The first time Enrique Alex Garde, a travel influencer based in Madrid, went to Mexico, the trip was a bust. “I was so overwhelmed, I couldn’t wait to get out of there,” he said on a recent video call. “And then, when I returned, I fell in love.”
Mr. Garde, 38, is hardly the first traveler to rediscover a place. On a series of video calls last month, travel content creators spoke about the destinations they would most like to return to and why.
Eleanor Hamby and Dr. Sandra Hazelip took their first trip together, from Moscow to Beijing by train, in 2008. Since then, the 84-year-old best friends from Texas have visited 44 countries together. In 2023, the women embarked on an around-the-world voyage that inspired a book, “Here We Go: Lessons for Living Fearlessly from Two Traveling Nanas,” published in September by an imprint of Penguin Random House.
“There are three things that stand out to us when we travel,” Ms. Hamby said. “Number one, the people we meet — it doesn’t matter who you are, your political views, what country you’re from. The second thing is the beauty of the world, God’s creation. And the third is the beauty of what man has made.”
Travel Influencers Share Destinations So Good That They Returned
