00:00 - Damaris (Host)

If I'm traveling by myself, I'm not gonna just I don't know, I'm just gonna be strapped with legal stuff.

00:16 - Nachi (Host)

Welcome to another episode of I'm not yelling, I'm Dominican podcast hosted by Nachi and Damaris.

00:22 - Damaris (Host)

Hey, fam is your girl, nachi, and I'm here with Damaris, house of de los santos, mother of cats, and they're like mini dragons for me.

00:32 - Nachi (Host)

They are you treat them just like you do.

00:36 - Damaris (Host)

Yeah, house of dragons.

00:39 - Nachi (Host)

Oh my gosh House of kitty cats.

00:43 - Marie (Host)

Yes, yes.

00:45 - Nachi (Host)

And today we have hanging out with us is Marie from the Culture Cult podcast, and we're going to talk about traveling, some tips, the joys of traveling and just some memorable moments and what's our dream destination. I know a lot of us have that and we always talk about traveling. I'm one of those like, oh, I wish I could go there. I watch all those National Geographic shows and even bloggers when they talk about the different places that they've visited. I'm always, you know, excited. I'm living through, you know, vicariously living through all these people. So I'm kind of excited that Marie is here, because she is one of those types that I want to hear all about all travels. So, marie, why don't you tell our listeners a little bit about yourself and your podcast?

01:33 - Marie (Host)

Well, hey y'all, I'm Marie, I am tired. First of all, I just want to explain it's 630 in am for me in Thailand, so I'm like rough, but it's OK. Hey, am for me in thailand. So if I'm like rough, but it's okay, hey, I'm here. Um, I am a podcast producer. That's how I'm able to travel. I started my own business and I have a very chaotic and fun history travel podcast called culture cult, and my favorite color is orange.

02:00 - Damaris (Host)

That's not oh how cute is that my favorite color is like navy blue it's very classy yes it's a very type of blue. It's navy blue, like I love navy blue it is. You're talking to a high class girl right here wow it is what it is.

02:21

But to stay on topic I love talking about, I love traveling in general and I'll say for me personally, I really owe a lot of this to my father because he was someone that was super big into traveling and really supporting us in that space. And for him for someone who was orphaned like at seven and really had to pull himself up by the bootstraps, if you will, in in a country that's a developing nation like Dominican Republic he was able to join the army and they recognize something in him, him and he got a scholarship and ended up going to Germany and went to engineering school in Berlin. So for him, that was that moment in his life and that experience was pivotal and it was life-changing for him, and so I think he always was big on us in general as a family, traveling even domestically. We did road trips down to Florida, myrtle beach and all of that. It was amazing. Going up to Cape Cod I mean it was, we saw whales at 10 and 13. Nachi doesn't even remember that.

03:42

But, my mom, we went to a wedding in Cape Cod and we spent the weekend there. And so my father, he saw that they were had, like you know, some sailing boats going out to go whale watching and I remember doing that and Nachi and I did not know how to swim at that time.

04:01 - Nachi (Host)

I remember being on the boat, okay.

04:03 - Damaris (Host)

You remember? Yeah, yeah, I remember being on the boat. Okay, you remember? Yeah, yeah, I remember, and that shit was tilting. I forget what they call it when the sailboat is tilting, but it was like I felt like a 45 degrees right Like, but I wasn't scared and my father was so proud of us. He was like you girls are so good and I was like what? Honestly?

04:20

I looked at it like yeah, you're gonna, you're gonna swim and you're gonna, you're gonna jump in the water and save me. So I'm like I'm good, right, exactly so. So that was in. So those experiences, and then I remember seeing the humpback whale and that's just stuff like again, while we're yeah, while we're first gen, we definitely had a unique experience because our parents were unique and, even though my mother may not be the one to initiate it, she was one that supported my father and she was his ride or die. So she's like okay, this is what we're doing, this is what we're first gen. And from DR, it's very normal for you to go back to Dominican Republic and have a passport at an early age. So, nachi and I, I remember our first DR trip was when I was like six, five or six, so you must have been like nine, eight or nine, and we have our passports right. So going on a plane, going through, you know, customs, like that, was something that we grew up doing.

05:31 - Nachi (Host)

And quite frankly that was kind of old for, for, for like a DPR kid yeah, yeah.

05:37 - Damaris (Host)

Yeah, those kids are like going at one at six months. My parents are like, chill, babe, chill. I'm like, come on now. So for me, those experiences and what traveling in general has taught me, it's impacted my life very positively and it's made me more open-minded and I think that's because, again, that's how we were raised to be open-mindedminded, to be open to new experiences. So, while dr was what we needed a passport for going to cape cod and doing a sailboat trip to go hump built. You know, humpback whale watching like that's not a thing for girls from the bronx, right?

06:17

right, yeah like real talk, so I love that like that. But that fascinated me and made me want to explore more of the world without trepidation.

06:28 - Marie (Host)

Yeah.

06:28 - Damaris (Host)

So those are kind of like I'd love to hear from you, especially since this is what you do for a living, so to speak. Right Like you, you get to travel and you get to work remotely and you still get to explore. So kind of what put that bug in you? What did you get out of traveling to want to say like I want to do a podcast about that oh, yeah, yeah, oh okay.

06:50 - Marie (Host)

Well, I would say I had a very different experience growing up, because I grew up in Alabama and I felt like trapped. So while you got to like be allowed to see the world, I felt like I was fucking stuck and I was going crazy. So, like my first words I swear to god were probably like I want to. I always wanted to live in New York. I don't know why, but I wow New York's the shit. What am I talking about?

07:11

um so I just my entire room was always. I was like weirdly obsessed in New York. That was for me, that was the whole world, because I would live in Alabama, so that's like the next step. I didn't think right, europe, I didn't think of China. I was like no, new York, like so that was my first idea, that I was like I didn't get the fuck out of here. And then I just felt.

07:30

I just felt very like contained and stuck. Um, my mom took us on like some like cheesy tour, like you know, like one of those big ass group tours to Europe, and then, god, that's when, like everything like opened up, like I was like, for it was the country of Austria. I remember I wasn't even that excited. I was like what is this? What?

07:52 - Nachi (Host)

is that place? How old were you?

07:53 - Marie (Host)

You know, and I was in brat era, I was like 11.

07:56 - Nachi (Host)

So I have nothing.

07:58 - Damaris (Host)

I was spoiled. I was like what is Austria?

08:00 - Marie (Host)

What the?

08:01 - Damaris (Host)

fuck is that, and why would I want to be there Paris?

08:03 - Nachi (Host)

is that way, you sound like my kids. You sound like my kids.

08:08 - Marie (Host)

And so we went to Austria first, paris last, and I was like wow, okay, whatever this place is. And then I quickly shut up because I was like went to Vienna, which is like just dripping and beauty, and then also I saw like how many sex shops there were and I was like wait, what is this? I was like, and I saw people were smoking cigarettes and I was like wait. And then I opened my window to my fucking hotel there's panties, I don't know between. Like I'm from alabama, like I've been craving this like this like rated r shit so weirdly like?

08:41

the panties on that window really blew me.

08:43 - Damaris (Host)

I was like oh wow, as an 11-year-old you were like yes this is what I want in life.

08:48 - Nachi (Host)

This is it. This is it yes.

