There She Goes

There She Goes

Welcome to There She Goes: travel stories told by the women who wrote them. There She Goes is a place to hear travel essays by women--their words and experiences, told in their own voices. No interviews, no conversation, just great storytelling by women travelers. Each week, escape to a different elsewhere with a new travel companion. Trek through a Thai jungle with a guide of dubious intentions. Take a road trip with your family along the Boudin Trail in Southern Louisiana. Lean out a window in Bangalore, India, and learn about the politics of desire. Fear for your life while navigating the switchbacks of Sicily. Head to Suriname, Paraguay, Guyana and French Guiana on a personal quest. Find comfort in a silent twilight ritual in Iran. Flirt with a stranger on the cliffs of Santorini. There She Goes reminds us of the power and importance of women’s travel narratives. Proves they are nothing short of essential. *Our theme music is a selection from the song “City of Refuge” created and performed by Abigail Washburn.

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September 4, 2024 20 mins
Natalie is the author of the novel, Queen Sugar, which was adapted for seven television seasons by writer/director Ava DuVernay, and co-produced by Oprah Winfrey. Queen Sugar was named one of the San Francisco Chronicles’ Best Books of 2014, and nominated for an NAACP Image Award. In her new non-fiction book, We Are Each Other’s Harvest: Celebrating African American Farmers, Land & Legacy, Natalie brings together essays, poems, con...
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For our fifth episode of S3 of There She Goes, we're proud to partner with VONA Traveling While BIPOC, the nation's first writing workshop for travelers of color. Adriana is a cultural anthropologist and women’s rights advocate. She is the award-winning author of Looking for Esperanza, My Mother’s Funeral, Keeping Quiet: Sixteen Essays on Silence, an essay collection coming out on September 24th, and Good Girls Don’t Sing La Bamba,...
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Kelly is the co-creator and co-host of There She Goes, a storytelling travel podcast. Beyond her creative endeavors in modern quilting and the banjo, Kelly has more than 20 years of experience managing nonprofits. She recently had her first solo art show and will have a piece on display at LAX for the next year. She enjoys dual citizenship with Italy and loves Sicily—especially a little beach with blue and white umbrellas in Cefalu...
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Lindsey is the author of The View From Below: Stories and The Water Will Hold You, a memoir. Her essays have appeared in Cimarron (SIMMERON) Review, the Washington Post, the New York Times, Best American Spiritual Writing, Real Simple, and Image. Lindsey’s award-winning short fiction has been published in Mississippi Review, Glimmer Train, Quarterly West, and elsewhere. Lindsey lives in San Francisco and is a member of the Writers ...
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Meera Subramanian is an award-winning independent journalist, and author of A River Runs Again: India's Natural World in Crisis. Her work has been published in Nature, The New York Times, The NewYorker.com, and many others, and she’s a contributing editor of Orion magazine. She has been a Knight Science Journalism fellow at MIT, a Fulbright-Nehru senior research fellow, the board president of the Society of Environmental Journalist...
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You all may know us as Podcasters, but we’re also moms – and we have deep love for the mothers who raised us – so we’re delighted to be starting off Season Three in honor of Mother’s Day, traveling with Emma Morell to Qatar, where she explores the joys and challenges of motherhood and living abroad. Emma Morell is an award-winning British travel writer, researcher, and blogger. Emma has spent more than a third of her life outside ...
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May 1, 2024 29 mins
There She Goes has some big changes ahead!
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For our final episode of Season 2, we're proud to partner with VONA Traveling While BIPOC, the nation's first writing workshop for travelers of color. In this episode, Christina Brobby journeys to the Faroe Islands, where she pushes through anxiety and finds herself moved to tears by an experience that awaits her. Christina lives in Canada’s Yukon on the Traditional Territories of the Kwanlin Dün First Nation and the Ta'an Kwäch'än...
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Today we travel with Sivani Babu to Antarctica, aboard a sailboat crossing the Drake Passage—the roughest sea in the world and a place of deep desolation. A place where there is no rescue. Sivani Babu is the co-founder and co-CEO of Hidden Compass and an award-winning photographer and journalist. Her work meshes history, science, and exploration, and has appeared in numerous national and international publications and exhibits. Her...
