May 29, 2025 • 9 mins
Caller Jill went solo traveling and gives us all the details on her incredible trip!
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Also, Gandhi's here, and there's Scary producer Sam is here,
there's Danielle and Straight eight. So you know, we talked
about traveling a lot on this show, and so our
print and Jill, let me get Jill on here. Hello, Jill, Hi, Yeah,
we're talking. We're just talking about how we talk about
travel a lot on the show. We also talk about
(00:44):
solo travel a lot. So, Jill, you just got back
from a solo vacation and you definitely had naturally reservations
before you took a vacation by yourself. But now after
your vacation, what do you think? What say you?
Speaker 4 (01:00):
Every single adult needs to go on vacation by themselves.
Speaker 1 (01:06):
Kids, talk about what happened to you.
Speaker 4 (01:10):
My mom and I were supposed to go away to Charleston.
She had gotten ill. She's fine now, but she didn't
think she'd be up to walking the twenty thousand steps
a day that I ended up doing. So we ended
up canceling her tickets. Mine were non refundable. So my
husband and I talked about it and he said, you
should go. And I'm like, I've never traveled alone before,
(01:31):
like this is this is not like I'm meeting people
out there and flying by myself. Like I'm going to
be eating alone, walking around I don't know where I am,
I don't know anybody. And he said, just do it,
so I did. It was the most incredible four days
that I've had since I mean the kids being born,
of course, but I felt like me again, not mom,
(01:53):
not wife. I just felt like a person again.
Speaker 3 (01:55):
Wow, that is a glowing endorsement right there. When you
got off the plane, where were you still in your
Oh gosh, I may regret this mode. And if so,
what was it that first gave you the feeling that
this was a great idea?
Speaker 4 (02:12):
When I've when I first go off the plane, I
thanked God because we had mechanical issues and had a
d plane. Oh. I had to do my first layover,
which I've never done before, and then we had mechanical issues,
and I just kept thinking, is this a sign I
should not have done this? But it worked out. Everything
was great. The thing that really changed. It was I
(02:33):
arranged for a car service that I saw on Facebook
while I was looking up different things to do in Charleston,
and everybody was recommending this car service, so I reached
out to him. Turns out we grew up fifteen minutes
away from each other. He moved down there twenty years
ago and we were speaking. He's like, anywhere you want
to go, just call me, him and his brother of
(02:53):
a car service. He made me feel so comfortable. He
gave me advice on where I should go, things I
should do, and left with a new tattoo like they
were just It was such an incredible trip. Wow, Wow,
that's awesome.
Speaker 3 (03:07):
Now you're making each and every one of us so
anxious about going out and traveling by ourselves.
Speaker 1 (03:13):
I would love to do that. What's up, Gandhi?
Speaker 2 (03:15):
So is this gonna be a one and done for
you or do you think you're going to travel more alone?
And would you leave the country by yourself?
Speaker 4 (03:23):
I don't know about leaving the country by myself. I
mean I was crying at the airport, worrying about leaving
the kids behind. You know, you always worry about worst
case scenario, and I want to see my kids grow
up when if something happens to me, So maybe another
country I wouldn't do alone, but I would definitely do
somewhere in the United States alone. I would love to
(03:44):
replan a trip with mom.
Speaker 1 (03:45):
Next time you come here.
Speaker 4 (03:46):
You do Chinatown alone and they give you the fake bags,
you go in the back.
Speaker 5 (03:50):
That's something in itself if you can get through that.
Speaker 4 (03:52):
Danielle, I went. I grew up in New York, and
I moved. I went to college out in Pennsylvania, and
when I graduated, I picked up. I moved to Brooklyn,
not knowing anybody. I knew one person that I met
randomly a couple months before. We rented an apartment for
two months together before I got my own place. And
this is what I felt like again, that I was
(04:13):
that person who was fearless, who could go out and
do anything and be somebody. It was incredible, how fun.
Speaker 1 (04:20):
You know?
Speaker 3 (04:20):
There are so many people listening as I said, who
are now starting to think it through, maybe looking at
their calendars, plotting your course.
Speaker 1 (04:28):
Other means we're going.
Speaker 3 (04:29):
No, I can't do it, never could in a millionaire's
travel by myself.
Speaker 1 (04:33):
I don't know.
Speaker 3 (04:33):
If it's well, what are you, what are you nervous about, Like.
Speaker 2 (04:37):
I don't know, I'm nervous about eating alone. Well, no,
not eating alone. I just my family has me so
convinced that someone's going to snatch me off the streets
and I'll be you know, like harvested for kidneys or something.
And you know, if something happens to you, you always
want a person there with you to you know, to
look out for you. But traveling alone seems like the
best thing you could ever do. So what do you
(04:58):
risk it?