08:51 - Marie (Host)

And so like. And then we went to the Alps and I saw real mountains for the first time, like not that fucking hills, shit Like real mountains, don't disrespect the hills or like the smaller mountains.

09:03 - Damaris (Host)

okay, okay, you're right.

09:03 - Marie (Host)

Okay, you're right, but I'm talking like mountains.

09:05 - Damaris (Host)

You have to crane your neck. You have to crane your neck. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

09:09 - Marie (Host)

And then, just like the cafes and just like seeing, like just I remember there was this building that was from the Middle Ages and there was an old clock on it and I was like I don't just like little details like that. And then I fell in love with the language of German, started learning German and, just like I don't know really, austria I have to really thank Austria for that and then, you know, went out to all a bunch of other places. So, for long story short, like I felt very trapped most of my life and I always made it the mission like I'm going to travel. Well, it was to New York for a while.

09:42 - Damaris (Host)

And then I expanded and then after Austria I was like, okay, there's more to new york and then after austria, I fucking was like I'm gonna attack the world, I'm gonna not attack.

09:50 - Marie (Host)

That sounds like don't clip, that I'm gonna take. No wait, what's the word? Travel? She's very american. No, I wanted to travel, um, so, but yeah, long story. I just alabama. I have to thank being like stuck for so long. I think I'm just an extreme person.

10:10 - Damaris (Host)

So if I grew up in such a stuck place, of course, now all I do is full-time travel and like I have the ultimate freedom, like absolutely nothing containing me, um, and I have to thank alabama for that, for being so yeah, no, that I mean that's part of like what you learn from traveling, right, and I don't want and, nachi, I want to hear from you too about what do you feel traveling has taught you, or the benefits of it, because I feel like there's just it does to me. It doesn't matter the quantity of trips you take, it's you know, it's when you do it. Like what do you get out of it when you do go on these trips?

10:47 - Marie (Host)

Yeah.

10:48 - Nachi (Host)

Yeah, no, I agree, it's all about the experience I always talk about. You know you have. You know you have true travelers, and then you have people who vacation. And I'm the type that vacation I love to. I like to travel, you love it though. Yes, but I will prefer vacation over traveling any day, because and and I like a combination of both, like it could be a combination of both- it doesn't have to be all vacation well, how do you delineate matchy? What's vacation?

11:20

yeah, well, okay, traveling for you traveling to me okay, traveling to me, let's say you're going to another country, you're you're experiencing the different places that is known for that particular area. So you're doing a lot of these excursions that specific to that particular area and you know that could be very draining. I mean you're up early in the morning it's like an all day thing.

11:45

So if you don't factor in some vacation time, as I call it, you know where you can just relax and I just want to relax and go try out some restaurants and, you know, just experience the people in that area, versus having to do activities all day long To prove that you're there.

12:10

Okay, Right, right Like, oh, I visited this and I visited that, and you know, and there's some packages that are built that way, right, right, where it's just like, oh, you could take a tour, an eight-day tour of Italy, and every day is packed with something, and it sounds great if and it also sounds exhausting, very exhausting.

12:34 - Damaris (Host)

So if I'm taking off, from work.

12:36 - Nachi (Host)

If I'm taking off from work, it's one thing you know, yeah, do you feel like?

12:41 - Damaris (Host)

Well, so okay, I want to ask you then do you feel like our trip to Greece was that traveling or was that vacation for you?

12:47 - Nachi (Host)

I think it was both.

12:48 - Damaris (Host)

Because I felt like it was a good balance.

12:50 - Nachi (Host)

Yes, that was a great balance, because we were able to see certain historical places Right but at the same time.

13:00 - Damaris (Host)

I mean we were looking at the IGNC every morning, morning just eating some bread and having a good coffee on the cliffs of santorini, loving it, loving it.

13:11 - Nachi (Host)

But that was because we went to two separate places, right, so we went to athens and that's where we did a lot of our um tours and right, right, right, you know. But when we went to santorini it was oh, we're just relaxing we're eating.

13:24 - Damaris (Host)

We're yes we're just having. We're living our best lives living our best well, I actually have like a hot take.

13:30 - Marie (Host)

so I am like a full-time traveler and like I am not one of those people that's like, yeah, I went seven countries in two fucking days. Like I'm not like that, I'm actually a full-time vacationer, I. So I'm in thailand right now and I like literally haven't left this Island in two months. Okay, I left the Island for two days and I was like I want to go back to the Island. I want to go back to my Island. Like I it's like I have this weird duality of like I really really, really love my routine and I really really love chilling. And when you're traveling full time, I, if I missed the temple, if I miss the temple, if I miss the fucking cooking class, I'm okay with it. But I think someone else is going to be like are you shitting me? You went to this place and you didn't do this thing. When I went to Lisbon, I didn't leave Lisbon. I was in Lisbon for two months partying. I'm sorry.

14:15 - Damaris (Host)

I'm not cultural. You know what it is. There's pressure when, since you're doing this full time, yeah, you get to be present, veg, get a feel for the place, etc. The problem comes with our culture in america, where we have five days for vacation or seven days, and so what? So when you go to a place like greece, you're like I don't want to waste any time, I want to make sure that I hit the big places. I can't go all the way, fly seven, eight hours to literally just be at the hotel and at the beach the entire time and not get to look at. That's me right. That's in my head. I'm like oh my God, I can't so either. I'm going there multiple times because I also don't want to exhaust myself, I want to enjoy. So it's striking a balance and I definitely I think I'm pretty good about that where I won't overextend myself. I mean for crying out loud like my day to day, I don't do more than three things a day.

15:21 - Marie (Host)

So when you?

15:21 - Damaris (Host)

people with kids, y'all are wild to me. You're like oh, I took little Jimmy to five birthday parties a day and I had people with kids. Y'all are wild to me. You're like oh, I took little jimmy two five birthday parties a day and I had to pick him up from soccer.

15:29 - Nachi (Host)

You have to multitask.

15:31 - Damaris (Host)

Yeah, you have to multitask I, my body, can't do more than three things a day.

15:35

And I'm talking about two little things, one big thing don't come down to three big things like this is why I'm gonna live a long life and, like mommy says, I'm never gonna die. Like so, so that, like so, when I go on vacation, I still have to do like similar things of just like, yes, I try to. I try to hit as many things as I want to that I feel like I should because I'm like okay, I've been there. I feel good saying that I'm in Paris. I went to the Louvre.

16:06

Now, the second time I went to Paris, I didn't go to the Louvre because, I was like I've been there, done that, so I'm on, alisa, okay, yeah, david, okay, but I had to go back, yeah, and.

16:17 - Nachi (Host)

I think when you over, yeah, I think when you overpack to your, your traveling it for me and, as you know, I don't remember everything, like I don't remember the whale, right, you know, like you can't give me too much, it was specifically to go humpback whale watch. Yeah, yeah I don't remember, I mean we had, I mean we were doing a lot during that weekend.

16:38 - Damaris (Host)

We actually were not, it was just the wedding, and then we walked around Cape Town.

16:42 - Nachi (Host)

We were doing a lot. We were doing a lot.

16:44 - Damaris (Host)

Actually your parents were doing a lot, you were just a spectator, we were doing a lot.

16:50 - Nachi (Host)

We were doing a lot, okay, sure.

16:51 - Marie (Host)

Sure, she said one whale, that's enough.

16:56 - Damaris (Host)

That's right. She's like I can't put that in my brain, so we're not doing too many things.

