Stamped: Melissa Delaware - From Australian Beginnings to Global Adventures

What sparks a lifelong love of travel? For some, it starts in childhood. For Melissa, co-host of Ladies Who Travel, it was different. She did not travel overseas until she was an adult, and her journey from novice to explorer shows how travel can shape a life. 

In this month’s Stamped episode, Melissa shares the moments that defined her: wandering Sydney at 19 with a paper map, the pull of “The Beach,” and a three-month solo round-the-world trip at 26. That journey transformed her confidence. “There’s something about travelling alone that makes me feel on top of the world.”

She brings to life magical moments, such as watching her daughter experience snow for the first time in Prague, and explains why Thailand keeps calling her back. 

Perhaps most revealing is her observation about landmark attractions: after visiting the Taj Mahal with a group, not a single person named it their highlight. Instead, everyone cherished human connections. Whether you are a seasoned traveller or just beginning, this conversation offers insight into creating meaningful travel experiences. 

Listen now, then join our "Ladies Who Travel" Facebook group or explore our tours specifically designed for women over 50.

⭐️ Guest - Melissa Delaware from "The Queensland Travel Guide"
📝 Show Notes -Episode  72

🎧 Listen to next

• Episode #18 – Queensland Travel Tips: Beaches, Outback Adventures, and Hidden Gems
• Episode #32 – Brisbane Day Trips: Islands, Wildlife, and Hidden Gems
• Episode #47 – Pack Like a Pro: Essential Tips, Tricks + Travel Hack

Chapters

• 0:00 Introduction to Stamped Series
• 1:25 First Travel Experiences and Inspirations
• 5:11 Solo Travel Adventures Abroad
• 10:30 Memorable Moments in Prague
• 14:00 Thailand and Queensland Outback
• 22:50 Travel Tips and Reflections
• 28:00 Closing and Contact Information

Transcript

Speaker 1: 0:00

It's time for another stamped episode where we dive into the trips, places and moments that leave their mark. Today, Melissa joins me to share the memories behind her favourite adventures, the travels that changed her and the memories she'll never forget.

Speaker 2: 0:12

Welcome to the Global Travel Planning Podcast. Your host is founder of the Global Travel Planning website, tracy Collins. Each week, tracy is joined by expert guests as she takes you on a journey to destinations around the world, sharing travel inspiration, itinerary ideas and practical tips to help you plan your next adventure. Join us as we explore everywhere, from bustling cities to remote landscapes, uncover cultural treasures and discover the best ways to make your travel dreams a reality.

Speaker 1: 0:51

Hi and welcome to this week's episode of the Global Travel Plan and Podcast, which is also this month's episode of Stamped, which is our series where I ask 10 questions to travel loving women about their travels around the world and what has shaped their experiences. So this week we have Melissa, our Lady who Travel, co-host for her episode of Stamped.

Speaker 1: 1:11

Can't do an episode of Stamped without having you in one of the first earlier episodes and I'm going to be in an episode in a few months' time if people want to know about my experiences. So, hi, melissa, it's always great to chat with you. Yes, always great to talk travel, absolutely well, we do it all the time. I think that's what we it's, it's a way whenever we get together, that's uh, that's where we're going to go, where we've been, our, our plans, our memories, and obviously we have ladies who travel to us now. So if you are interested, if you are a, a lady over 50 or slightly older, like myself, and you want to travel the world, we have created tours for women, by women.

Speaker 1: 1:50

So Melissa and I have designed these tours. So do take a look on the website. I will link to our tours that we have on at the moment and you can see if, if one of those appeals, or both of those appeals, and you want to come and join us on a future tour. But should we get on and ask? I know this is difficult. I've had some feedback from some previous guests saying actually it's harder than you think to answer these questions. So should we dive in with the first one of who lit the spark for you when it comes to your love of travel?

Speaker 3: 2:24

Yeah, well, being a travel blogger, people might this might come as a surprise to people, but I didn't travel as a child and I didn't go on my first plane ride or trip until I was an adult, and the first time was my older sister. She moved to Sydney. So you know, I grew up in Brisbane, I still live in Brisbane. My older sister moved to Sydney. So you know, I grew up in Brisbane, I still live in Brisbane. My older sister moved to Sydney for work and I was I think I was about 19 at the time and I decided to go and visit her and most of the time, you know, she was at work during the day and I just wandered around the streets of Sydney way before you know the internet was a thing on your phone, just walking around, getting quite lost, having a paper map, and I just loved it.

