GoNOMAD Travel Podcast

Gaspe Peninsula, also known as Gaspesie, is a fantastic and out-of-the-way destination in Quebec Canada. Find out what's there.

Helsinki, Finland, is that perfect combination of urban and outdoors, lively yet laid-back. Helsinki was established as a trading town in the Middle Ages to be a Swedish rival to other ports on the Gulf of Finland. It remained a small fishing village for over two centuries.

I visited Saudi Arabia and I had an interesting moment outside a mosque in the city. 

If you're sick of the long TSA lines and intrusive security In a story on GoNOMAD, Susan Krauss explains the details of getting your Global Entry or TSA Precheck designation,   <a href="https://www.gonomad.com/201501-become-a-trusted-traveler ">

Today we take a journey across the west, from Denver's magnificent Union Station to the famous town of Moab, Utah. Read the story on GoNOMAD Read the story here <a href=" https://www.gonomad.com/194509-us-rocky-mountaineer-train ">

The modern world is full of gigantic megaprojects that many people have never even heard of. In this episode, we take a look at some of the biggest construction projects both completed and ones that are still being built.

The Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia are almost unchanged from the ones George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, and Daniel Boone knew 250 years ago.  Read the story here <a href=" https://www.gonomad.com/201666-seven-reasons-blue-ridge-mountains ">

Mystery Trips are a new way to travel. You sign up and have no idea where the bus will go, it's a complete mystery to everyone on the coach. Read the story here <a href=" https://www.gonomad.com/202028-mystery-trips-going-no-one-knows-where ">

Ever wondered about all of the little soap bars left in hotels after just one or two uses? So did we. What we discovered from the Hustle Newsletter was a very creative thinker named Shawn Seipler, who saw the need and ended up helping the world. .  <a "https://cleantheworld.org/about-us/about-us-overview/">p

Underwater hotels: A round-up of hotels you can visit where you sleep underwater, including the Jules Undersea Lodge in Key Largo Florida, The Intercontinental Shanghai Wonderland in China, the Manta Resort on Pemba Island Tanzania, The Muraka Conrad Maldives Rangali Island and others. Some require SCUBA gear and others don't require a swim to visit. Episode based on a story in Conde Nast Traveler...

In a land as rich with eccentricities as the Australian Outback, Coober Pedy manages to stand out. A small town in South Australia plopped down in a nearly uninhabitable desert, it is dry and sterile, grassless and unpretty.   Read more <a"https://www.gonomad.com/2989-australias-coober-pedy-gemstone-desert" >

Midtown Manhattan’s Morgan Library & Museum , was once the personal library of late 19th and early 20th-century financier, investment banker and cultural benefactor John Pierpont Morgan , a fervent collector of early printed books, music scores, manuscripts, prints, and paintings from some of history’s most noted artists, writers, composers, and heroes. Visiting the library is a treat, you can...

Winter in Alaska comes with its own set of travel challenges, as Maria Haase learned on her winter trip to Fairbanks and up the Dalton Highway to Coldfoot, Alaska . This part of the world is where they film the TV Show, "Ice Road Truckers" and the Coldfoot Camp is a lot more than a truckstop. It's a hotel, restaurant, gift shop and a place to enjoy being above the Arctic Circle and see the Aurora...

Jackson Mississippi is the state's capital and a center for blues, barbecue and most of all, civil rights.  We visited Jackson in April and got a chance to visit the Mississippi Civil Rights Museum, the Mississippi History Museum and the large art museum. We toured the home and learned a lot about the famous author and Pulitzer prize winner Eudora Welty, who lived in Jackson. We also explored...

Today on GoNOMAD we interview Heather Mikesell, an expert on health, spas, and wellness. She told us about six interesting trends that are guiding wellness retreats around the US including at Carillion in Miami Florida and Kripalu in Lenox, Mass. Non-touch services that eliminate the need to have physical contact is growing, as is breathwork, where you study and perfect the art of breathing. We al...

Today on GoNOMAD we explore the silent way of communication in Italy, namely the famous Italian hand gestures that Italians use to convey their thoughts with their hands as well as their faces.   <a href=" https://www.gonomad.com/1766-italian-hand-gestures-in-conversation">

Tailwind Air now offers seaplane service from Plymouth, Massachusetts to Boston, and New York City.  Samantha Butts joined the pilot of Tailwind Air for a quick jaunt from Plymouth, Mass, flying a low-altitude 20-minute hop that landed in the water of Boston Harbor. Seaplane service is a classy way to get anywhere and it's a great addition to the many water taxis and ferries offering new ways...

Did you know you can take a specially equipped sleeper bus between LA and San Francisco? The Cabin offers sleeping pods and other amenities to make an overnight trip between Santa Monica and San Francisco a comfortable sleepy trip.  Watch the Buzzfeed video about Cabin <a href=" https://youtu.be/hjb2p_GEPpE"

Great Diamond Island is one of many islands in Casco Bay, near the city of Portland, Maine.  There was a fort built in the 1800s on Great Diamond Island that's been transformed into a series of townhouses, condos, and a luxury hotel. 

Today on GoNOMAD, veteran travel writer Ginger Warder takes a short trip to a fascinating part of South Carolina, The Santee Cooper region. She stayed in some octagonal-shaped cabins, met a friendly armadillo, and then cast her line with one of the only female fishing charter captains, nicknamed Mouse, to fish for catfish sleeping beneath the murky depths. Ginger recalls the local history with the...

Private rail cars harken back to the days of the robber barons. But with America's Trains, you can rent a private rail car that gets towed behind an Amtrak train.   <a href=" https://www.gonomad.com/1659-americas-trains-offer-luxury-train-travel ">

A visit to the Henry Ford Museum in Dearborn Michigan. Henry Ford was the ultimate collector, but what he loved were the ordinary objects found on farms and in factories and even the buildings that contained them.  Read the story here <a href=" https://www.gonomad.com/199654-henry-ford-museum-history-great-inventor">

In Wuppertal, Germany, a city of 350,000 near Dusseldorf, there is an upside-down train, called the Schwebebahn. The train runs for twenty stops along an 8-mile, 35-minute long route, with the tracks and wheels above the train, and the passenger compartment hanging below. The Schwebebahn is a beloved tourist attraction in Wuppertal and carries 80,000 passengers every weekday through the city. It w...

As the war in Ukraine goes on, so many ripple effects are being felt after the U.S. and EU's harsh sanctions, especially on the Russian aviation industry. After Boeing and Airbus stopped supplying the nation, Russia retaliated by taking control over leased airplanes in the country. How the ban on flying over Russia affects other airlines.

Have you ever wondered what those series of numbers, letters and codes mean on your airline boarding pass?  We did too.