17:06 - Marie (Host)

I'm not trying to remember all this. Yeah, yeah.

17:08 - Damaris (Host)

Yes, true, I lucked out because my corporate job it was I actually had I started off with four weeks of vacation. They had a crazy package and then they, they changed it, but I was grandfathered in and because I, because I didn't use it all I would, I got to roll over an extra week and then the longer I was there, I got an extra week. So by the time I left I had like six weeks of vacation every year.

17:33 - Nachi (Host)

And guess who?

17:34 - Damaris (Host)

used it all up. Yeah, this, this, this chick over here. So that good, I, yeah. I mean one year I was in the office for the month of December for one week and I because I tricked my boss, like I told him I was like, oh, I need the first two weeks to go. I'm going on a safari, so I'm gonna be gone for the first two weeks of December. Then, like a month later, I was like, oh, I'm gonna be on vacation, I'm gonna go visit family for Christmas week. He forgot about my two weeks in Africa and so so when December came, I was like, look, the projects are okay. Look, nothing's gonna go off the rails. I promise you bye, yeah it is a strategy like really asking.

18:16

It would be like emails that say I'm taking this time off. Let me know if that's going to be a problem yeah, because I'm like I'm not fucking asking you. I'm not like I would be nice, I'm gonna talk to you, nice, but I don't really feel like I should ask you for permission, then my work is fine anyway.

18:34

Yeah, but this is all related to why people, I feel like, cram so much stuff, especially from this, from the states. Europeans they have like the yeah, they have the month of august off, so they get time to just chill and bed you can go to spain for the weekend like america.

18:50

You go somewhere for the weekend, you're still in your state, right, right, right you're like just a town next door but I will say, and and I don't want people to feel, especially as they listen to this, that the only way to enjoy traveling and be able to get out of your comfort zone because I do feel like traveling helps people come out of their comfort zone. It did for me, it still does for me. I will say that the United States is pretty awesome in that there's so much this, the topography is so different throughout this country that you could feel like you're in another world. A hundred percent internet traveling internationally do it domestically.

19:38

Honestly, the when I think about my trip to china, by and large, the uh, the tourists that were on the, the guides that we were, the guided tours that we were doing, or the visiting the sites, 90 of the people there were chinese. So they, they have a burgeoning middle class and so they travel throughout their country because, again, it's a ginormous country. So for them, they're taking vacations, visiting other places, other places throughout the country of China. So that's for people listening, because I know not everyone has the means to do this, and so I've been blessed and with the, with the time and the money to be able to do it. So check out other places in America. Be careful. If you're black, you know, but still.

20:30 - Marie (Host)

No, the nature in America is in fucking credible and even just like just get outside, go fucking camping, camping. And if you're like I don't like camping, you can glamp. Just get outside fucking camping camping if you're like I don't like camping.

20:40 - Damaris (Host)

You can glamp, just get outside, get out of your. Oh, you're cute. Yeah, I'm not camping, but okay, let me tell you something so I'll go to a cabin.

20:46 - Nachi (Host)

I'll stay in a cabin.

20:47 - Damaris (Host)

Yeah, I'll do something, just get out you know what my husband says, because I always say like I don't like to do camping because I don't want to sleep on, you know, on the ground of rocks and stuff, and he's like who does that when camping? I was like I don't know, but that's what I believe, see, I actually love the ground see, okay, yeah, okay. That that's how you stay grounded, marie. That's how you stay grounded.

21:09 - Nachi (Host)

I mean, isn't that how they camp, right?

21:13 - Damaris (Host)

literally right, but I do have when I think about traveling. So I've been to multiple countries and I've had fantastic experiences, but there are things that I feel you should always be considering when traveling, like the best tips, and the number one thing I'd say, especially for Americans, is get global entry.

21:40

Now the reason I say to get global entry. I got this from my husband when we were dating. We were just like boyfriend, girlfriend, and it was uh, I got it for myself and I was just like bruh if we're going to be traveling, we cannot be waiting on the customs line. And, plus, the beautiful thing about global entry is TSA pre-check. So I got him that for a gift. So the reason I say get global entry is because it includes TSA pre-check and it's only $15 more than TSA pre check it's, and so it's just worth it, because what you do is that when you come back to the States, you don't have to stand in line for customs. You literally go to a kiosk, you run your little fingerprints in your passport and that's it. There's nothing else. So I highly recommend that, especially if you even if you don't travel internationally, because you can use the TSA pre-check domestically Always make copies of your credit cards that you're going to take with you and your passport, that's a good one, and the passport for sure, the passport.

22:47

Because if you ever need to go to embassy because your passport was stolen, you're not going to remember your passport number, so you need that and then your credit cards again. If it gets stolen or you lose it, you can call the number immediately, the 1-800 number that's just something to do. Uh, bring enough cash with you, right? Like I'll tell you this, you don't bring cash never.

23:11 - Marie (Host)

I like I'm low right now. I got an atm so.

23:14 - Damaris (Host)

So this is something because, marie, you, you're of a younger generation, so this is before. Nachi and I are analog slash digital. So we were lucky that generation of like no, we knew what it was like when shit was analog and now it's like oh no, we enjoy the digital and we understand how to use it. But having cash because ATMs back in the day internationally was unreliable, like using your card just wasn't something that you always wanted to rely on solely. So I always bring cash to exchange and also I take money out the ATM at the country because usually you'll get a better exchange rate.

23:52

With that being said, I remember going to Japan. I went with two friends and we were going going to japan. I went with two friends and we were going. The other thing if you know people that are living abroad temporarily and they're good friends with you and they you don't mind pop a squat on their couch because that is free lodging right there yeah so this friend of mine yeah, he, you know, he had a corporate apartment, he was in japan I was like, oh, I'm going bet.

24:20

I was like okay, so let me know what's a good week. He's like okay. And then these two other friends like, oh, can I join? I'm like I will ask him if he's okay with that. So one of the girls I didn't I knew her, but I didn't know her well enough like, oh, we've never been on trips before. You'll learn people when you go on trips.

24:40 - Nachi (Host)

You really get to know people. Yes, when you get, I will say that and I already said, we're going to japan.

24:47 - Damaris (Host)

Japan is not a cheap place. I'm starting off with. This is like 15, 16 years ago. I'm starting off with 800 cash because I intend to take out more when I'm there.

24:59 - Marie (Host)

Okay, baller. I intend to take out more.

25:03 - Nachi (Host)

No, because I was like you got a lot of money there.

25:05 - Damaris (Host)

Well, remember, I'm not paying for lodging, right? So I'm like, okay, that's the whole, you don't pay for lodging. I'm like, okay, no, a girl's gonna enjoy her time in Japan, and so I'm starting out with $800. But I'm like, oh, I'll probably take out, I'm sure I'll use more. This other girl, she bought like $400 and she was like, no, that's my money for the trip. But I was just like wait how long?

25:27

y'all were there, for she and I were there longer than the other person, so we were there for like nine or ten days and she only brought $400, yeah, and that's all she was gonna spend, and then she also didn't like the food, so I'm just like okay, what does she expect to eat in Japan?

25:44 - Nachi (Host)

This is what I'm saying.