Speaker 3: 3:13

There was something really really freeing and exciting about being alone in a city I'd never been before, just walking. Um, yeah, and I remember her telling me because you know I was a little sister and she told me now don't you go to King's Cross? Um, so I went to King's Cross, of course, as you do, and just because she told me not to and just yeah, look, it was just exciting. Um, so that was sort of from a personal influence. But another thing I really really remember that really got me excited is do you remember the movie the Beach with Leonardo DiCaprio?

Speaker 3: 3:54

A couple of things in that movie. I looked it up and I think it came out like around in 2000, which, again, I hadn't traveled overseas at that stage and I remember watching him as a young adult wandering through the streets of Bangkok by himself and he was just like really excited. And that's how I felt in Sydney and watching him I was like I want to do that, I want to go somewhere in a different country. And yeah, and then, of course, the scenes of him in Maya Beach, those beautiful scenes. So not surprising that my second overseas trip was to Thailand influenced by the beach. So I still have fond memories of watching that movie, just how I wanted to experience the world. So I think that's where the spark came from for me.

Speaker 1: 4:41

And interestingly from that as well, like you say, you didn't travel when you were young, but that trip, that first trip that you did, kind of captured your imagination and then you've been able to kind of recognize that feeling when you watch that movie as well and kind of then wanting to go from there, and I know you mentioned that Thailand was the second place that you went to. But for the second question that I always ask is where did your passport journey begin? So where was the first country that you ever visited?

Speaker 3: 5:12

Well, the first trip I ever went to was the USA. It was my honeymoon. I got married in 2000,. Which was also the Sydney Olympics in 2000 at the time that I got married. So I remember the flights out of Australia were really, really cheap because everyone was coming to Australia and so we got I can't remember the deal now, but we got a really good deal to go to America and, like I said, I'd never traveled as a kid. I got married pretty young. I was only 23, never traveled as a kid. Um, I got married pretty young. I was only 23 and um, my husband hadn't traveled either and we were really just kids. So we went to Disneyland for our honeymoon and um, had a ball, um, but you know, we also went to Hollywood and um, uh, san Francisco, uh, las Vegas and the Grand Canyon and um, yeah it, yeah it was.

Speaker 1: 6:05

It was a lot of it was a lot of fun oh, it certainly sounds like I've not been to the Grand Canyon or um or Las Vegas yet. I have to say they're quite high on my uh I'd love to visit. So what an exciting place to go for your, for your first trip out of Australia as well, um, and I guess that felt like an adventure. But for the next question what would be the first trip that you did really feel like an adventure for you? Was it a destination or an experience that made it feel different?

Speaker 3: 6:34

Well, I was thinking about this and you know I've been to some really incredible places since I started travelling, but I think my first real big adventure, if you like, was my first solo trip. Unfortunately, that marriage did not last very long. I was only young and I had, by that time, really caught that travel bug. So when my marriage finished, I was 26 and I went on a three-month solo trip basically around the world. I think it was my fourth time overseas by this time and I tried to organize some trips with some girlfriends and I just couldn't pull it off and I just thought you know, I'm just going to do it by myself. So, yeah, I was a bit nervous because I hadn't I hadn't traveled very much, and then I certainly hadn't traveled alone. So I kind of had this idea that I might not even speak to another person for three months. Of course, that wasn't true.

Speaker 3: 7:33

I remember the first well, not the first place I went to. I went to Singapore and then I went to Mykonos. Can you believe? You know, 26 year old young girl, I just wanted to go and party. I went to Mykonos and I was um. So that was a second Singapore first, mykonos second, and I was checking into the hotel and I could just see someone came over and said, are you from Australia? And I was like yeah, and then she's like, oh, do you want to hang out? And so I made this friend like almost as soon as I checked, checked into this hotel and um, yeah, um, and I traveled.

Speaker 3: 8:06

I went, you know, into Europe for a bit and then I went over to New York and Niagara and I just had so much fun and, yeah, it kind of brought me back to that first time being that young girl in Sydney by myself. Just, yeah, how amazing it is. Traveling by yourself is something. Just, you know, I'm probably not the most confident person, but there's something about me when I travel, and particularly traveling alone, that I feel like I'm on top of the world and I feel I've got this and I can do this and it just gives me this massive confidence boost and boost my self-esteem and I just love it. But, yeah, that was probably my first big adventure traveling all over the world.

