When Samantha Brown was employed to host a present on the Journey Channel again in 2000, she was simply glad to not be ready tables anymore. She’s been on the highway ever since, although, and 25 years later is internet hosting her personal present for PBS. Samantha Brown’s Locations to Love is about to enter its eighth season, and the present could be very a lot sculpted by the teachings Brown has discovered over a quarter-century within the sport. Specifically, she is aware of now that it’s the those who make the place.
Of the early days of her profession, Brown says, “Being on the highway 220 days out of the 12 months was simply lonely—I used to be principally taking pictures castles, monuments, and cathedrals, which simply naturally places you previously.” Lengthy walks on the finish of lengthy shoot days helped Brown find out how she actually likes to journey: instinctively, intuitively, spontaneously, and socially. “The vitality of locals doing their on a regular basis factor actually stuffed me up,” she says. “That’s why, for Locations to Love, I make certain the main target is on the individuals, neighborhoods, and locations the place you might be part of the neighborhood.”
The final time Brown sat down with us for a chat, on an episode of the Women Who Travel podcast back in 2021, she was reflecting on the 12 months prior, which she—and most of us—spent cloistered in our houses. Now that she’s decidedly again out on this planet and the cameras are rolling as soon as extra, she joined us to speak about how her viewpoint has modified, traits she’s completely known as, and extra.
At our 2024 Points of View Summit, you talked about your present method to producing Locations to Love, which entails loads of boots-on-the-ground scouting. How did you land there?
It began once I was extra of a “employed host” for The Journey Channel, and people exhibits have been actually centered on displaying you the best hits, no surprises. Identical to: What’s the place recognized for? That’s the place we’re going to take you. And that was nice. However on the finish of the day, I simply questioned, What else is there? I really felt an actual loneliness and form of disconnect with the situation, and thought, “I assume I’m actually not a traveler.”