25:46 - Damaris (Host)

So I need you to, when you go on these trips to another country, recalibrate your expectations, understand what the cuisine is going to be, get your mind out of America and be prepared. She ended up eating a lot of McDonald's and again like the McDonald's is going to be different, yeah, and she was just upset, like she was like I can't eat nothing here, nothing. And I was just flabbergasted. I'm like, okay, you're wild. Needless to say that she and I did not keep a friendship afterwards, and also while on the trip, I was doing my own thing. I'm the type of traveler that's like I'll tell you. Here's my itinerary. If you want to join me on these things, great. If not, this is what I'm doing.

26:23

I'm not afraid to do things on my own. I think I was like because I already was going to go without you broads you know but you were like oh, let me go. I'm like cool, I'm doing this. So I say all that like just be, bring some cash with you, and also, just if you're going, to ditch someone yeah look, I didn't ditch her, I just she ditched herself by not preparing for this trip.

26:49

Also, when I went on a safari to tanzania, I wasn't sure what to expect with the food, so guess who? Guess what I did? I packed a bunch of cliff bars, as yeah that was, that's my tip yeah, because I'm not gonna be hangry on my trip, right, right yeah, yeah, cliff bars, but also grits for us southerners.

27:11 - Marie (Host)

Go ahead and pack yourself some fucking grits and oatmeal, but like I do that, so like all last year that's, that was my breakfast. I had like six months worth of grits and I was handing my and it was a good um. I was letting other people try it because they've never had grits before and I was like get yourself some butter and let's do

27:28

it and I feel like that was a good way to save money on, even like lunch right, because you're not buying food every single. Yeah, yeah, yeah, that's true, it's a grits podcast right now if you because it's savory and sweet, and get the clip bar, clip bar, and so the airport you're not having by that shitty food.

27:46 - Damaris (Host)

So that's a tip, that's a good one, like pack yeah pack stuff um but know who you're gonna travel with I know what about those.

27:55 - Nachi (Host)

What about those solo travelers? Like what tips? Would you give them because I know oh I, I feel like Damaris, you've traveled with other people, but you really, I feel like you've always had your own path. Like you're never concerned about what everybody else is doing.

28:12 - Marie (Host)

You're like.

28:12 - Nachi (Host)

I'm traveling here. This is what I'm. If you guys want to join, join, but it's not going to bother me if you don't.

28:18 - Damaris (Host)

Right, or that we're doing this. Yeah, I was like I'm still going to Kyoto. Like when I went to Japan, I was like ladies, ok, I'm going to spend five days in Tokyo, but three days in Kyoto If you want to join me, great, this is where I'm staying and it's just like the one girl didn't because she's like no, no, of course not four hundred dollars, right, and that's why I'm eating donald's every day to japan.

28:44

I'm like, okay, all right, right, so, but I'll say, for solo travelers, uh, everything that we've talked about definitely applies. But again, and that she's right, even though I traveled with other people, I always shared my itinerary with my immediate family. Y'all knew where the fuck I was, how to how to find me, what hotels, what everything.

29:05

If I'm doing a tour, I got because this is me. I'm not gonna be caught up. I'm not gonna be part of a statistic or in a movie, like I'm not. That's not gonna happen, like so share your itinerary with your loved ones.

29:17 - Marie (Host)

That's a good, my family literally text me are you still in Thailand? See, you're wild, you're wild, marie, hey, hey, hey if you're one of those people that are like I just can't be bothered, you can have find your friends, and my mom knows exactly where I am on find my friends okay, okay, see, that's the new way to do it find my friends with that there's an app. Some girl showed me where you can like as you're taking pictures.

29:44

It's putting it in this like world map and you can see your travels as you are going and people can follow your travels. That's exactly where you are and obviously it's only for people you want to invite in. I have to find that app. Um, but also this is an app for solo travelers. So I used to hate solo traveling. I'm not gonna lie. I really really, really hated it because I was traveling. I was traveling too fast, so I didn't have enough time to make friends and I'm a friendly fucking person, but if you only have like a week in the philippines, most.

30:12

Yeah, you're not trying to get settled and and then someone else is only there for a week and it's hostels. And so this time this year I'm traveling slow, I'm making groups of friends, I'm able to date, I'm able to do all this cool shit that you get to do like we're gonna see you on 90 day, fiance, one day actually there's someone fucking here in my co-living who's applied for that, so you're gonna see him.

30:33 - Nachi (Host)

Really, oh my gosh no girl, you're gonna see me on love is blind first okay, oh wow, and I love love is blind.

30:42 - Damaris (Host)

So yeah, I love love is blind. Um, it's so trash.

30:46 - Marie (Host)

It's so perfect, um, but no. So here's my tips for solo travelers. So there's an app called time left. You can find it on instagram. They've actually a pretty cool instagram and this is it for anyone who is going around the world and they're like I'm only in Munich for a week. I still want to make friends. Every Wednesday in any city, all these cities in the world, you could tell you have dinner with 10 random strangers from all over the world and they pay me my horoscopes, but I lied about my horoscopes.

31:16

Oh my god, oh, I love that. So I in um portugal. I went to time left every week. I met people from everywhere, everywhere, and actually I actually found someone, actually started dating someone from the app and it's not a dating app, but you can like you just right.

31:32

But there were like um, there are people from like belarus. I've never even knew what belarus was. That's a country, y'all. I met someone from bel Belarus, and I met someone from so many Brazilians and blah, blah, blah. And it's a different way to meet people and understand someone's culture, because you're having dinner with them. So it's like do they drink?

31:46 - Damaris (Host)

Are they?

31:47 - Marie (Host)

loud talkers Are they? Do they speak?

31:49 - Damaris (Host)

English. No, it's true, but you're not going to get online these little things and you get to make friends and afterwards after and afterwards.

31:55 - Marie (Host)

After the dinner, let's say your dinner kind of sucked and you're like that wasn't for me. Everyone's dinner around the city meets up at a bar or club after.

32:05 - Damaris (Host)

And that's where you talk and meet a whole group of people.

32:06 - Marie (Host)

Oh, that is so cool, oh my gosh, and it's called Time Left and I highly recommend it. We'll definitely put that in the notes, and you can do it in New York, you can do it in America.

32:13 - Nachi (Host)

There's. I was going to say I've heard of, yeah, Okay.

32:17 - Marie (Host)

You can do it in America actually. So if you just moved to a city or you just want to get out of the house, yeah, time left. Another tip I have. This is such a good tip, I'm going to put you all on one Another tip wherever you are in the world, I want you to type in Korean spas, all day Korean spas, jim Jillebong, and this is how you can travel and save on hotels. So when I first moved to LA, I didn't want to pay for like a $70 a night hotel room. I paid $24 to go stay at the 24-7 sauna where you have the sauna, which is the sauna. You know what a sauna is.

32:52

But then there's the Jim Jillebong, which is the co-ed space where you have these huts with different minerals and all different temperatures. There's a pool.

33:02 - Damaris (Host)

So look at that, you're detoxing at the same time you sleep. You get to stay overnight.

33:08 - Marie (Host)

Sleeping areas. The floors are heated. You are going to sleep on the floor, but it's heated and it's so nice and you're so relaxed. You're so relaxed.

33:17

They give you a toothbrush, they give you brushes to brush your hair, you get a locker, there's wi-fi. If you want to work, the one in la has a rooftop, there's restaurants in there and you and it's 24 hours so I would pay and there's a gym, and so I've done that in the philippines. I stayed in manila multiple times and just lived at the fucking uh jim jillabong. So you need to.

