Hometown: Derry/Portsmouth/Newcastle
Profession: Television personality, host for the Travel Channel Latest Project: A travel show for the masses: “Passport to Great Weekends”
Synopsis: Brown returned to her native New Hampshire to show off local breweries, ski areas and the Seacoast. In a segment now airing on the Travel Channel, she meets up with her family in Portsmouth to brag about the region’s gems.
Question: Fans of your show have called you a “peppy little ball of sunshine.” How do you stay so happy while on the road?
Answer: Well, I travel about 230 days in a year, so it’s pretty intense. What motivates me is simply just meeting people. I actually care less about monuments, museums and historical points of interest and I’m more just fascinated by people, their stories and what motivates them. And I really find that when people miss out on that, they are really missing out on the travel experience and why we travel. What’s great is that I can do that in China or I can do it in New Hampshire and it's always a discovery.
Q: If you weren’t working and you could go on vacation with your husband, where would you go?
A: Home! I would go to Brooklyn, even for my honeymoon we basically stayed home. But there are so many places I want to see. The more you travel, the more you get hooked. The list doesn’t get smaller, it just gets bigger. My number one place would be Japan, I would love to go to Japan.
Q: What’s the most unusual thing you’ve seen at a hotel in all your travels?
A: I would guess one of those computerized toilets, sort of out of a sci- fi movie. It’s a toilet that’s got all these buttons to give you warm water, should you want it, heat the seat, or create a vibrating sensation on the seat cover. That was, to me, pretty amazing. I saw that in a hotel in Washington D.C., and just jokingly remarked that it was the true seat of government.
Q: What’s an important tip you can offer women when they travel?
A: Whenever I pull into a city, especially foreign cities, I always go off for a jog or a walk. Before I leave, I always go to the front desk and say ‘I’m leaving,’ just so they see me leave and make a note of it. You just want someone to know that you have left and you might not have made it back in time.
Q: What’s it like when the cameras aren’t on? You must have some wild parties?
A: We’ll have 12 or 14 hours a day where we don’t stop. We’ll stop to have coffee or lunch, but it’s just constant, so we are always working. Even if I’m not on camera, the cameraman is getting B-roll, just getting shots of other people. But, no, it’s constant until quitting time and then we all just go to bed.