Speaker 1: 8:48

Um, yeah, by myself oh, it sounds like it's very common, obviously, for Australians to to go and do this big adventure leave Australia and go off and and explore, explore the world and and doing that solo though it's. It's incredible, and did you plan it all before you left or did you just kind of make it up as you went?

Speaker 3: 9:07

no, it was all planned um, but you know, back back then, um, so that would have been 2003. Um, you know, it was all planned by Lonely Planets. I remember buying, um, I think it was um Europe on a shoestring or something like that. But I also had Greece. I wanted to go to Greece and I had the US one, and so, yeah, just planning. I can't even remember, to be honest. I think I went into a flight centre and had paper tickets and stuff like that. I remember going into internet cafes to talk to people from home or ringing up in phone boxes. So very different to how travel is done today, but yeah it still brings up some pretty fun memories for me.

Speaker 3: 9:55

Just, yeah, super exciting, but look, it's not all. Also, I'd like to say it's not all. You know rainbows and unicorns. I actually got really sick on that trip as well, and I ended up in hospital in Venice and in London with pleurisy. I think a little bit too much partying in Mykonos, um and um, yeah, at some times I was thinking I should cut the trip short, but I didn't. I just kept going and um, yeah, managing to go to hospital alone. Um, you know, just I did it. And yeah, it was just. It's incredible doing all that on your own as a young woman.

Speaker 1: 10:33

I think, yeah exactly, I mean it's incredible doing all that on your own as a young woman, I think. Yeah, exactly, I mean it's an incredible learning experience, and I see it giving you that boost in confidence. Now, what about wow moments? Can you describe a place or a moment that completely blew you away?

Speaker 3: 10:46

You know there's been lots of wow moments travelling the world, but, yeah, trying to prepare for this question, one that came to mind was with my daughter in Prague. My daughter was about eight or nine, I suppose, and she'd never seen snow before, and it was Christmas time and we were just sitting inside having breakfast and we could just start seeing the very, very fine flutter of snow. And my daughter was up and out there, um, you know, and so this is like probably eight o'clock in the morning, you know, people going to work, and here's this Aussie kid out there with not a lot of gear on, because she just ran out without putting her jacket on. Just you know, um, putting her hands out and opening her mouth and just touching this very, very fine flutter of snow. Um, and I came out with it. I'd never seen snow fall from the sky either. I'd seen it on the ground but not fall. So I thought it was pretty incredible.

Speaker 3: 11:41

But as the day went on, the snow just got heavier and heavier and heavier. And my daughter, just, she kept picking it up in her hands and, you know, as we were going through a day, she was creating this huge snowball. It was getting bigger and bigger and bigger and she wouldn't let it go. And it was cold and we're going into a cafe and she wanted to bring this snowball in the cafe and I was like you can't, you know, you're just going to have to put it outside. And she's like someone's going to take it away. And I'm just like you know, these people see snow all the time. They don't care about your snowball and, yeah, it was still there when we came out. But just, you know, and I've got videos and I love watching the videos of her collecting this snowball. Every time I see them, they bring this huge smile on my face and it's just precious, precious memories that travel, yeah, creates for us.

Speaker 1: 12:34

Have you got any other wow moments? I mean, that's a pretty big one.

Speaker 3: 12:40

Many, many, many. I you know I could probably list so many, but yeah, that's probably a big one. You know, sometimes it's not even those really big things that you think are going to be really incredible. Like something that comes to mind, tracy and you were involved in this when we were in India and in that trip we'd been to the Taj Mahal, which is on most people's bucket lists, and you know it was on my bucket list and it was absolutely incredible.

Speaker 3: 13:11

But when we were sitting down with the group of women at the end of the trip and the tour guide asked each one of us what was your favorite thing you did on this trip, um, and not a single person said seeing the Taj Mahal, and. And she said at the end, she said how come? None, no one said the Taj Mahal and and the thing that, all the things that people said, they were all sort of moments, more interactions with people, as opposed to an attraction or anything, and to me, I think that's what is incredible about travel, that yeah, sure you want to go to Paris to see the Eiffel Tower or to see the Grand Canyon, but often what you come away with is those interactions or experiences that you had, rather than seeing those landmarks. Yeah, so that's what?

