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JUMP with Traveling Jackie · Wednesday, September 16, 2026

Nostalgic Reflections on Study Abroad: A Friendship Endures Two Decades

During a podcast reunion, Jackie and Kristen Muir reminisced about their time as 20-year-old study abroad students in Italy. They shared how their friendship has lasted for two decades, highlighting the enduring impact of their shared experience.

personKristen Muir

The tape

2 quotes
“We are back together today to reconnect and just share about our experience of studying abroad in Italy and how it has influenced our lives and where we've been since then and, you know, since we were 20. And also, while we're still in touch 20 years later.”
Traveling Jackie
“Yeah, you were there way before. Um, okay, so actually, we're going to do this. Let's do this. Let's take a walk down memory lane because, um, I feel like we maybe should set the stage a little bit for what, what was, I mean, it was 2005, first of all. And now it's 2026. This is like 21 years.”
Kristen Muir
Heard on JUMP with Traveling Jackie — “The Study Abroad Trip That Changed Everything with Kristen Muir (JUMP 219)”, published Wednesday, September 16, 2026. Heardvine summarizes and quotes with attribution and timestamps, and links to the original everywhere.
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Nostalgic Reflections on Study Abroad: A Friendship Endures Two Decades — Heardvine