33:38 - Damaris (Host)

That might be a little too, intense for me, but yes, I think if you, if you're an expensive city, would you?

33:45 - Marie (Host)

yeah, I was gonna say that, yeah, yeah that's smart and you just want to.

33:48 - Damaris (Host)

You're gonna be there for a couple nights and you don't have a lot of money to spend. I think that's a dope.

33:52 - Marie (Host)

That's a dope oh my god, it's like you get to be relaxed. There was an aquarium, one in the vanilla one. Yeah, like, so it's just that's. My other tip is if you're like, if you're maybe a business traveler, no, you're in your business or paying for your hotel, but if you're traveling yeah yeah if your company doesn't pay for your, you need to quit, you need to quit.

34:15 - Nachi (Host)

You need to fucking go. No, no, that's good, I will also say is get a hidden wallet.

34:23 - Damaris (Host)

So that's good there there's a, there's tons of like little hidden wallets that you can get. You always just want something that's on you. Because and I think it's funny, marie, because your approach is, you know, your your tips have been very more focused on like enjoying your time or finding like ways to save, and I've been more about save your life. You know, watch out for these, for these robbers, you know, because my next tip is going to be pack a Swiss army knife in your checked luggage.

34:52 - Marie (Host)

So can you do that?

34:55 - Nachi (Host)

Checked luggage. It's small enough yeah.

34:56 - Damaris (Host)

Yeah. So here's the thing I when, when I was meeting up with my friends to go to Tanzania Okay, so go go way back in time like about 15 years ago so, yeah, I think so my business partner at the time she's I had just met her and we were just business partners, but we got along really good as friends and she and her husband, they're awesome people. They're like close friends of mine still to this day. I love them. But she was like hey, you know we're going to go to, uh, egypt and Tanzania at the end of the year. Do you want to join us on this trip? I was like okay.

35:38

And I love them because they never made me feel like a third wheel. They were never that couple. They were yes and I, but I didn't know. I took a gamble I had already the year before I went to Japan with some someone that I thought I knew right, but look at me a year later. I don't learn my lesson anyway so so I'm just like yeah, let's, let's.

35:56

I was like sure, and because of the timing, they were doing the Egypt trip afterwards and it's funny because I really wanted to go to Egypt before Tanzania, but they were doing that over the holidays and I spent the holidays with my family. So I said, sure, I'll do Tanzania, I want to do a, you know, a safari. And again, god blessed me with the means to do it and I was like like yeah, let's. And so they, they did say, well, we were thinking of doing like the camping style safari, and I said, well, that's where I draw the line. I don't do that. I said I need lodging. I said if you want me to go, I need lodging. I can't do. This idea of a piece of nylon is the only thing separating me from a lion Like that's just not going to work.

36:43

Right Like this is not no.

36:45

So they acquiesced, they were fantastic and we and the lodging was great, like we did it with a touring company and we had a private tour, so it was just the three of us in the SUV and it was an amazing experience.

37:00

But I bring that up because the first night they were coming from Kenya, like they were coming from a different part. Yeah, they were coming from Kenya and I was coming straight from JFK, so I'm flying by myself, which meant that the first night I had to be on my own, and then the um, our guys would were going to connect us and bring us together the following morning and again, I'm a girl from New York city. So I said, okay, bet, I'm going to pack this little Swiss army knife because I'm going to have it under my pillow when I get to my room, right. And so when my driver came to pick me up at the airport, in my head I was like, well, where did he get that card sign? He could have, like, really hijacked this car sign from my real driver to try to kidnap me.

37:47 - Marie (Host)

This is crazy. No, we are different.

37:48 - Damaris (Host)

So I said okay. I said let me ask him if he knows what hotel that's going to be. My I was like, hey, oh, so do you remember the hotel we're going to? I pretended like I didn't know.

37:58 - Marie (Host)

Right right.

37:59 - Damaris (Host)

Is he going to really have time to ask the driver after he attacked my driver right what hotel they were going to take me to. So I was just like I'm going to test them and he said it. And I said, okay, pass one. So we get to the car. We get to the car. His name was like Saeed or something like that. I sent him my sister, a text. You know Tanzania, all the way to Virginia. I'm like his name is Saeed. I got in this kind of truck vehicle. I was fine. I got to my room, I locked all the windows. I put a chair under my doorknob because again, yeah, because I don't know I'm in this country by myself and I was just like I don't know. I've never been in a place so far from home.

38:43 - Marie (Host)

Okay, okay.

38:44 - Damaris (Host)

You know, this is I'm by myself and I'm like I'm a single woman, and they know this is I'm by myself and I'm like I'm a single woman, and they know this. I've come in, they saw me, so right, right. So I was just like, but I'm not going down without a fight. This is how I operate. So that's where I had my swiss army knife and it was under my pillow. That was fine. The next day I was like hi, and then my friends came the next time I want to pause this real quick because I mean this is all.

39:05 - Marie (Host)

These are great things, but travel I don't know. It's like not that scary like people are.

39:11 - Damaris (Host)

So good, no, no, I know and I'm sorry but we come.

39:14 - Marie (Host)

America is sketchy as fuck, like sketchy as fuck. So it's like, yeah, if this is why I'm like this people travel and they they're scared of the world, but they don't realize the world they already live in is way scary yes, like I promise you there's not even like.

39:29

I'm in thailand right now. Oh my god, this place is a haven on this planet. There's literally no homeless people, weed shops, everywhere. You can be gay, not just gay. You can be a drag queen walking down the street any time of the day, any time of day you can. As a woman, I can wear this and be at any time of night. I've never been cackled. I've never been uncomfortable, like yeah, thailand's incredible, and I feel like in america, america is actually so dangerous.

39:53

Like the american cities and even the countryside, the little boondock well, this is what I'm saying.

39:59 - Damaris (Host)

Like this is because this is where we come from, new york city. Everything is a scam, like I grew up at a time where this is you don't, you don't go out with a lack of awareness, and that's why I just don't. And I still am like that.

40:13 - Marie (Host)

But it doesn't bother me. You can let your guard down a bit though in the travel. No, no, Not for me.

40:18 - Nachi (Host)

You still have to be aware. Yeah, whatever makes you feel aware.

40:21 - Damaris (Host)

It's just a matter of being aware. It's just like. Here's the thing.

40:31 - Nachi (Host)

I'm like me, down without a fight, and that's how it was, but it wasn't.

40:32 - Damaris (Host)

You can still enjoy yourself. It wasn't to bring the vibe down. I love my time in tanzania, I love my time on safari, but I'm if I'm traveling by myself, I'm not gonna just I don't know, I'm just gonna be strapped with legal stuff. So I want to hear around like what's been your most profound experience while traveling?

40:53 - Marie (Host)

that's like when I saw that question, I was like, oh no, that's a hard one. Like I think two things. So like the first one was when I first went camping for the first time and I drove across america to california and I left al and I left Alabama, I fucking left Alabama and with my best friends, and we were seeing the desert for the first time and just like being just, it was just the ultimate freedom. I had nowhere to be in the world, no job, no one. I had no responsibilities at all. Like just, we were the purpose every day was like camping in desert and just to see the world and just like, oh, I don't know, like that was. That was a profound experience for me. Like I'm life changing and so, yeah, the West coast is incredible, but I feel like right now, I feel like what's? What's happening to me right now?

