Celebrity Travel: Go away with Florence Dore
Q: What are your five favorite cities?
A: So far Nashville, New Orleans, London, Chapel Hill, and New York. But I am about to go to Kilkenny, Ireland, then Dublin, so we’ll see.
Q: Where would you like to go that you have never been to before?
A: Tokyo, Tuscaloosa.
Q: When you go away, what are some of your must-have items?
A: Packing cubes. On tour I also take my pillow and a hot plate. I don’t like eating road food, so I bring a cooler of healthy stuff and cook carefully in the hotel rooms.
Q: What is your guilty pleasure when you're on the road?
A: Vegan marshmallows from Whole Foods.
Q: What kind of research do you do before you go away on a trip?
A: Hotels with parking lots big enough to accommodate a trailer, safe neighborhoods near the venues, grocery stores, whether or not I have old friends in the towns, public libraries. My husband looks into museums and other cultural landmarks. I am usually too beat to check anything out. Memphis was hard because there was so much I wanted to see but I had to rest!
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