chefs that come.

MS: I knew they were going to come with someone.

PK: There's lawn games, and so we're renting a castle on the Scottish countryside. And it's not like, I don't, castle's aren't uniquely fancy, but they're just the only thing large enough to fit our family.

LA: I can't help but imagine an episode of Succession.

PK: Yeah.

MC: Corina, how long do you guys usually go for and how long do you plan out?

CQ: Yeah, we're about a year too. Just because with the school schedules, we have to start factoring that in and then everyone else has to take a week off of work. So it takes a while to make sure everyone can kind of align on what those dates are, and then book something.

MC: And you start in December-ish? For a summer soiree?

MS: Yeah, we make it a Christmas thing. What we've done, that's worked really well, is we go over the 4th of July, because I feel like we're all okay leaving the country at that time. And we all get a certain number of days off at that time, and so it's just like an easy standing date. So, you know the of the Fourth you're going somewhere. Two of the four of us live in New York where it's freezing. In the winter, we are talking about switching that to one of the three day weekends in February when it's cold, and actually want to get out of here. But I think like having a date, that might then become our standing date every year. Where you always know it's that week of MLK Day, or whatever it is. So that's been really helpful.

LA: And also on timing, do you think there is a sweet spot for the length of trip? Is there a point in which it's your together for too long?

PK: I think seven to 10 days is the max, maybe seven.

CQ: And I don't think you should do less than seven, because no matter who you are, that's just not enough time to kind of get into vacation mode, and then really relax.

MS: Yeah. I think a lot of ours are like five to seven, and maybe because there's fewer of us, and you get so much one on one time.

CQ: Yeah, that's true.

MS: That really works. But I think it's like, and also on our last trip, we kind of had a week long chunk. And one sister had to arrive a little bit later, like you have, it allows time for that staggering if you need to do it.

MC: And I feel like especially if you're posting up at a single place, that flexibility is so much of an option for people to be able to come in and out as needed, versus like catching up late at a different city, and having to worry about multi-city flights or anything like that.

To wrap up, Priya and Corina have already shared their potential 2020 trips. Megan, what are you pitching? Spurrells, log out now. What are you thinking about?

MS: I can't possibly spoil it. I'll think about it like the week before. But I think we've done Latin America, like kind of Caribbean spots for the past two, so somewhere else. I know one of my sisters really wants to go to Italy, but I am not sold on the idea of doing a city. I think it's been nice how we've been kind of an areas that are kind of what you talked about Priya, just being in a house, posted up somewhere, and be able to do day trips, but like have a hub, and so that's kind of, I'm trying to find somewhere we can do that. Maybe it's the countryside. We'll see.

MC: Amazing. If people want to follow your family vacations, or regular vacations, or just lives in general, where can they find you on the internet? I guess we'll start with Priya.

PK: I'm @pkgourmet on Twitter and Instagram.

MC: Amazing. Corina?

CQ: I'm @corinaquinn on Twitter and Instagram.

MS: @spurrelly.

LA: @lalehannah.

MC: And I'm @ohheytheremere. You can catch new episodes of Women Who Travel every Tuesday, and review us on Apple Podcasts and Spotify. And double check womenwhotravel.com, because we always have new meetups, and trips, and all the sorts of things. We'll talk to you next week.

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