Learn how you can become your own Travel Agent with insight provided by travel authors, tour guides, adventurers, conservationists, and digital nomads as we, hosts’ Bob DiMenna and Elliot Shibley, interview travel enthusiasts from around the world in order to gain knowledge on all aspects of travel. From understanding how to work the Airline & credit card point system for cheaper ways to travel to discussing some of the most remarkable adventures with those who have done it, you will hear fr ...
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TTB 233: Journey Through Machu Picchu and Patagonia: An Immersive Adventure
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TTB 233: Journey Through Machu Picchu and Patagonia: An Immersive Adventure Yaneth Cisneros and Matt Waugh, expert tour guides at South Andes Travel, are renowned for crafting immersive travel experiences in Peru. Their tours emphasize authentic local interactions and extensive exploration of South America's mountains and trails. They enthusiastica…
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TTB 232: Traveling to Eastern Ukraine
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TTB 232: Traveling to Eastern Ukraine Amidst the echoes of conflict in Eastern Ukraine, traveler and Oxford scholar Harry Mitsidis brings a touch of humanity to the front lines. Through his poignant conversations with survivors, Harry—a seasoned author known for unraveling the intricate tales of a conman (The Curious Case of William Baekeland) and …
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TTB 231: October Travel Bites This month we bring you our Travel Bites episode where we break down the previous month’s travel related news that we found interesting. This month we discuss: Rival US mountaineers die in Tibet while competing An empty-nest mama bear just won Fat Bear Week Airbnb users flock to ‘underground’ listings after NYC clampdo…
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TTB 230: September Travel Bites This month we bring you our Travel Bites episode where we break down the previous month’s travel related news that we found interesting. This month we discuss: Cruise Ship Ran Aground In Greenland Huge rescue mission for US man deep in Turkey cave Jet ski tourists shot dead off coast of Algeria The End of Airbnb in N…
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TTB 229: August Travel Bites This month we bring you our Travel Bites episode where we break down the previous month’s travel related news that we found interesting. This month we discuss: United Flight Passengers Saved by Warning System Before Accidentally Plunging into the Pacific Airline close calls more common than publicly disclosed Travel Wil…
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TTB 228: My Favorite Country:; Norway
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TTB 228: My Favorite Country: Norway Michael Keating joins us this week to discuss our recent road trip through Norway. In this episode we discuss the jaw dropping natural beauty of Norway, the cultural quirks, cuisine, our road trip planning (including our mistakes), and why this country is our favorite in the world (so far)!! The Travelers Bluepr…
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TTB 227: July Travel Bites This month we bring you our Travel Bites episode where we break down the previous month’s travel related news that we found interesting. This month we discuss: Flying car gets airworthiness certificate from FAA Check out the Flight Misery Map The Case Against Travel Countries are adding regulations to reduce the dominance…
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TTB 226: June Travel Bites This month we bring you our Travel Bites episode where we break down the previous month’s travel related news that we found interesting. This month we discuss: How 4 children survived 40 days in the Amazon jungle after a plane crash FAA issues final rule requiring second cockpit door Venice’s Grand Canal Turned Bright Gre…
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TTB 225: How to Hike Through Norway Agathe Ledoux is the author of “Find Your Norway”, a book designed to provide you with all the tools you need to plan your own breathtaking trip through the mountains, fjords, and trails of the Norwegian wilderness. Today we spoke with her about her move from France to Norway, how she plans her hikes, which hikes…
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TTB 224 : May Travel Bites This month we bring you our Travel Bites episode where we break down the previous month’s travel related news that we found interesting. This month we discuss: SAD: Airline Unions Band Together, Ask Government to Ban Better Air Travel Norway's near-total adoption of electric vehicles appears to be going smoothly, defying …
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TTB 223: One Grump's Search for the Happiest Places in the World
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TTB 223: One Grump's Search for the Happiest Places in the World @EricWeinerbooks is an award-winning journalist, bestselling author, and speaker. His books include The Geography of Bliss and The Geography of Genius, as well as the spiritual memoir Man Seeks God and, his latest title, The Socrates Express. His books have been translated into more t…
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TTB 222: April Travel Bites This month we bring you our Travel Bites episode where we break down the previous month’s travel related news that we found interesting. This month we discuss: 660-mile rescue flight in Alaska Google Flights provides refunds if the airfare price drops after you book Ryanair flight forced into emergency Dublin Airport lan…
