Doug Melville sits down with Angelique Chamberlain, a Los Angeles Times Magazine travel contributor and telecom executive who has traveled to 108 countries across all seven continents. She traces her love of travel back to family trips growing up and a formative gap year at UCLA, and explains how those early experiences shaped her taste for aspirational, luxury travel later in life.
The conversation turns to solo travel — why Angelique prefers going it alone, why the trend keeps growing, and the safety habits she relies on along the way. She shares some of her most memorable stops, including a stay at Kenya’s Giraffe Manor, and what makes a destination worth the trip.
Angelique also walks through her “Passport University” concept — treating travel itself as a form of education outside the traditional classroom — and shares her broader goal of inspiring more people to see the world for themselves.