41:45

My first year of travel, I didn't love it, I'm not gonna lie, hot take.

41:49

I was like I don't know if this digital nomad thing is for me. Like I was like I'm kind of like I'm unhealthy because I was like eating croissants every day and then fucking, and then, like I just was, I was traveling to see my friends but I wasn't making friends. So I was traveling to see that friend in Japan or see that friend in Amsterdam who had their own lives and their own friends and their own boyfriends and I was just stopping into their life and just seeing their bubble and it only made me miss California 200 times more in my community and I was like this is I just feel like an actual traveler. And then this year I was like let's do it differently. You're going to spend as long as the visa allows and so, um, you know, in Europe. I was in Lisbon for two months and I made a big, big, big group of friends on there and we were just going I shit you not six days out of the seven days out, like not just to the bar, like out Partying.

42:44

There was always something to do Partying, yeah, yeah and so, like I feel like I relived, like people say, college days, I would say my california days, when I partied there. So just like and just able to experience that was my first time. I was like, wow, I can have a big group of friends and I can actually date someone like intimately and not just like go on like a date with random people. And I know this is not as spicy and interesting as like what this crazy experience I've had, but like I, this is my life, like I travel full-time and I'm realizing, if I go slow, like being here in thailand, and like I just oh, the thai people you can appreciate it more, yeah I love him.

43:21

It's just I can actually like be in the country and like and just what is, what is like? What do these thai people do every day? You know?

43:29 - Damaris (Host)

like.

43:29 - Marie (Host)

I'm getting to see, I'm having Thai. I'm a regular at a Thai place.

43:32 - Damaris (Host)

You know um so right, like they know you. Yeah, yeah, it's community. Yes, I'm at the market.

43:38 - Marie (Host)

I go to the same fucking marketplace every day and I'm like, and he knows what I fucking want, like do you know how refreshing that is from the first year where I've truly just felt like a traveler? And I was like I was. I thought if I saw one more cathedral I was gonna scream. I was like I can't, I see one more museum, I'm gonna scream. Because it didn't feel like I was connecting with the place. I felt like I was booking tickets, checking in like, checking out, like it wasn't attractive.

44:03 - Damaris (Host)

So you were going through the motions yeah, yeah.

44:06 - Marie (Host)

So my first trip was where it was like ultimate freedom, um, like yeah thailand's a beautiful place.

44:12 - Damaris (Host)

I went there for my honeymoon I love it yeah like you said, the people are really nice. And again I we went to three different areas and they're so different right like bangkok is that city, young, vibrant city. And then chiang mai. It was just like you know, I'm like in a rainforest, so just like a cool mountainous area, and and I went to elephant sanctuary there, it was just like so beautiful. It was like yeah, no, it's a beautiful thing. Do not, do not write elephants, guys, you do not write them.

44:47 - Marie (Host)

Yeah, go to a sanctuary. Yes, yes, go to a sanctuary.

44:49 - Damaris (Host)

Yes, yes, Well, my husband bathed them. I was like I'm not getting it.

44:52 - Marie (Host)

I bathed them. I was high level with one.

44:56 - Damaris (Host)

No, I was. I was close Like I pet one. I fed them, but then they were like, oh, you can go in the water and help bathe them. And I was no, it's a beautiful thing and if I want to share real quick, because I know we, tanzania is the best trip I've ever been on, hands down, and it is because, in particular, because of this profound experience and for me it took place when we were one of our days in the Serengeti and which, you know, it's the three of us we're traveling with our guide and um, it's being in that kind of environment, that nature, where you, the human, is in the tin can and the animals are living their lives the way they're supposed to. It's, it's very humbling and that was a point.

46:05

I never felt closer to god than at that moment, one of the moments watching some monkeys and some elephants just surround me, and it took me like I got emotional. I remember like I was tearing up in the back and my friends, they didn't know what was happening. I was like, oh my God, because I was so grateful that I was able to experience something like this that again, many people with my background just would never, ever or could ever say they've been in a safari close to these wild animals. And it's so beautiful, it's just untouched by man, that it was just only something like the creator could do something like this. So that's why I said I've never felt closer, and so that was a profound trip for me.

46:49

And through that trip, we went to the I think it's called Olduvai or Olduvai Gorge, and that's where it's like when they call it the cradle of mankind, which is where one of the first hominids fossils were found. Again, I was there in this crater looking at it and I was just like, wow, you know, and, and these are UNESCO sites like these are World Heritage sites. And and again, the next day we go to this place called Gorongoro Crater. It's basically a volcano that has collapsed three million years ago and you have all these animals that now are just like. It's teeming with wildlife, and our lodging was on the side of the crater and I'm looking at this while I'm sipping like a glass of wine.

47:39 - Nachi (Host)

That's beautiful.

47:40 - Damaris (Host)

Yes, and I said to myself I'm like, no, like when I can, when I'm balling out, I'm going to bring my niece and nephew here Also, when they're old enough to appreciate it, because that trip wasn't cheap but it was. It was the best trip, and so for me, that was why I made it so profound. It was yeah. And then we ended with Zanzibar three days like the beach. So now she like now she said yeah, no, no, no. So we did all that walking. We even went to Kilimanjaro, did a day hike. I was like deuces to that, but I did it. It was great. I was hurting, yeah, yeah, yeah, but you got to relax for three days.

48:19

And then we went to Zanzibar and I was like yes, see, that's a perfect balance. I love that.

48:24

No, I'm telling you that trip was just it was epic and it was just, it was the best thing, like spiritually too. So I love that, yeah, no. And then we, we got charged by a leopard. I almost got warned by a hippo. No, I'm telling you it was the best trip. Oh yeah, and I saw lions mating. I was like, ooh, I'm like this is very pornographic. I was like I don't know if I should be here watching this. Yeah, no, I did. But I was like, oh, he's like biting down on her neck.

49:00 - Marie (Host)

I was like no, very aggressive, but I was like, I'm not making love.

49:04 - Damaris (Host)

They're very aggressive, but I was like I'm not mad. You're making love. No, no, no, he was like girl. Stay right here.

49:11 - Marie (Host)

Where are?

49:11 - Damaris (Host)

you going.

49:12 - Nachi (Host)

Where are you?

49:13 - Marie (Host)

going. And then there's Damaris.

49:15 - Damaris (Host)

Yeah, and I'm taking pictures and I'm filming. I'm like, oh my God, how is Nat Geo up in this bitch? It was fantastic, oh my gosh. Yeah. So lastly, because feel every we should all answer this if you could go anywhere, where would it? Be and why hands down brazil because, okay, after, it's the highest population of black people outside of africa. And before I go any place, I'm not setting foot in South America before I go to Brazil first that's it, I don't care about.

49:51

Patagonia. I don't care about Argentina. No, I'm going to Brazil first. Yes, I'm going to do. Our parents went to Carnival.

50:02

This is the scam that my parents would do. They would run this scam with us as kids and they would set up these trips for just them two, but not say that it's just for them too. They're like oh, we're going to brazil. So I would ask like, oh, we're going to. They're like no, you guys have school. I was like okay, I mean, I'm young and dumb. I was like sure, that makes sense. I was like that tracks, okay, I guess school.

50:29 - Nachi (Host)

Yeah, well I'm too upset parents.