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TTB 221: March Travel Bites This month we bring you our Travel Bites episode where we break down the previous month’s travel related news that we found interesting. This month we discuss: Massive ‘Blob’ of Seaweed Heading toward Florida Pentagon UFO says alien mothership in our solar system Bali wants to ban foreigners from renting scooters Nepal’s…
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TTB 220: A Pilot’s Journey Across the Urban World
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TTB 220: A Pilot’s Journey Across the Urban World Mark Vanhoenacker is a commercial airline pilot and writer. The author of the international best seller Skyfaring: A Journey with a Pilot and How to Land a Plane, he is also a regular contributor to The New York Times and a columnist for the Financial Times. Born in Pittsfield, Massachusetts, he tra…
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TTB 219: February Travel Bites This month we bring you our Travel Bites episode where we break down the previous month’s travel related news that we found interesting. This month we discuss: Flames shoot from plane's wing as NY-bound flight makes emergency landing United plane nosedived to just 775 feet above Pacific Ocean Frontier unveils all-you-…
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TTB 218: Traveling for Enlightenment During The 1960s
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TTB 218: Traveling for Enlightenment During The 1960s Patrick O’Brien recently unveiled a memoir titled The Adventures of Kozmos Lovejoy. Kozmos sets out to discover the human potential hidden in American culture during the revolutionary spiritual renaissance of the 1960s and & 1970s. Kozmos learns at age nine to hitchhike so he doesn’t have to wal…
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TTB 217: January Travel Bites This month we bring you our Travel Bites episode where we break down the previous month’s travel related news that we found interesting. This month we discuss: Alabama airline worker killed after being 'ingested into the engine' of a plane The Cheetahs Made a Kill. Then the Safari Trucks Swarmed In Michael Bay charged …
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TTB 216: Helping You Become a Remote Worker
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TTB 216: Helping You Become a Remote Worker Eric Sutfin, founder & CMO of Zeal Remote Community, created this new platform to target the new flood of global remote workers and digital nomads. You, as a location independent employee can benefit from the in-app community based model as it offers you support from the consideration phase (like how do I…
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TTB 215: Chronicle of Paradise, Profit, and Peril at the Beach
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TTB 215: Chronicle of Paradise, Profit, and Peril at the Beach Sarah Stodola dives into the psyche of the beachgoer and gets to the heart of what drives humans to seek out the sand in her book, THE LAST RESORT: A Chronicle of Paradise, Profit, and Peril at the Beach. At the same time, she grapples with the darker realities of resort culture: strang…
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TTB 214: December Travel Bites This month we bring you our Travel Bites episode where we break down the previous month’s travel related news that we found interesting. This month we discuss: Tripadvisor's Year in Review: Unpacking all the good in 2022 EU Opens Up 5G on Planes, Making In-Flights Calls More Likely Uber Sleigh Is Bringing Reindeer Rid…
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TTB 213: Travel Book Recommendations Anshula Varma is a small town obsessed, big city girl who plans weekly travel stories and a book club on her blog, Passport To Eden! Today we discussed some of her favorite travel books! Learn More About Our Guest: https://www.instagram.com/passporttoeden/?hl=en https://www.passporttoeden.com/ SUPPORT THE PODCAS…
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TTB 212: The Most Traveled Person in the World
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TTB 212: The Most Traveled Person in the World Charles Veley is a driven traveler and entrepreneur who set a world record for land area covered, then created the online community and system of record for extreme travelers. Charles is currently ranked #1 worldwide, with 84 remote areas remaining to visit. He is the founder of mosttraveledpeople.com,…
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TTB 211: November Travel Bites This month we bring you our Travel Bites episode where we break down the previous month’s travel related news that we found interesting. This month we discuss: The cost for TSA PreCheck is dropping Taxes Make Digital Nomad Status a ‘Myth’ Gun hidden in a raw chicken at Florida TSA checkpoint Airbnb Is Getting More Tra…
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TTB 210: The Anywherist; How to Live Anywhere in the World
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TTB 210: The Anywherist; How to Live Anywhere in the World Melody Warnick, is the author of If You Could Live Anywhere, and has found from personal experience, in some ways it matters more than ever. With 46% of Americans reassessing where they lived during the pandemic being a digital nomad has never held so much value. Melody gives easy-to-unders…
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TTB 209: Investing in Real Estate While Abroad
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TTB 209: Investing in Real Estate While Abroad Sarah Weaver is a coach, speaker, real estate investor, entrepreneur, and business owner. When Sarah isn't analyzing deals, you can find her looking up her next flight. Sarah Weaver is a digital nomad, meaning she works 100% remotely from anywhere in the world and has been since 2015. She has traveled …
