Travel podcast focusing on the wild and weird side of the planet.
In this episode of Bizarre Travel Tales: the problem with mountainous measurements; the reason United Airlines has a PR department; and a monument to the man responsible for billions of dorm-room dinners. … Continue readingBizarre Travel: Summits & equations! Stranded on United! Museum of Instant Noodles!
In this episode of Bizarre Travel Tales, we’ll find why France’s rail system needs a bigger plunger; that one European city is, legally, an intergalactic speed trap; and that a British restaurant owner thinks his take-out food should be taken waaay out. … Continue readingBizarre Travel: Arm-eating toilet! UFO no-fly zone! Samosas in space!
We rely so much on spoken and written language, especially on the road, but is it possible that focusing too much on it prevents us from communicating other ways? Longtime
Continue readingGrounded: Is a language barrier always a barrier?
Longtime travel blogger and train fanatic Nora Dunn talks about what happens when Eastern medicine goes south, emptying vomit buckets in Peru, why no one should skydive naked, and whether
Drag performer Afrika America brings fun and fabulousness to everything she does — including her day job as a flight attendant. She chats about tragically oblivious passengers, why Chicago is
Continue readingFlying with Miss Afrika America is never a drag
Longtime blogger, entreprenuer and author Matt Kepnes talks about what life on the road for a decade is really like, missing a flight because of a hangover, why Paris is
Continue readingNomadic life makes Matt Kepnes a hostel witness
Veteran blogger and outspoken travel advocate Pam Mandel (@NerdsEyeView) chats about people-watching in Waikiki, why road trips are the best travel (hint: stopping for pie), telling truth to tourism outlets,
Continue readingPam Mandel and Seattle’s secret piles of pot
Gary Arndt, one of the world’s most popular travel gurus, talks about where to get pork ribs in Tel Aviv, the art of “paleo showering,” his Catholic-suffering approach to air
Continue readingSleeping naked at Disney World with Gary Arndt
Veteran travel writer and blogger Rich Grant talks about drinking scotch from Coke cups, why the ruins at Pompeii need a decent bar, how to attract strippers with convention swag,
San Francisco radio and TV travel guru Joel Riddell talks about stripping down on the Croatia coast, hunky generals, forbidden love (of Disneyland), kilos of caviar and leaving a butt