Speaker 1: 14:03

yeah, that's the kind of interesting thing yeah, I think it's the people that stay in your memory. For sure, that's what I think about as well for travel. It's the people that make the places and those interactions, and for me, it's always's the people that make the places and those interactions, and, and and. For me, it's always about learning about, how it's always been for me, learning about how other people live.

Speaker 1: 14:20

I'm just so nosy, but I want to know about their lives we share a planet, but we all live, so we're all the same but we all live so differently, and it's just want to figure out what those experiences are, um, but anyway, let's turn our attention to um, because not not every place is somewhere that you want to go back to, uh, or you want more of so is there a place that you've been to and you, you know it's like one and done, you don't feel the need to go back?

Speaker 3: 14:50

yeah, and I think this is going to probably surprise some people a bit, because I know a lot of people love this place. But Hawaii for me and look, I know Hawaii, you know, is a fairly big place and I've only been to Waikiki and Maui there and, look, I had a good time, don't get me wrong but the way people talk about it, like it's this amazing paradise, and I just didn't find that it's certainly okay. Maybe, coming from Queensland, I'm a little bit spoiled when it comes to that. But yeah, it just didn't really. Yeah, it didn't make me excited or anything like that. I just think there's some way more paradise, magical type places in the world. But um, I wouldn't say one and done um, because I think that you have different experiences when you go back to places again and again. So I certainly won't say I wouldn't go back to Hawaii. I would, but it doesn't get me excited about going back.

Speaker 1: 15:52

No, well, I was just thinking. Actually, in a few episodes time we talk about the paradise that other wit Sundays in Australia. So if you're after that kind of paradise island, that is the episode to listen to for sure. What about a destination that you return to again and again? Is there somewhere that you go? Yeah, I'm happy to to to go back there, I just want to. We loved it so much. And is it the memories of the place that you're connected to? Is it a food that you really like? Is it the culture? What is it about that place that draws you back?

Speaker 3: 16:25

Yeah, the country I've visited the most is Thailand. I don't know whether or not that's because it's, you know, a very easy central place for me to go to. Or, as you remember, I just said, you know, watching that movie, the Beach with Leonardo DiCaprio in Thailand that I really wanted to go to Thailand. The first time I did go to Thailand it was only my second country I felt really in love with it. It's culturally different, the food's amazing, the people are friendly, the landscape is so diverse. You know the landscape is so diverse. You know, you've got the busy city, you've got, you know, amazing jungle, beautiful paradise, um, beaches and islands.

Speaker 3: 17:05

I just, I really really love it. Um, every time I go there, I try to go somewhere I haven't been before, but I've also gone to some destinations many, many times. I just love it and I don't feel like I can get enough of it. So, um, yeah, if I had to choose one place that I feel really comfortable, I've even sort of, you know, over the years, considered maybe, um, living there for an extended period of time. Um, maybe, you know, spending some time in retirement there. So, yeah, it's certainly something, a place that I feel very comfortable in.

Speaker 1: 17:37

Yeah, we have to say I really also enjoy Thailand. I've only been there a few times and I know I've not explored. I'll probably just tip of the iceberg when it comes to Thailand, because there's so many places that you can go to that outside of the places that people always think about as well. So which kind of draws us into the next question, which is kind of places that people always think about as well? So which kind of draws us into the next question, which is kind of, um, places that under the radar, lesser known places that you think people should visit? Is there any one place that you can think or this isn't really that well known, but people should know about it?

Speaker 3: 18:08

for me. I'm going to say you know, I'm from queensland, so it might be a bit biased, but the queensland outback, I think, is so underrated even I think I I underrated it too, but living through living in Queensland during COVID, where I couldn't travel overseas, I was forced and I thought, unfortunately forced to travel just in Queensland, but it led me to the Queensland Outback and so since then I've been back many, many times and I absolutely love it. I think a lot of Queenslanders don't really know about the Outback, let alone international guests, but it's incredible. You've got just the stillness, the huge skies, the vastness, the colours of the land, the people that you meet. You know they're quite characters out there in the outback, but very friendly and want to talk, the natural landscape, just the natural beauty of the place. I just feel very peaceful there and I feel like I'm having a real adventure and, yeah, I just think more people need to experience it. It's incredible.