50:32 - Damaris (Host)

They, they live their best lives, too, without us. That's why, as adults and parents, you guys need to go on your own vacations too. It's okay, we are not scarred. We are not scarred. We stayed with our aunts, we stayed with our cousins, and we were taken care of and it inspires you.

50:48 - Nachi (Host)

You're like I want to do that yeah, I want to make that money they came back.

50:52 - Damaris (Host)

Yet no, they came back and it was they. They loved it, they loved it.

50:56 - Nachi (Host)

That was one of the places they loved yeah, but that whole idea of affordability, especially when you have kids, I think that's what stops a lot of people from traveling if they have children because you think about you guys like oh, I have my whole family that I gotta pay for.

51:09

But if you're thinking about about it and like, oh, this is just me and my partner, you know just me, you know me and a friend, then yeah, I think that's even more attainable than trying to take the whole family, because yeah, I did meet this woman, though like she's traveling with four kids two teenagers and two tweens and is she homeschooling them too?

51:33

because I've seen I I think I love to follow people who travel. I like that and I know there's like a couple people that I follow their family and that's part of their homeschooling is that they travel with their children and teach them the different culture and and I just think that's just so beautiful. I'm like, oh, that's wonderful, I love that. I wish I could do that. Not really Like I don't want to.

52:03 - Marie (Host)

No, brazil, that's a good, that's a good one. Um, um, okay, I I'm going to cheat. Um, um, okay, I I'm gonna cheat. Let's not say just one. What do I get? Okay, because I have a life goal. I have a life goal that I want to hit. And then, um, okay, so I'm just I'm gonna break these three down. There's just three, it's just three that I'm on my bucket list.

52:21 - Damaris (Host)

I mean go ahead, no, no, this is quick.

52:25 - Marie (Host)

It's quick fire, it's rapid fire. Okay, I want to do a spa and food tour of Japan, taiwan and Korea. That's one very expensive trip.

52:34 - Nachi (Host)

Yeah, I like that.

52:35 - Marie (Host)

I'm doing South Africa. I'm going on my birthday. I want to go on my birthday because there's a whale festival on Labor Day and you watch whales jump from a cliff Like you're no they don't jump from a cliff like you're.

52:48 - Damaris (Host)

No, they don't jump from a cliff. You watch, I'm like wait a minute, they're now land animals. What are we doing here, marie marie? What's going on? Talk to us. Are you crying out for help? She's like they jump from the cliff, what it's too early in the morning. We know she hasn't had enough coffee.

53:09 - Marie (Host)

Guys, it's 6 30 in the morning yes, um, but no, you're on the cliff and you watch whales jump. You don't jump, though no one's jumping. Oh my god, sorry. Yes, that one's very nice, um, and then I want. I want to go camping and trekking in Alaska for a month.

53:31 - Damaris (Host)

Okay, I do want to see the Northern Lights, kind of thing.

53:35 - Marie (Host)

I want to do Alaska.

53:36 - Damaris (Host)

Yeah.

53:37 - Marie (Host)

And then my life goal. My big, big, big goal is I want to walk across a continent.

53:43 - Nachi (Host)

Oh wow, oh okay.

53:48 - Damaris (Host)

I'll pray for you.

53:48 - Marie (Host)

Yes, I want you to do that too.

53:51 - Damaris (Host)

No, like when we went to Kilimanjaro, you can do. I think in six days you can do the hike and go all the way to the top, the highest summit. And because we were just doing it a day, it was a day hike we just went to the first summit and it's it's three miles up and down, so six miles that I hiked. I don't hike, my legs were killing me anyway. So my friends were like, oh, why don't we just come back and do Kilimanjaro next time? And I said, well, here's the thing, because of Kilimanjaro there's no lodging. You're camping, right, you're. And I said, well, I'm happy to get on a helicopter and be dropped off at the top so I can get the view, and you know. And they said, but that takes out all the fun. I said what fun are you referring to? Like you and I have different definitions of fun Hiking up this not fun yeah.

54:43 - Marie (Host)

You're hiking and you see fucking Damaris in a helicopter.

54:46 - Damaris (Host)

Yes, I was like I'll come down the ladder, like oh, hey. And I'm like, wow, this view is amazing. Like the exhilaration for me doesn't come from the hike, the exhilaration comes from the view. So you tell us how that works out for you, marie, I'm excited for you walking across the continent yeah, that's, that's, that's aggressive, because not even a country, you said a whole ass continent.

55:08 - Nachi (Host)

I'm like do you understand how big continents are? I just want to understand?

55:10 - Damaris (Host)

Yeah, that's aggressive, because not even a country used to have a whole ass continent. Do you understand?

55:13 - Nachi (Host)

how big continents are? I just want to understand the gravity of what you just said. I'm going to find out.

55:18 - Damaris (Host)

So thank you. Okay, well, you let us know how that works out for you, I'm going to do it.

55:21 - Marie (Host)

My fucking friend biked America when she was like 18. She did it on a bicycle.

55:27 - Nachi (Host)

Really yeah.

55:30 - Marie (Host)

That's just a lot of work for me I just want to do it.

55:33 - Damaris (Host)

I feel like it's like no, no, I think that's amazing I mean imagine looking at a country, but not for me on a map and you're like, I fucking walked that I like looking at countries and be like, oh my god, I went to the louvre. Oh my god, I had a great croissant at this restaurant. It was delicious oh, I love that. Oh, the amalfi coast oh, I did that. It was an amazing trip. You know, like I love that, I did that too. That was also I. I did that. Chef's kiss. No, yeah, I know I could. I really could sometimes I forget about the countries I've been to.

56:09 - Nachi (Host)

I will say real quick.

56:11 - Damaris (Host)

this is another episode Like one of the least favorite places and I probably won't even include this in this episode, but one of my least favorite was Prague.

56:19 - Marie (Host)

Everyone loves that one I've never been.

56:22 - Damaris (Host)

Yeah, because. So I went there with my husband and we, the people, were not nice.

56:28 - Marie (Host)

Oh yeah, eastern Europe. Yes, husband, and we the people were not nice oh yeah, eastern europe, yes, and so eastern europe.

56:33 - Damaris (Host)

Attitude was just but and it's also just like okay, you know what? I'm not gonna give you my money and you're gonna disrespect me like this with your attitude and it's, to me, something I just can't comprehend.

56:42

Like I get it and I also look. Prague is, you know, filled with a lot of young adults because they go there from like, especially if, if you're studying abroad, they go there to drink because it's like a party town Fine, but we're not even giving you that vibe and you're giving us the energy that, towards the end, when we were dropped off at the airport, the guy was haggling with me about how much I was supposed to give him. I was like, listen here, lana told me this amount over email this is what I'm giving you and I'm leaving. And we were flying to Copenhagen. I was like I'm getting the fuck out of this country because I'm done my, my husband, who is not by any means like aggressive, like you know, quick to fight like the night of his birthday there, he was like let's go back to the room, let's get, bring some drinks back to the room, because I'm gonna punch somebody in the face yeah, not adam yes because he's like, they're just so rude, like to the point.

57:37

He's like and I found out they were more rude to him maybe because he was a dude and, um, I'm a woman like they would just fuck up his wine, fuck up his orders, and he's just like yeah, and and with attitude. So it's just like you fucked up and then you still giving me attitude.

