Bonus: Long Distance Love — What It’s Like When Your Partner Is A Travel Writer
What’s it like dating a travel writer who’s normally gone half the year? And what’s it like when they’re stuck at home indefinitely? Our partners answer these questions and more.
Episode 10: The Future of Sustainability in Aviation
What is the environmental impact of the aviation industry, and how can airlines, airports, and governments all work together to make travel more sustainable? We tackle these questions along with guests from KLM Royal Dutch Airlines, Los Angeles International Airport (LAX) and the Aviation Environment Federation.
Episode 9: Food Tours as Delicious Introductions to Cultures, in Barcelona and Saigon
As Eric and Kathryn well know, there’s no better way to dive into a city’s culture and discover its quirks than by taking a thoughtfully executed food tour.
Episode 8: How Tourism-Based Charities In Kenya Are Adapting to COVID
On a trip to Kenya in December, Eric discovered how wildlife conservation and community education projects depend on tourism dollars, and how they have adapted to the challenges of the pandemic.
Episode 7: Considering Politics, Human Rights and Inequity When You Travel
What is our responsibility as travelers to follow politics, current events and human rights issues in a destination we’re interested in visiting?
Episode 6: Touring Tasmania’s One-of-a-Kind Wildlife, History and Food
Tasmania has quietly become one of the most sustainable tourism destinations in the world thanks to its phenomenal cultural, culinary, and wildlife experiences.
Episode 5: How to Rehabilitate a Landscape—Lessons From Rwanda and the Great Barrier Reef
Human conflict and development are just two culprits behind the decimation of natural landscapes, but this episode highlights two examples of stunningly successful environmental rehabilitation efforts.
Episode 4: How Travel Can Help Bring Clean Drinking Water To Communities Around The World
In the U.S., we take clean drinking water for granted, but traveling refocuses this point of view. We look at how to be part of the solution while on the road.
Episode 3: Rediscovering Los Angeles–A Lockdown Love Letter To Our City
The coronavirus travel lockdowns of the past year inspired us to start exploring the art, architecture and history of our own city, L.A., including a hike to the Hollywood Sign and tasting wines made right in Downtown Los Angeles.
Episode 2: Women In Tourism—How Ride 4 A Woman Changes Lives In Uganda
To the community around Bwindi, Uganda, Evelyn Habasa is a heroine whose Ride 4 A Woman NGO has empowered and given opportunity to her fellow females.
Episode 1: Letting Nature Shine—Environmentally Sensitive Architecture in the World’s Most Beautiful Places
Discover the vision and innovative design process behind two low-footprint luxury lodges, one on Costa Rica’s Papagayo Peninsula and the other on distant Christmas Island.
Season Two: Episode Zero
A brief preview of season two, full of Eric’s and Kathryn’s travel tales from destinations as disparate as Tasmania and Rwanda, Cambodia and Barcelona, and dynamic personalities we met along the way.
Episode 12: Traveling from Home Through Souvenirs
Eric and Kathryn discuss the way they’re reliving past travels with the help of souvenirs.
Episode 9: Locked Down in Nairobi During COVID
We rewind to April 2020, when COVID-19 was still very new, and Kathryn was on lockdown in Nairobi, Kenya.
Episode 8: The Ethics of Swimming with Dolphins and Whales
Do intimate encounters with marine mammals encourage people to participate in conservation? We explore the ethics and sensitivity around swimming with sea creatures in the wild.
Episode 5: Airport Design—How It’s Changing Due to COVID and Beyond
Sometimes the most relaxing place to travel is nowhere at all.