Podcast Episodes

How inexpensive countries are the secret to prolonging the journey [encore]

Season 4 Episode 180

“Calculate what you spend on a daily basis at home for all your living expenses, cut that in half, and you’ll have a daily budget that can take you a…

4 years, 2 months ago

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The disappearance of a traveler in India

Season 4 Episode 179

“I realized that Justin Alexander was the latest person to disappear in a long history of travelers disappearing in India’s Parvati Valley. It’s a da…

4 years, 2 months ago

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Lost in the Valley of Death: The life and disappearance of Justin Alexander

Season 4 Episode 179

“I realized that Justin Alexander was the latest person to disappear in a long history of travelers disappearing in India’s Parvati Valley. It’s a da…

4 years, 2 months ago

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A mixtape about mixtapes

Season 4 Episode 178

“Mixtapes were more than a way to share music in the 1980s and 1990s: They were, in fact, a type of extraverbal language — a vivid, inexpensive form …

4 years, 3 months ago

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A mixtape (of sorts) about mixtapes: Music as intimate communication

Season 4 Episode 178

“Mixtapes were more than a way to share music in the 1980s and 1990s: They were, in fact, a type of extraverbal language — a vivid, inexpensive form …

4 years, 3 months ago

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Christmas Special [encore]

Season 4 Episode 177

“The Sears Christmas Wish Book was, for me, a kind of foundational text — a secular counterpoint to the Bible stories I learned around that time in S…

4 years, 3 months ago

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Holiday Special: Celebrating the Sears Christmas Wish Book [encore]

Season 4 Episode 177

“The Sears Christmas Wish Book was, for me, a kind of foundational text — a secular counterpoint to the Bible stories I learned around that time in S…

4 years, 3 months ago

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How digital photos have changed travel

Season 4 Episode 176

“When you smell a place, that’s when your experience of it starts.” – Rolf Potts

Wade Shepard (@vagabondjourney) is an itinerant writer and filmmaker…

4 years, 4 months ago

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Digital nomadism [bonus]: How technology has changed the way we travel

Season 4 Episode 176

“When you smell a place, that’s when your experience of it starts.” – Rolf Potts

Wade Shepard (@vagabondjourney) is an itinerant writer and filmmaker…

4 years, 4 months ago

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Van Life before #VanLife (encore): Revisiting a classic USA road trip

Season 4 Episode 175

“I will never have another vagabonding journey that compares to that first one — even though I have since traveled to far more exotic parts of the wo…

4 years, 5 months ago

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