This Week in Travel

Gary, Chris, and Jen all reunite. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Mary Jo Manzanares is a lifelong resident of Washington State and has spent decades exploring its highways and byways. She spent 32 years as a flight attendant, eagerly sharing tips and recommendations about Seattle to inquiring passengers. Mary Jo is a frequent speaker at travel industry events, a member of the Society of American Travel Writers, and writes about her beloved Washington State at www.discoveringwashingtonstate.com and about her general travels at www.travelingwithmj.com. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Hjörtur Smárason is the CEO of Visit Greenland. He is a contributor to the new book, Aftershocks and Opportunities 2: Navigating the Next Horizon. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

SPECIAL GUESTS: Chantal and Chloe Patton We are a Canadian family of 5 who travels the world, visiting 100 countries since 2013. We're documenting our travels to share with everyone on our Youtube channel called Growing Up Without Borders and would love to share our story about our journey, how we're managing to find places to stay, and all the fun experiences we've had. At the moment, we've been in New Zealand since Covid, which has allowed us to fully discover each area of their country. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Mary Forgione covers outdoors and travel for the Los Angeles Times. She's also editor of The Wild, a newsletter that covers essential outdoor content for Southern Californians. She loves running, hiking, camping and backpacking, and doing anything outdoors -- and always looks for new ways to experience destinations in California and beyond. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

John Argento is an avid traveler who has been exploring the world for the last 35 years. Originally from Canada, John has traveled to nearly 90 countries to date, visited hundreds of cities, towns, and villages around the globe, and currently resides in Amsterdam. . He is now developing a travel concierge business, offering customized tours to European destinations. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Steven is the Host of "The One Way Ticket Show" podcast, where he explores with his acclaimed guests where they would go if given a one-way ticket, no coming back. He also chats with his guests about their lives and work. Steven is also the Host of the "IsraelCast" podcast. He speaks with experts about their work in Israel in high tech, medicine, agriculture, water management, the culinary & visual arts, and more. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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 young Brit who conned many of the world’s most traveled people as they sought to reach the planet’s most remote and off-limits places. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Fran Golden is an award-winning travel writer whose work regularly appears in Bloomberg, Travel + Leisure magazine, and other leading media outlets. She is the author of numerous cruise and travel books, including “100 Things To Do In Alaska Before You Die” (Reedy Press, 2021). The Alaska book is available at leading booksellers, or order an autographed copy at 100ThingsAlaska.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week's guest is Maureen O'Hare. She is is a Northern Irish senior digital producer for CNN Travel, based at the London bureau. She's written about news, travel, lifestyle, and entertainment for some of the world's leading media organizations. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

SPECIAL GUEST: Madeline Jhawar Madeline Jhawar is an Italy destination expert with a vision. 11 years ago, she set up an online business creating custom Italy vacations for independent travelers that broke all the rules and charged fees instead of commissions. This allowed her to create truly customized trips without worrying about whether the bucket-list destinations she chose also had a commission schedule. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Leslie Harvey is a family travel blogger and freelance travel writer. Her blog, Trips With Tykes, chronicles the joys and challenges of travel with young kids. Her travel passions include all things planes and air travel, Disney destinations, skiing, and national parks. Leslie co-hosts two Disney travel podcasts - Disney Deciphered and the Disneyland with Kids podcast. She also co-owns the 23,000 member Disneyland with Kids Facebook group. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Chris Christensen is the creator of the Amateur Traveler which is an award winning online travel podcast / blog that focuses primarily on travel destinations. He is also a co-host emeritus for This Week in Travel. https://amateurtraveler.com/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Melanie Radzicki McManus is a freelance travel writer, speaker, and author of Thousand-Miler: Adventures Hiking the Ice Age Trail. “I’m also The Thousand-Miler. Someone who hikes a lot – 7,200+ miles (11,587 km) and counting – and wants to inspire and encourage everyone to give it a try.” https://thethousandmiler.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

SPECIAL GUEST: Xiomara Rodriguez Director of Marketing & Communications at DiscoverPuertoRico.com Xiomara Rodriguez talks about Puerto Rico’s recent history and current availability as a tourist destination Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Brad Niva is the executive director of Travel Southern Oregon, the contracted tourism management organization representing Douglas, Josephine, Jackson, Klamath, and Lake counties. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

