THE ESSENTIALS Shay Mitchell shares her ‘Thirst’ and tips for travel

In a new weekly series, USA TODAY’S The Essentials, celebrities share what fuels their lives.h Shay Mitchell is blending travel and alcohol to make the ultimate cocktail: her show “Thirst With Shay Mitchell.” ● The actress, 37, already cemented herself in both industries with her Béis travel accessories company and tequila brand Onda, and she’s taking it a step further with a show focused on trying different beverages around the world. ● “It’s combining both of my loves of traveling and drinking, and not even just drinking alcohol, but consuming beverages, learning more about a culture, the history (and) the people that live there through the lens of the beverages,” Mitchell says of her new Max four-episode series, which premiered May 23. ● While fans were obsessing over her character Emily Fields on “Pretty Little Liars,” she was using the breaks from filming to jet set. “When I was on a TV show in my 20s, every time we’d go on hiatus I would be taking off to a different place,” she says, modestly referring to her time on the ABC Family (now Freeform) hit from 2010 to 2017. ● Now, as a mom of two, world exploration looks different for the actress.

the consistency than I expected. … Not bad by any means, just unexpected.”

Her hangover cure

“I come home, chug a bunch of water, take two Advil liquid gels, and I have a greasy little meal before I go to bed and then I wake up perfectly fine,” she says. “If I don’t, then I order pho and spring rolls.”

She accepts traveling with children is not relaxing

Mitchell and partner Matte Babel share daughters Atlas, 4, and Rome, 2.

“I bring activities. Atlas is an avid