LA: And you’re like, “How did we get here? How are we in the middle of nowhere in Kenya listening to ‘Like a Virgin?’”
BS: And it was just so… But she took this initiative and it’s stuff like that. It’s a shared experience with your children who start to really experience life and you see it through their eyes.
LA: I mentioned at the beginning, and I just want to squeeze it in, even though I know we have no time, is that trip to Antarctica that you talked to Traveler about, just top line takeaway, why was it so memorable?
BS: It was terrifying, and it was so cold. I’ve never been colder in my life and I realized I had claustrophobia, and yet it was the most magnificent sight to see these icebergs and glaciers and to be somewhere for 20 to 23 hours a day darkness was, it was so out of my sensibility. And I realized I don’t want to do it again, but I’m so glad that I witnessed it. It just stuck with me because not only did I feel so lucky that I live in the civilization that I do and I have access to what I do have, but it made me appreciate the beauty of blue ice, it’s so pure, it’s blue.
LA: The book comes out in mid-January. Will listeners be able to catch you on a book tour? Is there an audiobook? Are you reading the audiobook?
BS: There is an audiobook, I have just completed the audiobook.
LA: Fabulous. Brooke, I have to mention, when we were talking about you being obviously recognizable on the streets of New York, many years ago we sat next to each other at the Clam in the West Village. And the reason why this is so memorable to me is that it was quite late at night, I at least had had quite a bit to drink and we both had black handbags and we reached through each other’s bags and we took each other’s handbags when we were leaving.
BS: I remember that at The Clam, they make really good margaritas and that… Wait, when did we realize we had the wrong bag?
LA: This was like… Oh my God, it was probably like 2015.
BS: No, I mean, I don’t think I made it home with the wrong bag.
LA: No, no, no, it was walking out. It was, yeah. No.
BS: And then all of the sudden I was like, “Ah, [inaudible 00:29:02].”
LA: [inaudible 00:29:02], “This isn’t mine.”
BS: Yeah, we were sitting at the bar then.
LA: It was a very funny memory. And when I knew I was going to talk to you, I was like, “Oh my God, The Clam.”
BS: The Clam. I like the Clam.
LA: Thank you for listening to Women Who Travel. I’m Lale Arikoglu and you can find me on Instagram @lalehannah. Our engineer is Pran Bandi. And special thanks to Jake Lummus for engineering support. Our show is mixed by Amar Lal at Macro Sound. Jude Kampfner is our producer, Stephanie Kariuki, our executive producer, and Chris Bannon is head of Condé Nast Global Audio.