Speaker 3 (04:58):
Well, if anyone snatches you off the street, it's a
matter of moments till they bring you back. My thing
is this when I go someplace and I'm by myself
for business, whatever, and I experienced something I want more
than anything to have so and I love right there
next to me experiencing the same thing, and they're not.
(05:19):
It's just me and I have to go home and
put it into words, which is never, ever.
Speaker 5 (05:22):
Never the same.
Speaker 1 (05:23):
It's not the same.
Speaker 4 (05:25):
Yeah, I think I never do it.
Speaker 1 (05:27):
Well, I've given it some thought later in life.
Speaker 5 (05:30):
You know, as a kid twenty years ago, you could
never get me to do it. But but I'm wondering,
is the experience different as a guy versus a woman,
because for I mean, of course it is well for me,
I wouldn't have the same fears as like a Gandhi
Wood because I'm like, okay, I'm okay, I'm not going
to get stolen. But but the opposite, the opposite may
(05:53):
be true because I'm thinking what if?
Speaker 4 (05:54):
What if?
Speaker 5 (05:55):
Like I get there and people like, I'm not talking
to this creepy guy. Women are people are easy. Women
are more easy to talk to, and so you get
to know friends and people more as a woman. As
a guy, it's like, get out of my world, get
out of my space. So I feel like i'd be
I'd be like in isolation.
Speaker 1 (06:14):
Yeah, Sam, Sam wants to comment on what you just said.
Speaker 2 (06:17):
I just love how women are afraid of like danger
and threats, and men are afraid of perceived social situations.
Speaker 1 (06:27):
I don't want to go and feel alone.
Speaker 5 (06:29):
I want to be able to talk to people without
them like judging me.
Speaker 3 (06:32):
You don't want to, so that's your thing. You don't
want to be alone. I don't I know, but I
think being alone is exactly what you need. I mean, Jill,
when you were in Charleston by yourself, were you seeking
out conversations with others, or they just happened organically, and
or if they didn't happen, you're totally fine with it.
You're okay not having to talk to someone.
Speaker 4 (06:56):
I don't know if it's a Southern thing or if
I just I'm a strange New Yorker that always has
her guard up. But everybody talks to you down there.
But as soon as I hit my layover in Atlanta,
the conversation started. Everybody was chatting away during the mechanical issues.
Anywhere I went to grab something, I would grab a
smoothie day, they were talk to me. I got invited
(07:20):
out to brunch by somebody that I ran into in
the streets with him and his friend. I did not
go because it turned out he was trying to hit
on me, and I didn't want to feel I'm married,
happily married, so I didn't want to deal with that nonsense.
But everybody was super friendly. That The one thing I
regret doing I was nervous about eating dinner alone, and
(07:41):
the first night was a little strange that the second
night I ended up eating at Chipotle by myself, and
it was the worst experience I had, and I vowed
not to do that again. So I went to a
rooftop bar and had sushi the next night, and I
went to another restaurant the following night and actually met
a nice couple from Chicago. So it was they talk.
Speaker 1 (08:02):
To me, there you have it. Did you swing with them?
Speaker 4 (08:06):
I did not.
Speaker 3 (08:10):
That's why it's great to eat at the bar when
I'm when I'm somewhere by myself, I go to the.
Speaker 1 (08:14):
Bar and eat there.
Speaker 3 (08:15):
And you know, if you do need to have a conversation,
there's always the bartender or someone next year or.
Speaker 4 (08:19):
Whatever, or And like Dandie said, she's worried about getting kidnapped.
I don't drink, you know, unless it's like a special occasion.
And they were like, oh, you can have a drink,
and I'm like, no, Like I'm traveling alone, I don't
know where I am. I didn't want to risk anything.
Like I was super careful with that kind of stuff.
Speaker 1 (08:36):
So you're going to do it again, I will.
Speaker 2 (08:39):
Do it again.
Speaker 1 (08:40):
Nice love that all right, And.
Speaker 4 (08:43):
The appreciation from the kids and the husband when I returned,
it's like a whole new that's the best part.
Speaker 3 (08:52):
Jill has been a pleasure speaking with you. Thank you
for motivating all of us to go travel on our own.
I think vacation. I think I'm going somewhere about myself.
Bye bye anyway, Jill, Love you for listening, Have a
beautiful day.
Speaker 1 (09:04):
Thanks for sharing.
Speaker 4 (09:05):
Love you guys.
Speaker 1 (09:07):
The Elvis DA Ran after party
Get your head us together and we're going to start
to party. In starting party, I'm reading a party, the.
Speaker 2 (00:07):
Elvis Duran After Party.
