'Growing up, we actually didn’t travel much, besides our bi-annual road trip to Virginia Beach, which is about six hours away from Philadelphia. I grew up in a blended family of eight, my mom has four children, my stepfather has four children, so we couldn’t really afford to travel far and often.
My first impressions of travel came from the media. On television, it only appeared that rich people were travelling, and they were always nonblack families. Another about a family who during the holidays, travelled to places like Paris and New York. Those were places we could only dream of. I remember my sister and I always saying, ‘Oh, they must have a lot of money'.