Speaker 1: 19:24

I 100% agree, 100% agree. And it's when we, when we're overseas and people talk about Australia and they always talk about the same places. We're like you. You know what Queensland Outback, Without a doubt. We've driven the Outback a couple of times, all the way up to Far North Queensland, and I would do it in a heartbeat. I'd do it in a heartbeat tomorrow. I honestly would. It's just so different and if you're considering coming to Australia and you want something different, do that Honestly. If you live in Australia and you haven't done it, come to Queensland. If you live in Queensland and haven't done it, seriously do it. I think it will be one of the most incredible experiences that you'll ever have.

Speaker 1: 20:05

So I'm so glad you brought that one up because that is, I, 100% agree. Now, what about places that you've been to where you felt more like a local than a tourist, somewhere that you've kind of you know, kind of felt at home?

Speaker 3: 20:19

Well, I was thinking about this, like I've always lived in Brisbane and I've never lived anywhere else, and so it was a bit of a tricky one. But then I remembered last year, you know, after a bit of a couple of tough years, I really wanted to escape a little bit. So I was going to Spain for a conference anyway, and I found this little village. I was being a bit romantic, I suppose, and I wanted to find a really quaint village where I could be a local for a little while. And so I found this little village called Cacadas and I probably just butchered the way I say that Cacadas and it's in Costa Brava, in Spain, and it was just, you know, very Mediterranean, like tiny little village. And I rented this room on the top of a little restaurant in the main square there that had a little balcony, and I worked the whole time I was there.

Speaker 3: 21:18

I was there for a week and I worked, but I wasn't. I wasn't there to be a tourist, I was there to work and just escape reality, I suppose you know. And so in the morning I was there to work and just escape reality, I suppose you know. And so in the morning I went to the same place and got a cup of tea and had my breakfast at the same place, and then, you know, would go and work and I'd walk around and yeah, it just felt really it actually it's a real difference from being, I guess, a tourist or a traveller than trying to be more of a local.

Speaker 3: 21:48

Of course I was obviously still a tourist because I didn't know the place and I was only there for a week. But yeah, just going to the same places over and over again, it felt, yeah, it was really cool. And then you know, you could tell that the waitresses recognised you again because you'd been there yesterday or the day before for your breakfast and stuff. So yeah, but I don't know, maybe it's me, I just love, um, foreign places and yeah, and travelling in a different way, it was very fun oh, that's cool.

Speaker 1: 22:15

What about um, a destination that's still calling in a name? Is there somewhere that you have on, your really want to visit, but haven't made a to-do list?

Speaker 3: 22:23

so, so many. But whenever I get asked this question, it's very easy for me. I really really want to go on an african safari. I love seeing wildlife in the wild, um, and I've never been to the continent of africa, um, but um, yeah, I would just really, really love to, and I know there's lots of different places you can do African safaris. I don't know where I want to go anywhere there, I'm not sure it depends on the time of year and you know where it's best to see the animals. But, yeah, that's something that I would just love to see, hopefully not too far away, but no plans at the moment. But, yeah, really want to do an African safari.

Speaker 1: 23:07

Well, no plans at the moment, but, yeah, really want to do an african safari. Well, hopefully, um, I'll get over to africa, because I did grow up, uh, over in africa. So maybe if I get over there next year you can uh come and visit for a little bit of time, um, and and we can go and do your first game drive safari. That would be wonderful to do?

Speaker 3: 23:20

um, yeah, it is. We did that. Um safari in india. Hey, seeing the lion I'm not lions tigers and elephants and gosh. It was so amazing and that was only small oh yeah, yeah, we can.

Speaker 1: 23:35

We'll get that organized. I reckon next year and you never know we might do a ladies who travel tour in africa.

Speaker 1: 23:41

How much fun would that be um anyway, we're going to wrap up with the usual question that I ask at the end of all episodes of our podcast, doesn't matter which one it is global or UK and um and I know this is we've talked a lot actually in the ladies who travel, because we share a lot of travel tips, that it's always the last episode of the month, so we have a different topic and we've been talking a lot about lots of travel tips and sharing them in those episodes.

Speaker 3: 24:09

But what is the one travel tip that you always share? My number one tip is probably that less is more, not to try and cram so much in. And look, I was guilty of this when I first started travelling. Like you know, that three-month trip I talked about around the world. That was because I'm like I want to see everything, you know. But I've kind of learnt over the years that the more you try and see, kind of the less enjoyable it somewhat is.