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This month we bring you our Travel Bites episode where we break down the previous month’s travel related news that we found interesting. This month we discuss: Saudis sentence US citizen to 16 years over tweets The Most Visited Website in Every Country The rise of sleep tourism American tourist smashes two sculptures in the Vatican TSA Screens High…
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TTB 207: Walking Wales and Ovarian Cancer Awareness
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TTB 207: Walking Wales and Ovarian Cancer Awareness Ursula Martin was just 31 years old when she went to the doctor and......BAM. Large growth, scans, blood tests, fear and uncertainty. She had ovarian cancer. Three months later, March 2012, Ursula was in follow-up treatment, feeling dazed, confused and, as the clouds cleared, very very lucky. Star…
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TTB 206: Pursuing a Family Travel Blog with a Newborn
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TTB 206: Pursuing a Family Travel Blog with a Newborn Corritta and her wife were tired of the mundane routine of fighting traffic, spending 10 hours at the office, fighting more traffic, and then returning home - only to have dinner and family time for 2 or 3 hours before having to go to bed to do it all over again. She was tired of spending more t…
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TTB 205: September Travel Bites This month we bring you our Travel Bites episode where we break down the previous month’s travel related news that we found interesting. This month we discuss: We discuss time completing the 42 mile Four State Challenge Hike Proposed legislation could affect credit card rewards in the US Newark Airport Will No Longer…
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TTB 204: How to Buy an Island Marshall Mayer is co-founder of Let's Buy an Island, the first successful crowdfunding effort to purchase a private island. A world traveler with a background in launching and investing in social-impact businesses, he is bringing his finance, non-profit, emerging markets and start-up experience to build a community-fun…
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TTB 203: Guatemala, the Land of Eternal Spring
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TTB 203: Guatemala, the Land of Eternal Spring Valerie Russel is the CEO of Due South Travels, which offers custom guided tours throughout Guatemala, at a price point that makes travel accessible to people who never imagined it was possible. A native of Nyack, New York, Val was educated in Washington, DC, and Bournemouth, England and settled down i…
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TTB 202: August Travel Bites This month we bring you our Travel Bites episode where we break down the previous month’s travel related news that we found interesting. This month we discuss: What you need to know about traveling with marijuana How AirTags led police to an alleged luggage thief at Florida airport Why It's so Important for Kids to Trav…
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TTB 201: Composing an Album on a Cross-Country Train Trip
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TTB 201: Composing an Album on a Cross-Country Train Trip Cheryl B. Engelhardt is a composer and songwriter. She’s toured all over the world, had music in over 40 tv shows and commercials, performed on stage with Sting, and was recently featured in People and Forbes for her social justice choral piece “The Listening”, featuring Martin Luther King J…
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TTB 200: Responsible, Impactful, Sustainable, Ethical Travel
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TTB 200: Responsible, Impactful, Sustainable, Ethical Travel Vincie Ho, Ph.D., is a humane educator and social justice advocate, whom founded RISE Travel Institute in June 2020 with a mission to inspire responsible, impactful, sustainable and ethical travel through education. Her work focuses on engaging young people in important conversations arou…
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TTB 199: July Travel Bites This month we bring you our Travel Bites episode where we break down the previous month’s travel related news that we found interesting. This month we discuss: Why You Should Never Put a Souvenir Stamp in Your Official Passport US tourist falls into Mount Vesuvius after taking selfie Venice Plans to Start Weeding Out Chea…
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TTB 198: The Psychology of Travel Addicts
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TTB 198: The Psychology of Travel Addicts Dave Seminara is a writer and former diplomat based in St. Petersburg, Florida. He is the author of four books. Mad Travelers: A Tale of Wanderlust, Greed and the Quest to Reach the Ends of the Earth (June 1, 2021) is a deep exploration of wanderlust, focused around the true story of William Baekeland, a yo…
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TTB 197: TAT Different Ways to Navigate a New City
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TTB 197: TAT Different Ways to Navigate a New City On this episode of the Travel Around Table, the group discusses the various ways to navigate a brand new city with a panel of travelers that have vastly different travel preferences! We covered; Ways to plan (or not) before you depart on your trip Tips on how to get around, how to pick a place to s…
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TTB 196: June Travel Bites This month we bring you our Travel Bites episode where we break down the previous month’s travel related news that we found interesting. This month we discuss: Bison Gores a Woman Who Approached in Yellowstone National Park 6,000+ US flights canceled or delayed Friday after one of worst summer air travel days yet Ambassad…
