“When you travel a lot,” says Kathy Pulkrabek, one of the hosts of the podcast XX Will Travel, “and you tell people about it, you kind of see their eyes glaze over.”
The worst travel emergency Bellina, 35, has ever experienced was when she needed to have a toenail removed during a trip to Cusco, Peru. “They had to call in a doctor to actually remove it and the only place to do this was in a hostel. It was a whole series of unfortunate events,” Bellina says.
“We want to reach the people who are intimidated or overwhelmed by [traveling] and see that traveling is for them too,” Bellina adds.
