In this episode we discuss some of the recent travel related news we found interesting or relevant over the month of October. We break down our favorite different news articles, including:
Scott Lite: Touring the Amazon Jungle
Amanda and Ryan: Digital Nomad Lifestyle
Mag Dimond: Author of Bowing to Elephants
Rolf Potts’ adventures have taken him across six continents, and include piloting a fishing boat 900 miles down the Laotian Mekong, hitchhiking across Eastern Europe, traversing Israel on foot, bicycling across Burma, driving a Land Rover across South America, and traveling around the world for six weeks with no luggage or bags of any kind. Rolf is perhaps best known for promoting the ethic of independent travel, and his book on the subject, Vagabonding: An Uncommon Guide to the Art of Long-Term World Travel, which has been through thirty-two printings and translated into several foreign languages.
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Jules and Christine run the blog @Don'tforgettomove and podcast @notsobonvoyage which discuss ethical/sustainable tourism and when sh*t goes wrong on the road, respectively. They joined us on our podcast this week to discuss voluntourism and of course, travel horror stories!
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Keshler Thibert is a Philadelphia native and member of Association of Philadelphia Tour Guides, a member of the Historical Society of Pennsylvania, and a contributing writer with Hidden Philadelphia. Today we talked about the tours he offers in Philadelphia, general Philadelphia history, and of course FOOD!
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To book a tour with Keshler: https://thetravelersblueprint.com/ttb-tour-guides
Website: http://www.lecanardtourism.com/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/lecanardtourism
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/lecanardtourism/
Blog: https://lecanardtourism.silvrback.com
In this episode we discuss some of the recent travel related news we found interesting or relevant over the month of September. We break down our favorite different news articles, including:
Keshler Thibert: The Philly Tour Guide
Jules and Christine: Travel disaster stories and Voluntourism
Rolf Potts: The author of the wildly popular travel guide Vagabonding
Mark Watson is a New Zealand-based photographer and author specializing in landscape, adventure and travel photography. Mark spent four years cycling from Deadhorse, Alaska to Ushuaia, Argentina, a distance of 28,000 miles (46k km) linking together bikepacking routes and researching his own way into the culturally diverse towns and environments of the Americas.
Inside the Episode
www.highlux.co.nz (Main site)
www.highlux.co.nz/blog (blog)
www.highlux.co.nz/alaska-to-argentina (The Americas bike
journey)
Instagram:
https://www.instagram.com/highluxphoto/
Hana: https://www.instagram.com/beinghana/
20 minute film: 'Inca Roads' https://www.highlux.co.nz/2019/06/inca-roads-from-the-andes-to-the-amazon-video/
Justin Jones is one of the premier motivational speakers and extreme adventurers in the world. In our conversation today, Justin discussed how he completed the first unsupported kayak expedition from Australia to New Zealand (62 days, 3318 km/ 2075 mi), the first unsupported expedition from the coast of Antarctica to the South Pole and back (89 days, 2285 km/1430 mi) and a 1800km/1125 mi trek across the Australian Outback with a one year old (102 days).
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He was trained as an herbalist at the Appalachia School of Holistic Herbalism in September 2011. Scott is an associate of the Botanical Preservation Corps and was on the 2010 expedition to Peru collecting seeds and information on medicinal, edible, and sacred plants throughout the Andes. In 2010 Scott opened the Ethnobotanical Conservation Organization or EthnoCO which is a company based in Peru that leads expeditions and sells cultural wares.
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In this episode we discuss some of the recent travel related news we found interesting or relevant over the month of August. We break down our favorite different news articles, including:
Scott Lite - Animals that are used as drugs and animals that use drugs
Justin Jonsey - The first unsupported hike across Antarctica and kayaking the Tasman Sea
Mark Watson - A 28,000 mile bicycle journey from Alaska to Patagonia
Michael Hilliard has been involved in journalism since 2010, working and reporting from countries ranging from Iran, Russia, Ukraine, Kyrgyzstan, China, Belarus and many more. He has broken front page news a number of times, and has worked with sources ranging from the White House to the Taliban.
He is regularly called upon as an informed source for various publications and also serves on various committees and councils for the Australian government. Michael is also the host of Australia's largest geopolitics show The Red Line, which has gone on to be streamed 400,000 times in over 86 countries.
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Website: https://www.theredlinepodcast.com/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/theredlinepod/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/mikethespelingexpert/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/TheRedLinePod
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