SPECIAL GUEST: Bruce Poon Tip Entrepreneur, leader, and philanthropist Bruce Poon Tip, is the founder of G Adventures, an award-winning small group adventure travel company and pioneer of community tourism. ... We host 200,000 travelers per year, offer more than 750 tours, and travel to 100 countries — across all seven continents. Bruce Poon Tip talks about his book https://unlearn.travel/ Destination pics of the week: Gary – Alberta, Canada — Wood Buffalo Jen – The Royal Tyrrell Museum of Palaeontology https://tyrrellmuseum.com/ Bruce– Japan - outside of big cities. How to get lost in rural Japan. Fishing villages in coastal Japan. Travel tips of the week: Gary – 1.1.1.1 https://1.1.1.1/ Jen – Toca Boca apps for kids of all ages https://tocaboca.com/ Bruce– Vago compression bags https://vago.global/ Find our guest and hosts online: Gary: Everything-everywhere.com Jen: @jenleo, @bitcuriousmom, Bitcuriousmom.com Bruce: https://www.instagram.com/brucepoontip Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Simon Wright is the industry editor at The Economist and recently wrote the publication's "Future of Travel" special report. Simon Wright talks about his report in the Economist, “Return of the Wanderer” https://www.economist.com/special-report/2021-02-13 Picks of the week: Gary – Check on your travel credit cards and do an audit. Check your passport status before you fly again. Jen – https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-03-25/covid-vaccine-passports-2021-the-golden-ticket-for-international-travel Simon – IATA app. https://www.iata.org/en/youandiata/travelers/iata-travel-pass-for-travelers/ Find our guest and hosts online: Gary: Everything-everywhere.com Jen: @jenleo, @bitcuriousmom, Bitcuriousmom.com Simon: Economist.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

SPECIAL GUEST Leif Pettersen: Leif Pettersen is a freelance writer, author, humorist, world traveler, and award-winning travel & tourism marketing professional from Minneapolis, Minn. He has traveled through 57 countries and lived in Spain, Romania and Italy. His latest book, THROWING UP: NOTES FROM 35 YEARS OF JUGGLING, is available on Amazon along with his travel memoir BACKPACKING WITH DRACULA. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This Week in Travel – Travel News Podcast. Co-hosts Gary Arndt and Jen Leo SPECIAL GUEST COREY TARATUTA: Corey Taratuta hosts the Irish Fireside Podcast and IrelandTravel Kit destination guide. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This Week in Travel – Travel News Podcast. Co-hosts Gary Arndt and Jen Leo SPECIAL GUEST DON GEORGE: Don George is the author of The Way of Wanderlust: The Best Travel Writing of Don George and of How to Be a Travel Writer. Currently Editor at Large for National Geographic Travel, he has been Travel Editor at the San Francisco Examiner-Chronicle, Salon, and Lonely Planet. In addition to writing and editing, he also teaches workshops and leads tours around the world. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This Week in Travel – Travel News Podcast. Regular hosts Gary Arndt and Jen Leo. CO-HOST EMERITUS: Chris is the host of the Amateur Traveler which is an award-winning online travel show that focuses primarily on travel destinations. It includes a weekly audio podcast, a video podcast, and a blog. In 2014, Chris won a Lowell Thomas Award for Travel Journalism from the Society of American Travel Writers and was called the "Best Independent Travel Journalist" by Travel & Leisure Magazine in their annual SMITTY Awards. He has worked for years in technology startups in Silicon