Speaker 3: 24:38

So, yeah, I, and especially like when I hear people going to Europe, they're like, oh, yes, and I want to go to Paris and I want to go to Italy and I want to go to London. I'm like, oh, and I'm like these places aren't even near each other. So then you've got to spend a lot of your time like at airports or on trains and travelling and checking out and checking into hotels. That's really quite it's time consuming but it can also be a bit stressful. So the longer you can stay in one place or you know, I know you want to see as much as you can.

Speaker 3: 25:09

So now when I try and go to a place, like when I just said I spent that time in Costa Brava, that was because I was already going to Spain for a conference. So I was like well, where's somewhere in Spain that I can go and spend a week alone and relaxing? So now I kind of try to go well, I'm going here, what's around that area? Or rather than spending lots of time doing lots of travel. So yeah, I think less is more and just try and not do so much. Allow, allow a lot of time in your schedule for those natural um interactions and experiences that we talked about before that you'll often come back saying they were your favorite things that you did yeah, no, absolutely.

Speaker 1: 25:58

Um. Well, it's been great to chat with you about and for you to answer the 10 questions. Uh, for stamped, I hope that wasn't too painful no, it wasn't, it wasn't.

Speaker 3: 26:08

It was actually, uh, more fun than I thought, just kind of remembering why I travel and why, what made me start traveling in the first place yeah, absolutely, and I think often we don't, we don't think about it often enough, about what it, what it was that actually lit that spark.

Speaker 1: 26:24

Because I think for all of those, all of us, who are a little bit kind of obsessed I will say that obsessed with travel and love it so much that there's some, there's something that that created that, whether we're born with it, and then that that spark was kind of lit and it was always there, um, but I think it's so wonderful to to actually look back and be reflective and think about those things that have actually shaped our journey and what we love and what we've enjoyed Because we travel. You know, we travel a lot. We're very privileged that we travel a lot, so it's fantastic to be able to do that.

Speaker 1: 26:54

And if you're listening to this episode and you're like I love travel and I really want to chat to Tracy and share all, answer those questions and and share that with with the audience, then let me know via, speak by, come on in and and do we have 12 episodes a year of stamped? So, um, let me know if you want to come on, what you want to talk about and, uh, you know, we can have a chat and we can get something scheduled. So it would be great to to listen to. We want to. We want to hear from anybody out there. If you are a travel lover and you've, you want to share your story about your life of travel and what inspired you? Um, yeah, let us know. But, as always, it's been great to chat with you, melissa. Just want to quickly share where everybody can find you yeah, thanks, tracy.

Speaker 3: 27:35

Um, you can find me in lots of places. I have Queensland travel guide website, brisbane travel guide website, thrifty family travels website, um, and, of course, on ladies who travel with tracy and shelly um, or the ladies who travel to us. So if you like talking about travel, come and talk with a glass of wine with me and tracy one night, wherever that might be, whether that's on a beach or, like you said, maybe an african safari absolutely, absolutely.

Speaker 1: 28:03

we can't wait to meet you. So, honestly, come and join our group as well. Actually, we really talked about the Facebook group as well, melissa, because come and meet us in the Facebook group. You've listened to us talk, but come and meet us in there. Come and find out what it is we're doing. Come and say hello, come and introduce yourself, come and ask the questions. We know there's there's loads of you from all over the world that are tuning into the, the podcast. So, um, yeah, come and say hello yeah, that's uh ladies who travel um.

Speaker 3: 28:31

That's our facebook group, but I'm sure you'll have a link in the podcast as well yeah, I will.

Speaker 1: 28:36

I'll link to to that in the show notes, which will be at global travel planningcom. Forward slash episode 72 um, but great thanks so much for coming on and sharing your travel memories and experiences. As always, melissa, it's great to chat um. Should we sign off with the usual like? Well, until next week. Happy global travel planning. Cheers everybody. Bye. Thank you for joining us on this episode of the global travel planning podcast. For more details and links to everything we discussed today, check out the show notes at globaltravelplanningcom. Remember, if you enjoyed the show, please consider leaving us a review on your favorite podcast app, because your feedback helps us reach more travel enthusiasts, just like you. Anyway. That leaves me to say, as always, happy global travel planning.