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TTB 195: Kidnapped, Bollywood Acting, and Finding Work Abroad
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TTB 195: Kidnapped, Bollywood Acting, and Finding Work Abroad Derek Earl Baron, aka Wandering Earl, left home in 1999 shortly after graduating from university. His goal was to travel around SE Asia for 3 months before starting a career as a sports agent back in the US. Despite having only $1500 to his name at the time, that 3 month trip kept going …
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TTB 194: Part Travel. Part Misadventures. Part Documentary
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TTB 194: Part Travel. Part Misadventures. Part Documentary Pashmina, a travel writer based in Malaysia has cycled in Kyrgyzstan, Taiwan, Laos and even traveled overland from Iran to Europe. Her stories are focused on pushing limits, bicycle touring, hiking and finding relatively affordable ways to plan a grand adventure. Today we talked about her t…
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TTB 193: May Travel Bites This month we bring you our Travel Bites episode where we break down the previous month’s travel related news that we found interesting. This month we discuss: Man's stash of 900 illegal erectile dysfunction pills seized at Philadelphia airport Emergency landing in Florida: Pilot who lost consciousness in mid-air suffered …
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TTB 192: Exploring the Robust World of Coffee
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TTB 192: Exploring the Robust World of Coffee Valerian Hrala started Green Plantation Coffee in 2001, offering single origin coffee in Slovakia. For more than 15 years he has been working, living and writing about coffee. With the Boot team, he developed the first online coffee education project coffeecourses.com and in 2017 he co-founded Unleashed…
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TTB 191: Why You Should Retire in Costa Rica
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TTB 191: Why You Should Retire in Costa Rica Erika Ebsworth-Goold served as a publicist and messaging expert for several non-profit organizations based in St. Louis. Prior to that, she was an Emmy Award–winning television newscast producer and on this podcast we discussed 8 Reasons Costa Rica Is The Best Place To Retire Internationally! The Travele…
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TTB 190: The Importance of Art, History, and Travel
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TTB 190: The Importance of Art, History, and Travel Tamar is an art historian turned finance administrator turned independent radio producer. She worked for years as an art history instructor and an adjunct lecturer at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. Today we took a deep dive (for us, anyway) into the world of art and its relationship to history, …
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TTB 189: The Trip From Hell, Meeting El Chapo in Mexico
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TTB 189: The Trip From Hell, Meeting El Chapo in Mexico Paul Wilson jumped at the chance to join two local icons on a dream surf trip In the summer of 1978, to mainland Mexico, unaware their ultimate destination lies in the heart of drug cartel country. Having no earthly idea of where he’ll get the money to pay his share, and determined to prove hi…
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TTB 188: April Travel Bites This month we bring you our Travel Bites episode where we break down the previous month’s travel related news that we found interesting. This month we discuss: CDC Removes All Countries From Highest 'Level 4' Travel Warning Airlines ditch face mask rules for the first time in two years. Hundreds of new and unusual insect…
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TTB 187: TSA, Our Travel Guardians Thomas Carter, Federal Security Director (FSD), leads the oversight of Newark, a Category X airport, and two spoke airports in the state of New Jersey, accommodating more than 30 million passengers per year for the TSA. Mr. Carter joined the TSA at its inception by transferring from the Federal Aviation Administra…
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TTB 186: TAT What is “Responsible Travel”?
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TTB 186: TAT What is “Responsible Travel”? On this episode of the Travel Around Table, the group discusses what it takes to be a “Responsible Traveler”. This included the question of whether or not you should contribute your tourism dollars to governments you don’t agree with, adding “turnstiles” to landmarks in the name of sustainability, tracking…
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TTB 185: Paragliding with the Monarch Butterfly Migration
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TTB 185: Paragliding with the Monarch Butterfly Migration Benjamin Jordan grew up in Toronto, Ontario and broke into the world of visual arts through pursuits of fashion and advertising photography. In 2006, Jordan and three friends rode their skateboards across Canada, during which he discovered his passion of producing Adventure Travel Documentar…
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TTB 184: March Travel Bites This month we bring you our Travel Bites episode where we break down the previous month’s travel related news that we found interesting. This month we discuss: The Most Annoying Passengers on a Plane, According to a New Survey Mother, 34, is left red-faced after drunkenly ordering an Uber XL to Ukraine to 'help out' TSA …
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