Valley. He was formerly the Director of Engineering for TripAdvisor's New Initiatives group and was the EVP Engineering at LiveWorld where his team built and ran online communities and events for companies including eBay, HBO, TV Guide, Expedia, Marriott, A&E, History Channel, the NBA, NBC, ABC, Disney, Microsoft, WebTV, and American Express. Subscribe on Apple Podcasts | Become a Fan on Facebook | Download This Week’s News: U.S. Optimism About COVID-19 Situation Reaches New High https://news.gallup.com/poll/331832/optimism-covid-situation-reaches-new-high.aspx California says Disneyland and other amusement parks can reopen April 1 https://www.cnn.com/travel/article/disneyland-amusement-parks-california-reopening/index.html Royal Caribbean will offer a 'fully vaccinated' cruise with sailings starting in Israel https://www.usatoday.com/story/travel/cruises/2021/03/01/royal-caribbean-offer-fully-vaccinated-sailing-new-cruise-ship/6871142002/?fbclid=IwAR2L4YzYRtW-RBytlMz7bgpzVaJZhfdJBr_J-JmrOGpA9d_CLIDFz46GxKs Picks of the week: Gary – Mac Book Air M1 https://www.apple.com/macbook-air/ Jen – Universal Yums https://www.universalyums.com/?uy=vuj8wpumb7 Chris – California - all of it, back up your computer! Find Gary: Everything-everywhere.com Chris: AmateurTraveler.com Jen: @jenleo, @bitucriousmom Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This Week in Travel - Travel News Podcast. Regular hosts Gary Arndt, Jen Leo, and Chris Christensen are joined by this week's guest travel writer David Swanson from https://www.100sandiego.com/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This Week in Travel - Travel News Podcast. Regular hosts Gary Arndt, Jen Leo, Spud Hilton, and Chris Christensen are joined by this week's guest: Robert Reid from reidontravel.com who has left travel writing for a variety of reasons and returned to Oklahoma. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This Week in Travel – Travel News Podcast. Regular hosts Gary Arndt, Jen Leo, and Spud Hilton are joined by this week’s guest: Jen Campbell Boles is the owner and Chief Exploration Officer of Explore More Family Travel, a boutique travel agency Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This Week in Travel - Travel News Podcast. Regular hosts Gary Arndt, Jen Leo, and Chris Christensen are joined by this week's guest Nora Dunn from The Professional Hobo. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This Week in Travel - Travel News Podcast. Regular hosts Gary Arndt, Spud Hilton, and Chris Christensen are joined by this week's guest: Caz and Craig Makepeace from the yTravel blog Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This Week in Travel - Travel News Podcast. Regular hosts Gary Arndt, Jen Leo, Spud Hilton, and Chris Christensen are joined by this week's guest Robert Cole. Robert is a hotel and hospitality consultant at RockCheetah. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This Week in Travel – Travel News Podcast. Regular hosts Gary Arndt, Jen Leo, and Chris Christensen are joined by this week’s guest: SPECIAL GUEST BIO: Sherry Ott is a long term traveler, blogger, and photographer with one goal in mind - to make you wish you were somewhere else. She writes about her travel lifestyle and around the world adventures on Ottsworld.com and her social media channels. She continues to seek out epic adventures to intriguing places in order to challenge herself and inspire people to overcome their fears and reap the benefits of travel. Where to Go & When ebook - https://bold-grass-4654.ck.page/2d3f7584ec Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

