A traveler with a Scandinavian first name, German surname, Midwestern sensibilities, and Korean background pursues layered cultural histories across destinations. Pilgrimage along the ancient Via Francigena follows a route from Chaucer's Canterbury to Rome, offering encounters with centuries of religious and human movement. Visits to Gilded Age estates reveal architectural grandeur, social prestige, and the legacies of wealth. Attendance at the Minnesota State Fair examines rural traditions, dairy princess pageantry, and Midwestern communal rituals. Regional road trips include roadside Americana and towns famous for outsized attractions. Hosting and storytelling across varied media formats adapt these observations for wider audiences.
With a Scandanavian first name, German surname, Midwestern sensibilities, and Korean background, Meinzer seeks out the multi-hyphenate histories of others wherever her travels take her. She returns to the podcast to chat with Lale about her latest adventures-including hiking the ancient Via Francigena which begins in Chaucer's Cantebury and ends in Rome, beholding the magnificence and prestige of Gilded Age estates, and following dairy princess pageantry at the Minnesota State Fair.
Lale Arikoglu: Hi, there. I'm Lale Arikoglu, and this is Women Who Travel. Today, I'm talking with the podcaster and author Kristen Meinzer. Kristen is great at talking about pretty much everything. Before we started recording, we were talking about all of the podcasts that you have hosted and you really... You're like a Swiss army knife of podcasters from topics on health to movies, to self-help, you touch on travel most relevantly.
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