Solo Travel Adventures: Safe Travel for Women, Preparing for a Trip, Overcoming Fear, Travel Tips
Equipping Women over 50 to Safely Travel in Confidence
Is fear holding you back from traveling because you don’t have anyone to go with? Are you concerned about being a woman traveling alone? Not sure how to prepare for a solo trip? Do family and friends think you are crazy for even considering solo travel in this day and age?
In this podcast, you will become equipped to travel safely by yourself. You’ll learn things like tactical travel tips and how to prepare for a trip, and how to overcome the fear so you can discover the transformation that travel can bring. My mission is to see more women over 50, empty-nesters, discover how travel can empower them. If you want to enjoy your next travel adventure solo, then start your journey here.
Hi Sister Travelers, I’m Cheryl, solo travel advocate and coach. I spent nearly 20 years putting my family/children first and felt guilty about even considering solo travel at the time. After my divorce and transitioning to an empty nest, I began to rediscover my passion for travel, built confidence in myself, and started to explore again. I have experienced life-changing adventures through travel and I want the same for you.
If you are ready to find freedom through travel and build your confidence while safely navigating new places, then this podcast is for you!
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Solo Travel Adventures: Safe Travel for Women, Preparing for a Trip, Overcoming Fear, Travel Tips
From Trauma to Peace: One Woman's Epic Australian Odyssey with Tess Millhollon
What drives a woman to sell everything she owns, travel halfway around the world, and jump on yachts with complete strangers? For Tess Millhollon, author and founder of Her House, it was the desperate need to reclaim her sense of self after surviving sexual assault in college.
Tess shares her remarkable journey of healing through solo travel in Australia, where she discovered that recreating her comfortable bartending life from Texas wasn't enough. The pivotal moment came when she spotted a hostel job board posting: "yacht crew wanted, no experience necessary." This spontaneous decision led to her learning to sail and "yacht hopping" up the Australian coastline—what she humorously calls "extreme hitchhiking"—creating the adventure of a lifetime.
Throughout her seven-month journey, Tess encountered what she calls "persons of peace"—strangers who became divine connections offering safety and community when she needed it most. One particularly meaningful encounter with a woman at an airport who later connected her with hosts became the inspiration for Her House, her current venture connecting solo women travelers for safe accommodations worldwide.
The conversation delves into the emotional challenges of long-term solo travel, including homesickness and the importance of bringing small comfort items like fuzzy socks or a familiar pillowcase. Tess beautifully articulates how solo travel teaches you to trust your intuition—knowing when to push forward and when a journey should end. "No one had done what I'd done, no one had felt what I felt...like I had me," she explains, highlighting how self-reliance during travel transfers powerfully to everyday life.
For women considering solo adventures, Tess recommends establishing connections in your destination before arriving—exactly what Her House facilitates through its community of background-checked members spanning all generations. Whether you're in your twenties like Tess was or a retiree seeking new experiences, this growing network offers both safety and authentic cultural immersion.
Ready to find your own healing journey? Download the Her House app, visit herhouseco.com to explore membership options, or read Tess's full story in her book "Sherbet Skies"—a testament that no matter how far you travel, you're never truly alone.
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Hello, sister travelers, welcome to Solo Travel Adventures. I'm Cheryl Esch, your host, solo travel advocate and travel coach. Well, if you've been listening a while, you know that occasionally I like to bring guests on and if you're new, welcome. I like to bring guests on because I love having them share their stories here on the show and to give you examples of how women have faced their fears, stepped out of their comfort zone and solo traveled. I've had some epic guests on with some really great stories and by doing this, I hope to inspire you to do the same in your life and have your own transformative solo travel experience. Well, today's guest is no exception, with her story of adventure to discover herself and find healing I have.
Speaker 1:Tess Milholland is a published author and founder of Her House, an app community that brings solo women travelers together so they can host each other and find safe and free accommodations across the globe. Tess lives outside San Antonio, texas, with her husband and son. She enjoys hiking, reading and a good craft beer. Well, let's listen in to our conversation and I'm hoping you feel inspired and to join the community as well. Well, hello, tess, welcome to the show.
Speaker 2:Cheryl, thank you so much for having me. This is so much fun.
Speaker 1:I know Well, as we were talking off air, that just we have such a there's, this small community. We find that we're connected in other ways somehow, right through mutual people that we know. So happy to have you on and I am so excited to share your story because I was inspired by your story. I actually resonated a lot with your story as far as what you wrote in your book. So I'd like you to actually start with a little bit of your story, but I'm very keen on having you share what prompted such an epic adventure, solo adventure that you went on what? Seven months, I guess or so. So tell us about that.
Speaker 2:Oh yeah, well, for those of you who are not super familiar with me, my name is Tess Milholland, I am an author and founder of Her House, and so what happened is I actually went to Australia right after I graduated college. Actually, I spent the first year out of college just like totally lost and I didn't know what I wanted to do with my life like a lot of new graduates do and I ended up selling everything that I had and I ended up just going overseas and solo backpacking. I mean, a big reason why I went over there was because I felt lost and I didn't know what to do with my next steps in life. But I also went through some hard stuff while I was in college.
Speaker 2:I went through a sexual assault while I was in college and so I was in this place in my life where I didn't want to be around men and I was like really scared of men and I was healing and I really needed to just get away from everything and really kind of like reclaim myself, reclaim my body and figure out who I was. And I really felt like solo traveling had a huge part in that process of like me meeting God on the other side of the world on sailboats. You know and I won't give too much of a way what's in the book, but it was just a really beautiful experience of solo traveling and that's why I'm really so passionate and so excited to help more women have solo travel experiences too.
Speaker 1:I, you were very vulnerable with that and sharing why. You know what prompted sort of this need to, you know, find some healing and finding that across the ocean, like on the other side of the world for you I wish I had known and the reason you resonate and I'll be vulnerable. You were vulnerable, I'll be vulnerable, but I was in college. I was raped twice, so I understand, but I wish I had known the, the magic of behind, how much travel could have helped me heal, based on my personality too, cause I loved to travel even back then. Um, but unfortunately that's not what I did when that happened to me. So I am so happy you found that avenue and I know while you were on that journey you had some very incredible I like some people call them God winks, or just you know you could see God's hand in the different paths and different things that were happening. God's hand in the different paths and different things that were happening. Can you share you know?
Speaker 2:when you actually experienced that a time or two when you were over in Australia. Well, I will say that, even before I left, I had someone tell me before yeah, before I left that I would be always provided a person of peace and that God would continue to bring your person of peace into the journey with you. And I was like I don't really know what that means, but I'm like I'll take it. And so, over and over again, I found God bringing people into my life to help take care of me along the journey. One of the really big moments for me and it was actually one of the most inspirational points of my journey that led me to create Her House was when I was traveling from Brisbane to or, excuse me, I was traveling from Melbourne to Sydney. I was in the airport and I had, you know, my big backpack on. You know, backpackers are very common in Australia, you know, you see them all over the place. And so I struck up a conversation with a woman behind me. She was there with her kids and they were traveling, and I was like, oh, I like your dress. And she's like oh, you know, you're traveling, when are you from? And I was like, oh, I'm American, you know. So we were like just chit chatting for a while and then I said, OK, well, I got to go. And so I started heading over to my gate and she runs after me in the airport and taps me on the shoulder and I was like she's like, I'm so sorry, I don't mean to startle you, but are you going to Queensland sometime soon? No-transcript my way of paying it forward, because you remind me of her. And I was like, wow, Okay. So she's like here's my email. If you need a place to stay in Queensland, reach out. And I was like, okay. So she's like here's my email. If you need a place to stay in Queensland, reach out. And I was like, okay. So I kept her, I kept her contact info.