Speaker 1 (00:14):
Let's do it. The after Party podcast is on.
Speaker 3 (00:16):
We've got Scottie b Killer.
Speaker 1 (00:21):
Serial Killers podcast room.
Speaker 3 (00:23):
Also, Gandhi's here, and there's Scary producer Sam is here,
there's Danielle and Straight eight. So you know, we talked
about traveling a lot on this show, and so our
print and Jill, let me get Jill on here. Hello, Jill, Hi, Yeah,
we're talking. We're just talking about how we talk about
travel a lot on the show. We also talk about
(00:44):
solo travel a lot. So, Jill, you just got back
from a solo vacation and you definitely had naturally reservations
before you took a vacation by yourself. But now after
your vacation, what do you think? What say you?
Speaker 4 (01:00):
Every single adult needs to go on vacation by themselves.
Speaker 1 (01:06):
Kids, talk about what happened to you.
Speaker 4 (01:10):
My mom and I were supposed to go away to Charleston.
She had gotten ill. She's fine now, but she didn't
think she'd be up to walking the twenty thousand steps
a day that I ended up doing. So we ended
up canceling her tickets. Mine were non refundable. So my
husband and I talked about it and he said, you
should go. And I'm like, I've never traveled alone before,
(01:31):
like this is this is not like I'm meeting people
out there and flying by myself. Like I'm going to
be eating alone, walking around I don't know where I am,
I don't know anybody. And he said, just do it,
so I did. It was the most incredible four days
that I've had since I mean the kids being born,
of course, but I felt like me again, not mom,
(01:53):
not wife. I just felt like a person again.
Speaker 3 (01:55):
Wow, that is a glowing endorsement right there. When you
got off the plane, where were you still in your
Oh gosh, I may regret this mode. And if so,
what was it that first gave you the feeling that
this was a great idea?
Speaker 4 (02:12):
When I've when I first go off the plane, I
thanked God because we had mechanical issues and had a
d plane. Oh. I had to do my first layover,
which I've never done before, and then we had mechanical issues,
and I just kept thinking, is this a sign I
should not have done this? But it worked out. Everything
was great. The thing that really changed. It was I
(02:33):
arranged for a car service that I saw on Facebook
while I was looking up different things to do in Charleston,
and everybody was recommending this car service, so I reached
out to him. Turns out we grew up fifteen minutes
away from each other. He moved down there twenty years
ago and we were speaking. He's like, anywhere you want
to go, just call me, him and his brother of
(02:53):
a car service. He made me feel so comfortable. He
gave me advice on where I should go, things I
should do, and left with a new tattoo like they
were just It was such an incredible trip. Wow, Wow,
that's awesome.
Speaker 3 (03:07):
Now you're making each and every one of us so
anxious about going out and traveling by ourselves.
Speaker 1 (03:13):
I would love to do that. What's up, Gandhi?
Speaker 2 (03:15):
So is this gonna be a one and done for
you or do you think you're going to travel more alone?
And would you leave the country by yourself?
Speaker 4 (03:23):
I don't know about leaving the country by myself. I
mean I was crying at the airport, worrying about leaving
the kids behind. You know, you always worry about worst
case scenario, and I want to see my kids grow
up when if something happens to me, So maybe another
country I wouldn't do alone, but I would definitely do
somewhere in the United States alone. I would love to
(03:44):
replan a trip with mom.
Speaker 1 (03:45):
Next time you come here.
Speaker 4 (03:46):
You do Chinatown alone and they give you the fake bags,
you go in the back.
Speaker 5 (03:50):
That's something in itself if you can get through that.
Speaker 4 (03:52):
Danielle, I went. I grew up in New York, and
I moved. I went to college out in Pennsylvania, and
when I graduated, I picked up. I moved to Brooklyn,
not knowing anybody. I knew one person that I met
randomly a couple months before. We rented an apartment for
two months together before I got my own place. And
this is what I felt like again, that I was
(04:13):
that person who was fearless, who could go out and
do anything and be somebody. It was incredible, how fun.
Speaker 1 (04:20):
You know?
Speaker 3 (04:20):
There are so many people listening as I said, who
are now starting to think it through, maybe looking at
their calendars, plotting your course.
Speaker 1 (04:28):
Other means we're going.
Speaker 3 (04:29):
No, I can't do it, never could in a millionaire's
travel by myself.
Speaker 1 (04:33):
I don't know.
Speaker 3 (04:33):
If it's well, what are you, what are you nervous about, Like.
Speaker 2 (04:37):
I don't know, I'm nervous about eating alone. Well, no,
not eating alone. I just my family has me so
convinced that someone's going to snatch me off the streets
and I'll be you know, like harvested for kidneys or something.
