Qs I get asked in airports

Puerto Escondido to Tijuana, Feb 2023

Hi, team.

Roughly since The World Reopened Again, I’ve been fielding questions in airports. (If you follow my movements on Instagram even loosely, you already know where this is headed.)

The process is very simple: I take a Stories photo of my packed suitcase, or perhaps of the blurred view out a taxi window, I adorn it with that ever-so-cheerful AMA bubble, and I hit post.

Looks pretty much like this.

And, then, I wait for whatever comes back on the other side.

Outside of my Selfish Advice column, it’s the only place where I solicit questions. It’s the only time when I solicit questions. It’s a travel ritual that I’ve created for myself and I absolutely adore it.

I texted my literary agent on Friday and I was like “Questions I Get Asked In Airports: (life musings for when you’re killing time)” ????

It was a Friday, so she didn’t respond, but I figured: look, I might as well transcribe them for all of us here. They don’t live anywhere right now outside of the data archive in my own Instagram at the minute.

And I like the way I answer them, these questions. There’s something a little vulnerable and wistful about the way you think when you’re sitting alone in an airport. You know?

So, without further ado, start expecting an incoming Airport Question post every once in a while. Those posts will live here, alongside the Selfish Advice archive.

Let’s begin.

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