Speaker 2:A few weeks later I was in Brisbane, didn't know what my next step was going to be. I ended up reaching out to her and I ended up staying with her parents, Fran and Alan, down in the Koolangatta area just south of Surfer's Paradise, for about a week. They hosted me for a whole week and it was such a beautiful experience that, like God, you know, just brings people into your life like, especially as a solo woman traveler. I think that solo women they like people just come out of the word, work to help you and support you and it was like such a beautiful experience to be hosted by complete strangers. And it was really one of beautiful experience to be hosted by complete strangers and it was really one of the most inspirational points that helped me really inspire me to create her house.
Speaker 1:Yes, yes, I know that's important. You know, just in general, the whole safety thing and where you stay plays a huge part into that. You know, sometimes I know I run into the fact where you know I try to book something online and you know, maybe it's not in the greatest place, right, and you know. Or you know you got to share if you're in a hostel, you got to share, you know, a bunk bed room with other people that you don't know, and you know it can be a little unnerving. So it's amazing that you have.
Speaker 1:You found people along the way that helped reach out to you and helped you in that avenue, and that you know we'll talk a little bit more, maybe at the end, but I just, I really truly love your concept for her house and we'll talk about that a little later, but definitely is a need out there for us women, solo travelers, for sure. I want to talk just a little bit about, too, what I found very amazing is, without experience and without, like you know, telling the whole story, but you did spend some time on boats while you were over there. I don't have any experience with boats. I don't think you did either before you did this. So how did that? Well, I guess, how did you learn like to cause? I know you were actually having to do a lot of the work on the boat. You weren't just a passenger, you were actually doing some of the manual labor.
Speaker 2:I mean, how did you learn all that while you were there? So how it came up? So I was actually living in the Gold Coast, I had a working holiday visa so I could get legal, I could work legally and earn money in Australia while I was over there.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I was wondering that too. Yeah, I had a special visa that allowed me to do that. So I was actually bartending. I was bartending at a five-star restaurant in the Gold Coast and I got a flat. So I was like creating a whole new life in Australia and it was like amazing and I loved it.
Speaker 2:But the thing was is that I remember this one day I was like walking to the grocery store because I didn't have a car or anything. So I was like walking to the grocery store and I was like, okay, I get up at like 11, 12 and I hang out for a little bit, I go to the restaurant and I bartend all night and I go to bed at like two or three in the morning. And I was just like this is exactly what I was doing in Texas. But I'm doing the exact. I'm like living the exact same life that I was living in Texas, in Australia, and I'm like what am I doing?
Speaker 2:And that's that's what really hit me, that I was like I came to the other side of the world to live the exact same life that I was living in Texas. I'm like, no, I need to do something like totally different. And so, before I had gotten that flat. I was living in hostels for a while, like when I wasn't like staying with hosts and stuff. I was like living in hostels here and there and a lot of times I'll have like job boards on hostels because backpackers are always work.
Speaker 2:And it said I saw one that said, because backpackers are always work, and it said I saw one that said yacht crew wanted no experience necessary. So I was like, oh, that sounds cool, right, so I take the number and I keep it in my backpack and I kept it I happen to still have this number and so I call this guy and he's like, yeah, you know, we're heading. It's just this dude is this old guy who is what they need to do is they need to take their yachts from the Gold Coast area up to Airlie Beach, so, like because of their cyclone season, so they're needing to take all of their yachts up north for the cyclone season and so like, well, we're leaving to um head north like around the end of may. So if you want to come, uh, you know let's go.
Speaker 2:So I went out to go see his boat and it was a. It's a 35 foot monohull, so it's technically a yacht, um, but it's not like a mega yacht or anything like that. They're like smaller yachts and stuff that have, like you know, of course, like sleeping quarters and stuff like underneath and stuff. And so I had a few lessons with him. He took me out and taught me how to turn the yacht and how to do stuff. I can't remember now it's been so long since I like I knew all those terms like what every, all the ropes were called and stuff like that but he kind of like taught me how to do it. And then it was me, him, and then another Australian woman and we just started sailing and I stayed on their yacht for about two weeks and then I started yacht hopping about two weeks and then I started yacht hopping. So yeah, I call it extreme hitchhiking Like I would never hit, like but I like ended up getting on yachts with people like this is substantially more dangerous than getting in a car.