SPECIAL GUEST BIO: Anietra Hamper is an award-winning travel writer and photographer with a penchant for outdoor adventure and fishing for some of the largest fish in the world. Prior to writing for travel publications, Anietra spent 18 years as a top-rated, EMMY nominated television news Anchor and investigative reporter. Anietra takes a “boots-on-the-ground” journalistic approach to all of her stories to provide authentic information from actual experiences. Anietra is passionate about adventure. Whether she is fishing for the giant wels catfish in Spain, trekking glaciers in Iceland, breaking angling records in Thailand, rafting Class V rapids in West Virginia, shrimping in Louisiana or hiking the jungles of Cambodia, this is how Anietra prefers to experience new destinations. Anietra currently resides in Columbus, Ohio with her dog Sunny. You can find out more about Anietra’s travels, photography, blog and next extreme fishing adventure at www.threewordpress.com. Anietra tells us her incredible story of being stuck in a remote part of India and her harrowing experience getting home. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This Week in Travel - Travel News Podcast. Regular hosts Gary Arndt, Jen Leo, Spud Hilton, and Chris Christensen talk about the Coronavirus Covid-19 and its impact on life, travel, and the travel industry. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This Week in Travel – Travel News Podcast. Regular hosts Gary Arndt, Chris Christensen, and Jen Leo are joined by this week’s guests: Earl Bridges and Craig Martin, long time philanthropy veterans, globetrotters, and best friends, are co-hosts of the new PBS Travel Series THE GOOD ROAD. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This Week in Travel - Travel News Podcast. Regular hosts Gary Arndt, Jen Leo, Spud Hilton, and Chris Christensen talk about 2019 and 2020. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This Week in Travel - Travel News Podcast. Regular hosts Jen Leo, Spud Hilton, and Chris Christensen are joined by this week's guest: Steve Kaufmann who is a retired ex-diplomat, founder of two companies, YouTuber, and polyglot. He spends most of his time on YouTube these days, speaking about language learning (he speaks around 20 languages). He now has an app LingQ. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This Week in Travel - Travel News Podcast. Regular hosts Gary Arndt, Jen Leo, Spud Hilton, and Chris Christensen are joined by this week's guest: Stephen Harris author of Traveling Through North Korea: Adventures in the Hermit Kingdom and bigbeaverdiaries.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This Week in Travel - Travel News Podcast. Regular hosts Gary Arndt, and Chris Christensen are joined by this week's guest: Travel Writer Tim Leffel from PracticalTravelGear.com, PerceptiveTravel.com, and CheapLivingAbroad.com, author of The World's Cheapest Destination. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This Week in Travel. Regular hosts Gary Arndt, Jen Leo, Spud Hilton, and Chris Christensen This special episode was recorded live at the TBEX travel blogging conference in Billings Montana and marks the 10th anniversary since the show started. We are joined by this week's guests: Palle Bo from The Radio Vagabond Rick Calvert from TBEX Jesse Guidry from Lafayette Convention and Visitors Commission Alyson Murnion from Visit Billings Caz and Craig Makepeace from ytravelblog.com Tony Price and Jim Scott from Friends That Carry On Nora Dunn from The Professional Hobo Angie and Rachel Orth from Angie Away and the Jet Sisters video series Corey Lee from Curb Free with Corey Lee Susan Bejeckian from Solomon Islands Visitors Colleen Lanin from Travel Mamas Dreya Coleman from @namedtodream Sonja Hoyt from Happy Travel Bug Priya Vin from Outside Suburbia Kerwin McKenzie from Passrider.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This Week in Travel - Travel News Podcast. Regular hosts Spud Hilton, Jen Leo, and Chris Christensen are joined by this week's guest: Chris Haag from theplacesipee.com We talk about Chris and his wife's epic two-year bike journey from Alaska to Argentina. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This Week in Travel - Travel News Podcast. Regular hosts Spud Hilton, Jen Leo, and Chris Christensen are joined by this week's guest: Scott Keyes from Scott's Cheap Flights Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This Week in Travel - Travel News Podcast. Regular hosts Gary Arndt, Jen Leo, Spud Hilton, and Chris Christensen are joined by this week's guest: David H. Mould travel writer and author of the recent book Monsoon Postcards: Indian Ocean Journeys Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This Week in Travel - Travel News Podcast. Regular hosts Gary Arndt, Jen Leo, and Chris Christensen are joined by this week's guest: Sarah Mikutel, travel podcaster at Postcard Academy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This Week in Travel - Travel News Podcast. Regular hosts Gary Arndt, Jen Leo, and Chris Christensen are joined by this week's guest: Spud Hilton, former Travel editor and host of new travel podcast from the Inappropriate Traveler - spudhilton.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This Week in Travel - Travel News Podcast. Regular hosts Gary Arndt, Jen Leo and Chris Christensen are joined by this week's guest Scott Gaille author of "Strange Tales of World Travel" Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This Week in Travel - Travel News Podcast. Regular hosts Gary Arndt, Jen Leo and Chris Christensen are joined by this week's guest: Stephanie Chastain Ireland Travel Coach and blogger from Infinite Ireland Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This Week in Travel - Travel News Podcast. Regular hosts Gary Arndt, Jen Leo and Chris Christensen are joined by this week's guest Max Hartshorne of gonomad.com. We talks about: Budget skiing in Turkey ($19 a day) Visiting Turkey UNESCO sites and National Parks buying travel sites Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This Week in Travel - Travel News Podcast. Regular hosts Gary Arndt, Jen Leo and Chris Christensen are joined by this week's guest: Warren and Karen Binedell from ourtravellingfamily.com who are starting a trip volunteering around Europe with pets and 3 teens. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This Week in Travel - Travel News Podcast. Regular hosts Gary Arndt, Jen Leo and Chris Christensen are joined by this week's guest: Spud Hilton, former Travel editor of the San Francisco Chronicle - spudhilton.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This Week in Travel - Travel News Podcast. Regular hosts Gary Arndt, and Jen Leo are joined by this week's guest travel author Francis Tapon from francistapon.com, and host of the WanderLearn Podcast Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This Week in Travel - Travel News Podcast. Regular hosts Gary Arndt, Jen Leo and Chris Christensen are joined by this week's guest: Seth Kugel, former New York Times Frugal Travel and author of the new book "Rediscovering Travel - A Guide for the Globally Curious" Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This Week in Travel - Travel News Podcast. Regular hosts Gary Arndt, Jen Leo and Chris Christensen are joined by this week's guest: Marc Bennett and Julie Bennett from rvlove.com authors of the book Living the RV Life: Your Ultimate Guide to Life on the Road as we talk about full time RV living (interview starts at 28:53 after the news): Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices