Celebrity Trave: Go away with Rain Perry
A: As a snobby drama geek, I made the mistake of studying French in high school. For a Southern California girl, it would’ve been much more useful to learn Spanish. Now I speak a little Spanish and a little French and I have learned that I’m quick to pick up the essentials of other languages when I travel. I do aspire to become fully fluent in Spanish. I’m working on it.
Q: What are your five favorite cities?
A: New York City, Austin, San Francisco, Venice and Ho Chi Minh City.
Q: Where have you traveled to that most reminded you of home?
A: The Patagonia region of Chile and Argentina looks so much like California, and the unpaved roads that wind through giant Estancias make it easy to blur your eyes and imagine California in the Rancho days.
Q: When you go away, what are some of your must-have items?
A: Oh, I have lists! I’m a total packing nerd and try to be as minimalist as possible. Aside from the usual essentials, I have to have my knitting, and my Moleskine notebooks and my fancy Uniball pens.
Q: What would be your dream trip?
A: It’s not a trip per se, but I dream of having the opportunity to spend a month or more living and working in New York. That’s a life goal, frankly, and I’m doing my best to make it part of my strategy for the project I’m working on.
Q: What is your guilty pleasure when you're on the road?
A: Yarn stores. I’ve visited them in every quadrant of the world. Yarn from far-off places is the souvenir I give myself.
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