Speaker 1:People when I was reading your book about that, I was like holy cow, like I, just I, I couldn't imagine doing that. Honestly, I think that was so courageous, I mean, and I like how you came to the realization that, hey, I want to do something completely different than what I was doing back in the States. And why not? Right, you were trying to create this new life, so to speak, or just you know, this new experience for yourself. Right, get yourself out of that comfort zone, because you know bartending was comfortable for you. Right, because you've done it before.
Speaker 1:Right, so here's something completely new and I'll be completely honest, I don't think, maybe when I was in my twenties when, like you were, but I'm in my fifties and I I don't, you know, I feel like there's many of us that are older, that I'm not saying there aren't. There aren't older ladies out there that wouldn't jump on that type of opportunity where you have to learn a new skill, which I think is admirable, really I would. I mean that is a huge, huge thing, but that's quite an adventure. I mean that's that's huge, to to actually learn something completely new and, like you said, do some dangerous hitchhiking. You know, it's crazy.
Speaker 1:It's exciting, though, right Wasn't it?
Speaker 2:exciting it was. It was so exciting Just like the adventure of a lifetime. And I really, you know, I was telling when I was like working at the bar and I was like, oh yeah, so I'm going to go sail up to the Whitsunday Islands, like just like nonchalantly, and they like stopped and like do you know that Aussies like go their whole lives wanting to do this and never doing this? Like what you're doing is like a once in a lifetime opportunity and so so, because I really like thought about just like staying and because I was finally like getting money again and and having some stability, but I think, like what I really learned from that is like when opportunities present themselves, you have to go for it, because otherwise, like these opportunities may pass you by and you'll you'll never get them.
Speaker 1:So, yeah, that's probably my biggest takeaway from this, yeah, and, like you said, the area that you were cruising or you know yachting, I mean it's remarkable. I mean, like you said, I mean that is going on. That type of trip is a trip of a lifetime, honestly, and I'm just a little jealous that you did it a lifetime honestly and I'm just a little jealous that you did it. So you did that for a while and I know that you came to a point where, well, your original goal was to be gone a whole year, Correct.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I had a year long visa, year-long visa, um.
Speaker 2:But I think you got to a point where you discovered that it was time, um, tell us a little bit about how that came about and really you know how you knew it was the right time to leave yeah, you know, cheryl, it's interesting because, like when you're long-term solo traveling what I did like you'll get homesick and really uncomfortable, like all throughout the journey and you'll go through days when you're like I don't want to do this anymore, I just want to go home and I want to go where, like, things are comfortable again and because you're obviously like completely out of your comfort zone for an extended period of time and it can be like a lot on you, like mentally and physically.
Speaker 1:On a daily basis too.
Speaker 2:It is, it is, yeah, so like if you deal with homesickness like that's totally normal, like when you're solo traveling, and I would go through like bouts of it and then it would kind of go away and then I would like start to feel better again and excited about the journey again. But what happened during, like those weeks leading up to me finally making that decision to stop my trip early, is that sensation of like I feel like I'm done, like this season is closing, like I'm done Like this this season is closing. And I remember I was at the Marina in Airlie Beach, just like watching the boats and watching these people with their family and I just like continued to feel alone and it was like a switch, like flipped in my head. I was like I was of switch, like flipped in my head. I was like I was. I was like done. I was done Like I didn't have this, like longing, needing to leave and to adventure, like I was ready to go home, and so that kind of happened and then and then I went out cruising for a little bit longer after that happened and it just never went away.
Speaker 2:I was just like ready to go home and a lot of it had to do with well, he was my boyfriend at the time but my now husband. Like it's you know, it's a love story in the end of it Like my book is a love story too and I was just like ready, ready to go home and ready to be with him. So I think it's just something that happens in your heart, like you'll know, in your heart when it's time to go home and it feels different from just being homesick. It's hard to explain.