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This week we travel with our own co-host Lavinia Spalding to Busan, South Korea, where, after being told her whole life she can’t sing, she finally finds her voice. Lavinia is an award-winning author and editor who has published ten books. She’s the author of Writing Away, six-time series editor of The Best Women’s Travel Writing, and co-author of With a Measure of Grace, This Immeasurable Place, and the 2022 Frommer’s EasyGuide t...
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Today we travel with Yukari Kane to Hokkaido, Japan, where, after a kidney transplant, she skis, and bathes in hot springs, and attempts to make peace with a version of Japan she didn’t expect to find. Yukari Kane is an author, educator and veteran journalist with 20 years of experience including at The Wall Street Journal and Reuters. She is co-founder and CEO of Prison Journalism Project and the author of "Haunted Empire: Apple...
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Today we travel with Samantha Schoech to Venice, Italy, where she basks in afternoon espressos, pitchers of Prosecco, flirtation with an Italian man named Fluvio, and the pure happiness of being unfettered. Samantha is a writer, traveler, and mom in San Francisco where she works as the books editor at the San Francisco Chronicle. Her essays, fiction, and journalism have appeared in many places including the New York Times, Sevente...
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September 30, 2022 24 mins
A quick check in about summer and a glimpse of things to come for the remainder of Season 2.
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This week, in honor of Father’s Day, we travel with Alison Singh Gee to Yosemite National park in California, where she revisits memories of her father and finally musters the strength to stand up to an old nemesis. Alison, a former Time Inc. journalist, wrote Where the Peacocks Sing, a Hong Kong-India memoir about her discovery that her Indian-journalist fiancé grew up in a 19th-century palace. She is a professor of creative no...
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This week we travel with Sandra Gail Lambert to the Florida Everglades, where she finds out if her complex solo kayaking plan will be worth the effort –or even possible. Sandra Gail Lambert writes fiction and memoir that is often about the body and its relationship to the natural world. She is the author of the Lambda Literary Award-nominated memoir A Certain Loneliness and The River's Memory, a novel. Her writing has been widely ...
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Today we travel with Jenna Scatena to a jungle in Northern Thailand where she impetuously entrusts her life to a mysterious, notorious--and potentially dangerous--trekking guide. Jenna is an independent journalist based in Istanbul and San Francisco. She has been an editor for Sunset and San Francisco Magazines and has reported for American and British media from 21 countries in the Middle East, Asia, and Europe, where her work ex...
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Today we travel with Angela Long to India, where she meets a holy man with an important message for her. Angela Long is a freelance journalist and multi-genre writer. Her work has appeared in numerous publications, including the Globe and Mail, Utne Reader, and Poetry Ireland Review. She's the author of two books, Observations from Off the Grid (2010), and Every Day We Disappear (2018). While she calls Canada home, she lives part-t...
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Jacqueline is the author of the novels, Passing Love and Searching for Tina Turner . Her essays have been published in Best Women’s Travel Writing 2011 and 2020, and the Huffington Post. She received her MFA in Creative Writing and Writing for the Performing Arts from the University of California Riverside. The Bay Area native lives in Oakland, and continues her travels to nurture her passion for photography and exotic foods.
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Today we travel with Pam Mandel to Branson, Missouri, where she finds a state of confusion and an unexpected plot twist in the familiar Passover story. Pam’s work has appeared in Seattle Met, Lonely Planet, the San Francisco Chronicle, DK Eyewitness, Afar, AAA’s Via Magazine, G Adventures, and the Best Women’s Travel Writing. She co-founded The Statesider, an award-winning publication that curates the most interesting stories abou...
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Today we travel with Lisa Boice to Ecuador, where she searches for inspiration in the form of one courageous, elusive bird. When not working her corporate job as a communications manager, Lisa Boice travels the world with her husband in search of birds. Her work has appeared in The Statesider and she has received a handful of Solas Travel Writing Awards from Travelers Tales. Stories of her birding travels can be found at TheAccide...
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