We had a busy summer at the podcast and at The Wandering Scholar, despite the unusual circumstances surrounding all of us right now. Normally we’d be giving you updates from our students about their trips abroad with one of our travel partners, but obviously that wasn’t possible for us this year. And so we had to get creative. 

In place of our usual program, we launched a new storytelling initiative for travel-loving and travel-curious high-school and college students. Whether they had a passport already dotted with stamps or they were yet to embark on their first international flight, we asked young people to tell us “Why I Wander.” One such young person was a student named Laniyah.

While working on this episode with Laniyah, we got to witness how something as intuitive as asking a set of questions can lead to a meaningful personal narrative. Whether you’re also a student, traveler, storyteller, or all of the above, it’s an important lesson in seeing what happens when we remain curious about where we come from, where we currently find ourselves, and where we feel drawn to go.