Speaker 1:Yeah, Like well, would you say. You definitely had a piece about your decision to go home.
Speaker 2:Yeah, definitely I felt. I felt like ready to just head home and I didn't feel the gnawing need to leave, cause, like before, before I had that epiphany, before I had that experience, I just had this desire to leave and to go somewhere and just just to adventure, and that's all I cared about and that's just like where I was at, just in my journey and in my life. And then all of a sudden it stopped and I was like ready to go.
Speaker 1:I like how you also gave yourself grace that you weren't being so hard on yourself that, oh my gosh, I committed to a year and now I'm like not making the year and you know like we set these goals and we can, you know, hold ourselves to them. Maybe not in the right way, meaning that you know it's all for the wrong reasons. I should say Right, but it sounds like you gave yourself that grace and you had a piece about you know finishing, you know being done a little earlier than you had anticipated. So I think that's, I think that's also just part of of of travel in general. You know just, you know making sure that you are flexible and you are, you know, like you said, following the adventure, maybe, or or knowing when it's time to leave or time to move on to another place. So I appreciate that insight there. How did you? Yeah?
Speaker 2:go ahead. No, I was just gonna say like, I think that, like, as a solo traveler, you really get to know yourself on a deeper level than than you've ever had before in your life, and so you really get to know what you truly want in your heart and you know how to decipher it and you get really good at making decisions. Because before I went to solo travel, I always felt like I needed to ask everyone's opinion in order to make a decision. Right, I would ask my mom, my dad, my boyfriend, you know, my brother, you know. I would ask people what they thought, and I went through things that I talk about this in my book how there are things that I was going through that no one else could understand, like when I was like getting on different yachts and and I like was trying to explain the situation. But the thing is is like no one, no one could give me insight on what to do.
Speaker 2:No one had done what I'd done, no one had felt what I felt. No one has seen what I seen. Like I had me so much beyond that specific trip, Like being able to make your own decisions, know in your heart what you want and then be able to go for it has served me tremendously throughout my professional life even.
Speaker 1:Yes, absolutely, I totally agree and I think, like you said, solo travel it really gives you those skills I should say right To, like you said, understand yourself, make decisions, be self-reliant, I mean all these things that can, like you said, carry over into everyday life. So, absolutely, that's why I'm a big encourager, advocate of solo travel, because there's so much you can, like you said, you can learn about yourself while you are solo traveling. How did you handle the homesickness and the loneliness? What were some things that you did to combat that while you were gone?
Speaker 2:So I think that, as I was solo traveling, I needed to anchor myself in some kind of comfort, because you're just or you're uncomfortable, like all the time, right.
Speaker 2:So, there's a couple of things that I actually carried with me while I was solo traveling. One of them was a pair, a pair of like fuzzy socks with like grippies on the bottom of them that acted kind of like slippers and, um, I would wear them. Like in my hostel, in my post home, I would wear them. You know, it was something that was able to give me comfort when I felt so far away from home. Another thing that I carried with me when I was living in the Gold Coast I had gotten you know a flat and I got sheets for a bed. Had gotten you know a flat and I got sheets for a bed, and I remember when I was about to leave and go sailing, I had to leave the sheets behind and I literally like broke down before, like I was like holding these sheets and like hugging these like sheets, cause they're like really soft.
Speaker 1:Like they were, like like flannel sheets.
Speaker 2:I love, I love flannel sheets and and I was just like I was like crying because I was, I didn't want to leave my sheets. I was like I come all the way to the other side of the world. I've left my boyfriend and my parents and everything in my whole life and this is my breaking point like sheets, like how, what in the world, and I think it was just like. Like sheets, like how, what in the world?
Speaker 2:and I think it was just like it gave me comfort, yeah, when I was so uncomfortable for so long, and so what I did is I I kept my pillowcase, so I I brought that pillowcase with me, like on the boats and you know, I think. I don't know if I might still even have that pillowcase today.