57:53 - Nachi (Host)

No, that's like take that wine and drink it yeah, the people can make or break a place oh yeah, every place has beautiful buildings.

58:01 - Marie (Host)

Every place has a beautiful tree, like yeah I was like how's? Your architecture.

58:05 - Damaris (Host)

I've seen it in other parts of europe, so I'm I'm good, so you're not giving me anything extra. That's like right, right no, the people make the place a hundred percent.

58:15 - Marie (Host)

It was terrible yeah, shout out to london why y'all got an attitude they're like, because we can I don't know we're the number one colonizers you're right, you're right you're right, you got, you got it.

58:36 - Damaris (Host)

Oh my goodness wait wait what's not? Cheese, what's not cheese? Oh wait, that's right, I don't know, not she. You have this question. Y'all two are annoying me right now. At least, marie, she came back that you had like 30 minutes to figure this out. I don't know, you had a whole week, and then now the last 30 minutes, and you still don't know.

58:55 - Nachi (Host)

Okay, one place Italy, but I don't know where in Italy, okay, okay.

58:59 - Damaris (Host)

Well, at least that's a country. Thank you, okay.

59:02 - Nachi (Host)

I will take it.

59:04 - Damaris (Host)

Oh, then we got to go to Italy, sister, the food is so good. We gotta go to italy, sister. The food is so good and the people in italy were really nice. Yeah, the people in italy were really nice yeah I like them good.

59:15

I didn't like the people in spain that much. They were okay, they weren't terrible, but they're fun. You know what it was? It was because where I went it wasn't I let me not say I'll take this back it wasn't the spanish people, it was the tourists that were there brits and spain.

59:34

Spain, yes, and I think he might have been british or and like I think he tried to mistake me for a hooker, because you know they were. Yeah, because he was saying something to me, I said don't fucking touch me, watch your mouth and I'm with your parents. This is when I'm with your parents and I was just like do I fucking look to you like? Stop playing with me, see, marie? This is why I have a Swiss Army knife why are you fucking with me, don't?

01:00:01

fucking touch me. I was like no, no, don't touch me. I was like no that's just a drunk.

01:00:11 - Marie (Host)

I guess she's not a hooker right he?

01:00:14 - Damaris (Host)

wasn't, he wasn't, he wasn't spanish, because I remember, so I'm like I can't really put that on.

01:00:17 - Marie (Host)

Yeah, that was spain. I love spain was good. Control your people, england, get them together. They're everywhere.

01:00:24 - Damaris (Host)

I love it, though I don't know, but they're also good people, so they're hilarious.

01:00:28 - Marie (Host)

But um, you just got. That was just one perv, that's all yeah.

01:00:31 - Damaris (Host)

Okay, well, thank you, nachi, for your answer and thank you, Marie, for holding us accountable for getting Nachi's answer.

01:00:37 - Marie (Host)

But all her answers. She just said she was like Italy.

01:00:39 - Nachi (Host)

I know, I know there was no, no like, oh why. I mean I've always wanted to visit Italy.

01:00:48 - Damaris (Host)

You know what that was the place. You did wanted to get married, and I remember that You've always talked about Italy.

01:00:53 - Nachi (Host)

Yeah, so I've always wanted to visit Italy. I love that, so it's like I have to visit one day.

01:01:00 - Marie (Host)

One day.

01:01:01 - Damaris (Host)

Yeah.

01:01:02 - Nachi (Host)

I just have to figure out where in Italy that I want to go to.

01:01:05 - Damaris (Host)

No, you don't, Because you just go back. That's the beautiful thing about italy. It's like, honestly, I go back and there's I want to go back because there's other places I want to visit you can't. That's not a country you can see, just in like a week. No, you go to one meaning like you go to one city or two for a week and but you're gonna go back because it's so, it's so right, right, yeah, yeah, oh, yeah well thank you, you're welcome.

01:01:31

Thank you, sister Marie. Okay, now we can actually close. Uh, thank you for being here.

01:01:38 - Marie (Host)

Yes, this was so lovely fun.

01:01:40 - Damaris (Host)

Yeah, love it this is a really good time and, um, again, thank you for for taking that time and especially with the time difference is being huge. So we totally appreciate you sharing your stories. And also, again, thank you for taking that time, especially with the time differences being huge. So we totally appreciate you sharing your stories and also just the, you know, inspiring, potentially inspiring others to maybe follow your path of doing something where it's just like you could do this for a living, travel full time and still work and still earn money.

01:02:07

And even if it's not for you, at least you could be inspired nonetheless and still work and still earn money. And and even if it's not for you, at least you could be inspired nonetheless and still travel and enjoy your time. And, and I think I'll close out with also, the biggest thing about traveling and when you're going to these different places is to be mindful of be present. When I say mindful's like be present in the moment, because that's how I got connected Right Be present and also be mindful of the people, the community Respect. Show some respect. This is where they live and they are opening their homes to you because when you're in their country, they are opening their homes to you. So I would just close out with that, but if you can, marie, tell people where they can find you and follow your podcast.

01:02:58 - Marie (Host)

Yes, Well, first of all, I actually want to shout out my business coach in case someone's like wait, I want to get the fuck out of my corporate job and travel.

01:03:05

Or just have more freedom in your life, have no boss. Her podcast is called the digital nomad life podcast. I actually edit it, um, and her name's krista, and you can always just like reach out to me if you just were curious about her program. But life changing, life changing, um, and I just like. It's just crazy. Everything I've experienced it's like because of her, um, and if you want to reach out to me, my podcast Instagram is at culture cult show.

01:03:34

If you like memes, I'm your girl. That's all I post. I don't post shit except for memes. And yeah, it's a, it's a good time, um. And then my podcast. Okay, I'm working on the SEO right now, um, but it's called Culture Cult. But to find the show you're going to have to type in Culture Cult Travel Show and you're going to put that in the show notes because it's going to be easier. But essentially the podcast is I explained that I am from Alabama, so I grew up really ignorant. So the podcast is a chance for you to learn about every country in the world without leaving your home, and that way, if you do meet someone from, like, the Czech Republic or Tanzania, you can be like oh, I know about your country, did you know this and you can connect and we can make this world smaller and better. But it's also a comedy podcast, so I bring on comedians.

01:04:22

I tell them about this country they've never heard of and I usually end with a really crazy story from that country, like there's a guy who he could never die. There's a guy who had nine lives in Croatia. I've covered, I'm covering a guy who has survived a cruise ship sinking in Zimbabwe. Like he was from Zimbabwe. He saved 500 people on a cruise ship. Um, that's a lot of death. Let me find another one. Um, it's like, she's like comedy, comedy. I'm trying to think of another story. People almost died, the murderous mermaids that people say that are in the waters in Zimbabwe.

01:04:58

Like it's like historic history travel comedy and it's called cultural and it's in the show notes and if you, that's it. If you want to just fucking become less ignorant, that's it. If you want to just fucking become less ignorant.

01:05:09 - Damaris (Host)

That's it. I love it. Thank you for that, and so I'm just going to close out, the way Nachi and I always do. There's a lot of noise out there, but our message is consistent Stop getting distracted by the smoke and mirrors, tune out the noise and focus on your divine purpose in life. Vibrate higher to elevate your frequency and always. Thank you for listening, guys. So, that said, don't forget to subscribe to our channel and follow us on Instagram, Tiktok and Twitter at imnotyelling_ and we look forward to talking next time.