Category: Drunk Interview

  • Drunk Interview: Sabbatical year traveler

    Drunk Interview: Sabbatical year traveler

    Even though I travel pretty often, I’ve never taken a year off to travel. I was excited to sit down with someone two weeks into her sabbatical year off to find out all the details of her planned trip. So while we shared a bottle of port wine, she filled me in on what it’s…

  • Drunk Interview: Nervous traveler

    Drunk Interview: Nervous traveler

    I’m a pretty anxious person, so talking to someone who is equally full of anxiety about their travel experiences is like listening to my own thoughts. I recently traveled to Ireland for the first time with one of my most anxiety-ridden friends. I wanted to get her drunken perspective about going on an adventure abroad…

  • Drunk Interview: Traveling without your child for the first time

    Drunk Interview: Traveling without your child for the first time

    As someone with no intention of having children, I don’t know much about what it’s like to travel without them. In search of insight about that experience, I sat down with a good friend and new mom, who recently took a weekend trip to New York, leaving her one-and-a-half year old at home for the…

  • Drunk Interview: The Cuba tourists don’t see

    Drunk Interview: The Cuba tourists don’t see

    Since the US relaxed travel restrictions to my homeland, it’s become the hot new travel destination for Americans. Everyone is lounging in Varadero and snapping pics of the vintage cars in Havana. But a filmmaker friend of mine, Christopher Lopez, went to check out the Cuba most people don’t want to visit – the Cuba…

  • Drunk Interview: Confessions of a Flight Attendant

    Drunk Interview: Confessions of a Flight Attendant

    I’m usually writing from the perspective of a traveler. But I got to sit down for a candid chat with someone who has to deal with our entitled, obnoxious asses constantly: a flight attendant. Here is what she had to say about what it’s really like to fly the friendly skies on Czech Airlines. Full…

  • Drunk Interview: Hurricane Irma Evacuees

    Drunk Interview: Hurricane Irma Evacuees

    A couple of months ago, I had what I thought was the worst travel experiences when I went from Prague to Cusco; a trip that took 32 hours. But when Hurricane Irma threatened to totally mess up a scheduled trip, these two evacuees beat my experience and then some.  My friend, who never loses her…