Speaker 2:Um, because I think that we need to like have these little items of comfort, like while we're so far away from home that we can like hold and find yeah, just like find comfort in. I think that having something like that was is really really good like items to carry that are not like heavy.
Speaker 1:I agree. I mean I get the sheet thing because I do a lot of house sitting and I actually take my own sheets with me.
Speaker 1:I just, it's just, I like my sheets, like I, you know, just want to know that I'm going to be comfortable when I sleep. So I get that. But I have heard from other mostly nomads, you know, people that are long-term traveling and they might be somewhere, you know, a few months here, a few months there that they do the same thing. They have their comfort items that they whatever it may be for them that they bring with them, you know, whether it's like a picture frame or a trinket or something that just makes them feel more connected to home, and I love that. So, no judgment, I think that's a great idea actually. So if someone is, you know, considering some of that long term travel, you know, take some sort of comfort from home with you. I love that. What about some other tips, maybe for solo women travelers? I know there's a lot, I'm sure you have a lot that you could share, but what would be one golden nugget that would apply to, I guess, any age of a solo women traveler? What are your thoughts?
Speaker 2:Yeah, well, I think solo traveling spans all generations.
Speaker 2:I know we have ladies in her house that are in their twenties, like me, but then we have like retirees, like 60 plus, who are, you know, empty nesters or widows, and they are ready there, they want to continue living life, and so, um, it spans all generations.
Speaker 2:Um, I think I think one of the really magical things and tips that I have for women who are wanting to solo travel is to somehow find community in, like, upcoming locations before you get there, and that's like what we're building inside of her house is to help facilitate those types of connections so that you can have friends, hopefully have hosts, in the upcoming city or country of wherever you're going, so you have not only potentially a safe place to stay, but you have a friend who can probably introduce you to her network, and then you can continue to start networking and finding friends throughout the area, because being able to connect with locals is a really, really special way to solo travel. You're able to, uh, really immerse yourself in a culture um, that, like you can't get, staying in a hotel, you know you just can't get that fully.
Speaker 2:So, um like and I know that the majority of ladies who are in her house and who want to connect with others, they want that type of immersive, um, a solo travel experience. So that's one thing that I would really recommend doing, whether you do it in her house or if you just like, work within your like, your personal network, do everything you can to like find people in. Yeah.
Speaker 1:Well, and, like you said, I think that also prevents solo travelers from feeling lonely, you know, or or finding themselves sitting in their hotel at night with nothing to do, right, so it's a great way. I like that you said. You specifically said to connect before you go, because I think that's been the downfall. I've tried to do is to do it once I've gotten there, and I can say probably haven't been as successful as if I probably had done some pre-work, you know, before I got to my destination, on trying to find communities before I got there. So out of your travels, with this long-term trip you did to Australia, came this idea of her house, and so you just talked a little bit about what you guys do. If you want to share a little bit more and then I know you have an app coming out for it or it is kind of out in beta testing, right, but go ahead, share about it. I'm excited because I love the idea.
Speaker 2:No, it's so exciting, cheryl, so it's called HerHouse all one word HerHouse and we bring solo women travelers together so that we can host each other and find free accommodation all over the world. And so it's more than just finding free accommodation. It's really a community of women who get it. They understand your desire to solo travel and they want to encourage you on your journey. A lot of women some women can host in her house, some women can't, but I know a lot of them are really excited to meet each other. Like that's the whole point. You know that we want to meet each other and foster relationships. And so then you're like, oh, I have this friend, like I have this friend in Japan, I have this friend in you know Florida who, like you know, we get along and you know she's going to come visit me or I'm going to go visit her.
