LA: What’s your sport plan if you go in?
KM: So I attempt to go early within the morning, the minute they open, and I attempt to not go on a weekend as a result of it will get too packed, it is too chaotic. There’s 1 / 4 million individuals multi functional place, often on the weekends. It will get very, very crowded. And then I simply have my favourite sections that I do know I prefer to go to. Everyone has totally different favourite sections. Some individuals wish to go to Machinery Hill and simply take a look at all of the machines. I do not wish to go to Machinery Hill. I do not actually care about that. But I do wish to go and see all the individuals doing shows of various dwelling enchancment merchandise. I wish to see the individual displaying me how absorbent their Shamwow is. “Ma’am, would you like to see how absorbent this is?”
“Yes, I would. I would like to see that.”
“I’m going to spill a cup of coffee right here on this rug, and I’m going to show you how fast this picks up this coffee.”
And I like saying that, I wish to see the seed artwork. I do know the various things I wish to see. So I counsel go in with a sport plan. And in case you are with sure associates who you already know they wish to go to the house economics shows and you wish to see the child animals, have a meetup spot. You do not should do every little thing collectively on a regular basis, however prioritize what you wish to see since you may get exhausted sooner than you suppose and then wrap it up and name the day when you’re glad. Don’t keep till you are overheated and overly drained.
LA: Are there every other state festivals that you’re obsessive about or that you just actually wish to go to?
KM: Well, individuals all the time inform me I ought to go to the Texas State Fair as a result of Texas likes to say that their honest is bigger than the Minnesota State Fair.
LA: Very Texas.
KM: And they are saying that as a result of they get… There’s a barely greater variety of guests yearly to their state honest the Minnesota does, however I do not suppose that is honest as a result of their state honest lasts twice so long as Minnesota. But I’ll say I do like to go to little county festivals.
LA: Actually, Kristen, I used to be going to ask, we have been speaking about all of the journeys that you’ve performed not too long ago, however is there wherever that you’ve your eye on that has plenty of human tales and historical past that you just could be going to subsequent?
KM: Yes. So one journey I dream of taking is the Prince Edward Island Track. So Prince Edward Island has a strolling observe that goes across the whole perimeter of it. And there are totally different sections of the stroll you are able to do. Some that go inland, some which can be solely to see lighthouses. There’s one part of the stroll that’s only for Anne of Green Gables followers, the place you possibly can go to the Lucy Maud Montgomery House. You can see numerous websites the place Anne of Green Gables supposedly did this or did that in her books. And the stroll, I consider can take as much as seven days in case you’re doing shorter sections. But in case you are a extra lengthy walker like me, you are able to do the entire stroll, I feel in three to 4 days and each night time, stroll from one village to the subsequent. Stay in an inn, drink some cordial or no matter it’s that Anne of Green Gables would drink, eat some sandwiches, have a picnic, spend the night time within the inn and then get up the subsequent morning and go to the subsequent spot.
LA: Oh, that sounds magical.
If individuals wish to observe together with you, if you hopefully embark on this journey and hear your tales, discover your podcasts, simply observe your work, the place is the perfect place for them to go on the web?
KM: Well, you possibly can go to my web site, kristenmeinzer.com, that is Okay-R-I-S-T-E-N-M-E-I-N-Z-E-R.com. Kristenmeinzer.com, or you possibly can observe me on Instagram. My deal with is @k10meinzer. So these are the 2 finest locations.
LA: Oh, that was so enjoyable.
KM: That was so enjoyable. You guys make it really easy. Thank you a lot.
LA: God, you make it really easy.
KM: Oh, what a pleasure.
LA: Thank you for listening to Women Who Travel. I’m Lale, and you will discover me on Instagram @lalehannah. Our engineer is Pran Bandi. And particular because of Jake Lummus for engineering assist. Our present is blended by Amar Lal at Macro Sound. Jude Kampfner is our producer, Stephanie Kariuki our government producer, and Chris Bannon is head of Condé Nast Global Audio.