And you know, if something happens to you, you always
want a person there with you to you know, to
look out for you. But traveling alone seems like the
best thing you could ever do. So what do you
(04:58):
risk it?
Speaker 3 (04:58):
Well, if anyone snatches you off the street, it's a
matter of moments till they bring you back. My thing
is this when I go someplace and I'm by myself
for business, whatever, and I experienced something I want more
than anything to have so and I love right there
next to me experiencing the same thing, and they're not.
(05:19):
It's just me and I have to go home and
put it into words, which is never, ever.
Speaker 5 (05:22):
Never the same.
Speaker 1 (05:23):
It's not the same.
Speaker 4 (05:25):
Yeah, I think I never do it.
Speaker 1 (05:27):
Well, I've given it some thought later in life.
Speaker 5 (05:30):
You know, as a kid twenty years ago, you could
never get me to do it. But but I'm wondering,
is the experience different as a guy versus a woman,
because for I mean, of course it is well for me,
I wouldn't have the same fears as like a Gandhi
Wood because I'm like, okay, I'm okay, I'm not going
to get stolen. But but the opposite, the opposite may
(05:53):
be true because I'm thinking what if?
Speaker 4 (05:54):
What if?
Speaker 5 (05:55):
Like I get there and people like, I'm not talking
to this creepy guy. Women are people are easy. Women
are more easy to talk to, and so you get
to know friends and people more as a woman. As
a guy, it's like, get out of my world, get
out of my space. So I feel like i'd be
I'd be like in isolation.
Speaker 1 (06:14):
Yeah, Sam, Sam wants to comment on what you just said.
Speaker 2 (06:17):
I just love how women are afraid of like danger
and threats, and men are afraid of perceived social situations.
Speaker 1 (06:27):
I don't want to go and feel alone.
Speaker 5 (06:29):
I want to be able to talk to people without
them like judging me.
Speaker 3 (06:32):
You don't want to, so that's your thing. You don't
want to be alone. I don't I know, but I
think being alone is exactly what you need. I mean, Jill,
when you were in Charleston by yourself, were you seeking
out conversations with others, or they just happened organically, and
or if they didn't happen, you're totally fine with it.
You're okay not having to talk to someone.
Speaker 4 (06:56):
I don't know if it's a Southern thing or if
I just I'm a strange New Yorker that always has
her guard up. But everybody talks to you down there.
But as soon as I hit my layover in Atlanta,
the conversation started. Everybody was chatting away during the mechanical issues.
Anywhere I went to grab something, I would grab a
smoothie day, they were talk to me. I got invited
(07:20):
out to brunch by somebody that I ran into in
the streets with him and his friend. I did not
go because it turned out he was trying to hit
on me, and I didn't want to feel I'm married,
happily married, so I didn't want to deal with that nonsense.
But everybody was super friendly. That The one thing I
regret doing I was nervous about eating dinner alone, and
(07:41):
the first night was a little strange that the second
night I ended up eating at Chipotle by myself, and
it was the worst experience I had, and I vowed
not to do that again. So I went to a
rooftop bar and had sushi the next night, and I
went to another restaurant the following night and actually met
a nice couple from Chicago. So it was they talk.
Speaker 1 (08:02):
To me, there you have it. Did you swing with them?
Speaker 4 (08:06):
I did not.
Speaker 3 (08:10):
That's why it's great to eat at the bar when
I'm when I'm somewhere by myself, I go to the.
Speaker 1 (08:14):
Bar and eat there.
Speaker 3 (08:15):
And you know, if you do need to have a conversation,
there's always the bartender or someone next year or.
Speaker 4 (08:19):
Whatever, or And like Dandie said, she's worried about getting kidnapped.
I don't drink, you know, unless it's like a special occasion.
And they were like, oh, you can have a drink,
and I'm like, no, Like I'm traveling alone, I don't
know where I am. I didn't want to risk anything.
Like I was super careful with that kind of stuff.
Speaker 1 (08:36):
So you're going to do it again, I will.
Speaker 2 (08:39):
Do it again.
Speaker 1 (08:40):
Nice love that all right, And.
Speaker 4 (08:43):
The appreciation from the kids and the husband when I returned,
it's like a whole new that's the best part.
Speaker 3 (08:52):
Jill has been a pleasure speaking with you. Thank you
for motivating all of us to go travel on our own.
I think vacation. I think I'm going somewhere about myself.
Bye bye anyway, Jill, Love you for listening, Have a
beautiful day.
Speaker 1 (09:04):
Thanks for sharing.
Speaker 4 (09:05):
Love you guys.
Speaker 1 (09:07):
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