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Celebrity Travel: Go Away With Andrea Navedo

By Jae-Ha Kim, Tribune Content Agency on

Andrea Navedo is bicoastal these days. She works in Los Angeles, where she portrays Xiomara Villanueva on the CW series "Jane the Virgin," but every two weeks, she flies home to New York to spend time with her husband and children. "My kids are 10 and 7 now and I would love to travel with them more," says Navedo, who also stars in the film "Superfast" -- a spoof of the "Fast and the Furious" franchise. "I took my daughter to Puerto Rico with me when I was filming a movie with Jennifer Lopez. She was 18 months old at the time. But I haven't taken my kids out of the country yet. I would love for them to broaden their horizons."

Fans may follow Navedo on Twitter at https://twitter.com/AndreaNavedo.

Q. Did you travel much when you were a child?

A. When I was 11, I went to Puerto Rico for a month to stay with my grandmother. To see the way people lived there and experience my own culture was wonderful. It helped give me insight into my own cultural identity. I remember that the food and coffee there was amazing. I love Yaucono coffee. That is so good!

Q. You had coffee at 11?

A. (Laughs) Yes. My father's family in Puerto Rico had a farm where they grew all kinds of beans. They grew coffee beans, too. My grandmother's brother had all these burlap sacks filled with coffee beans and I had that experience of opening that bag and smelling the fresh beans. My grandmother asked if I wanted a cup of coffee. I said yes. And she said we are going to make the coffee. We went and got the beans from the sack that had already been peeled, laid the beans outside in the sun for five hours -- turning them every 30 minutes. Toward the end, she would crack open a bean to see if they were ready. Finally, she told me to get the old-fashioned wooden coffee grinder that my father had packed for me to bring on the trip. I ground the coffee beans myself. And then she made me the most amazing cup of coffee I ever had in my entire life. It was our family coffee and that meant so much to me.

 

Q. What do you bring with you on your flights?

A. A blanket, ear plugs and a pillow for my lower back.

Q. Where do you want to go to next?

A. Costa Rica. I would love to attend one of the Spanish schools there and just study.

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