Speaker 2:And I think, like that's really the point of it all. Like sometimes we have ladies come in who are wanting hosts in specific locations and maybe we don't have them in that exact location yet in specific locations, and maybe we don't have them in that exact location yet, but we are growing and currently we do have an app in the app store that I actually built personally with software. It's a little rough but it has worked. It does work. It is a functioning app. It's just not fabulous, but we have actually acquired, or we have, a new investor and we are now building the app professionally and so that is going to be released like mid-July, and so we're really excited about that and it's going to make like connecting with other women throughout the whole world easier than ever. Connecting on different likes, like if you like someone or if someone is into hiking and kayaking or going to antique stores or something like that. You know, it's going to help facilitate those connections so that you can start like developing friendships and then going and visiting and staying with each other.
Speaker 1:And you forgot to mention cause. I know safety is a bit of a concern for women. That part of your process for her house which I really appreciate is that you will background check um people to make sure. So I think that's a great, you know, security measure for people that maybe you know want to make sure who they're staying with they're going to feel safe there.
Speaker 2:So Absolutely yeah. We have background checks for all members inside of her house. Whether you know you're a host or a traveler, you know if you're a member in her house then you'll have a background check so you can feel comfortable. If someone reaches out to you in the her house community, you know that she's been background checked and verified. So that always makes us feel a lot better. I know we're all scared.
Speaker 1:I mean it's like a reoccurring theme that we're all like nervous about solo traveling and so us all coming together, I think, will continue to help keep us safer.
Speaker 1:I agree, I agree and I love the community aspect of it. So it's not just because there are some other whether it's Facebook communities or things like that that people you know like host, a sister kind of thing, but they're not vetted and typically those kind of setups they're not. You know, besides not being vetted, it's mostly it's not about community Cause it's just like I just want a free place to stay, kind of idea is usually what I'm sensing from those groups. So I love the community idea and I I mean I would love it, because when I get to a place, I don't know the place, like that person does, that lives there and they are probably, they have some hidden gems in their back pocket, I'm sure, or less known places that they can, you know, expose you to as a traveler. So I do love that and we'll keep, I'll keep helping you plug it here as best I can. But you also have, if you want to hear the rest of Tessa's story she did write a book about it, her hitchhiking I got my extreme hitchhiking.
Speaker 1:So you can get that on Amazon. It's called Sherbet Skies and it's available on Amazon. That's where I got my copy, so I'm sure it's.
Speaker 2:Indeed, yeah, okay. Yeah, I am needing to record it for audible. I've just had so much on my plate with the business. But that is on my list recorded for audible.
Speaker 1:That would be fun Cause I I love audible books, you know when I'm driving, and stuff like that but, still, it was a wonderful read, so I don't. I didn't have a hard time reading it, you know, I know, but I'm an avid reader, so Well, I appreciate that.
Speaker 2:Thank you so much for those kind words. It was such a joy to write and I hope that people that do read my book like can really feel that like it wasn't a hard process for me. It was literally a joy to write that book and to relive the days of like sailing up the Australian coastline and that I hope it, you know, inspires you and excites you and helps you meet God in a new way. That God's going to meet you on your journey and like, no matter how far you go, like you could be like on a boat in the middle of the ocean and like he's going to meet you there and like it's going to be great. So that's something that I would, that I really learned in the process yes, I love that.
Speaker 1:Yeah, because he is everywhere, so, and I love that he was guiding you along the way too, so that's really inspirational, definitely. Well, tess, it's been a pleasure and I can feel that we're probably going to connect again at some point in the future and, like you said, we got this small community travel. We'll find each other again, but I appreciate you being here and all the inspiration you have provided and your amazing app that's coming out Her House, so we'll keep tabs on that and thank you again for your time. I loved it.
Speaker 2:Thank you so much, Cheryl. I really appreciate it. You guys have a good one.
Speaker 1:Well, sister travelers, I hope you enjoyed the conversation I had with Tess. I loved it and I can't wait till I can meet her I'm hoping soon in person, but if you want to get in on this her house opportunity, please go to her website at herhouseco, and she has three types of memberships for you to choose from. You can do a month to month, there's a six month option and even an annual year membership, and you could also become a host as well, and so go to the website to get more information and to get signed up so we can build this community and we can start to come visit each other in different parts of the world. Sister Travelers, get out there and have that adventure.
