The World Wanderers Podcast

On this episode of the podcast, we share our interview with Brooke & Ben McAlary from the Slow Your Home podcast. We met Brooke & Ben at Podcast Movement in Anaheim this past August and we connected over our mutual love of travel, and then we quickly learned that we also share a love of the Canadian Rocky Mountains (Canmore is Brooke & Ben's home away from home!). During this interview, we talk ab...

You can gain a lot of value by creating content or a project for yourself to pursue while traveling, and can often end up learning a lot about yourself along the way. Combined with wanting to keep her friends and family up to date on her whereabouts and activities during our trip to South America, Amanda decided to use her love of writing to start a travel blog, and journaling during this trip hel...

One of the occasional downsides of long term travel is that you can sometimes feel that you lose your sense of community. On our first few trips we didn't necessarily get this feeling as we were expecting to return to our community base at home. We enjoyed regularly meeting new people in hostels, but there were a few times where we missed our friends and remembered how nice it was to consistently...

On this episode of the podcast we're off to Montreal & Toronto! If you've listened to a lot of episodes of the podcast, you would know that we very rarely travel our home country of Canada, so when we had the opportunity to go to Montreal & Toronto, we were very excited about it! We spent our first 3 days of the trip in Montreal, and we take you with us as we explore downtown Montreal, the Old Tow...

On last week's episode, we talked with our good friends, Steve and Julia Patterson, where they shared how they figured out their travel style while on their first backpacking trip, and it inspired us to dig deeper into this topic. You often see and hear on the media about how you should go backpacking and how you should want to quite your job to travel the world (heck, we've said it!), and while w...

When talking to people who aren't familiar with a nomadic lifestyle, it can sometimes be tricky to convey the Digital Nomadism as a career path where you can work as many hours (if not more!) than the average 9 to 5er based out of a single place. Sometimes family and friends expect you to settle down eventually, and can react a little strangely to the news that you plan to continue traveling long-...

Whether it's a big trip or a new business idea, it can be difficult to take the decision to make a big change in life. The potential reaction from family and friends and uncertainty in what lies ahead can give us a lot to think about, and our fears can often keep us from taking the leap. We experienced these feelings when making the decision to quit our jobs and take a long term trip through South...

Originally from Oklahoma City, USA, Nathan Aguilera - aka "Foodie Flashpacker" - was inspired to plan a long term trip after meeting backpackers at a hostel during a humanitarian work trip to Kenya. On arriving home, Nathan began to plan his long term adventure and what started out as a plan for 6 months has evolved into him currently being on the road for more than 3.5 years! On the anniversary o...

We left for our adventure to Asia on October 3, 2016, and traveled to more than 10 countries over eight months! Whether it was enjoying sunsets on the harbour, eating convenience store Onigiri, or coworking in Bali, we tried to make the most of each stop along the way, and made some unforgettable memories along the way. We returned home to Canada on June 1, 2017, and have been enjoying the transit...

Our last stop on our Asian adventure was the South Korean capital of Seoul, where we spent one week. The city exceeded our expectations with its cool neighbourhoods, delicious food, and beautiful scenery and architecture! We started our visit staying in the Dongdaemun neighbourhood from where we visited the Seoul Tower and Seoul Fortress Wall, and appreciated the quiet seclusion you can get right...

Lauren Rudick took off on a long term backpacking trip after graduating university as an escape, but found that the trip gave her fantastic insight into the kinds of things she wanted in life moving forward! She had completed her yoga teacher training during an earlier visit to Mexico, and after learning about a variety of yoga career opportunities beyond teaching at a conference she attended whil...

Joe Baur is a travel filmmaker, podcaster and author who realized his love for travel during a college trip to Thailand and India. After moving to Cleveland to work in the fitness industry after graduation, Joe made a shift to travel writing as part of a trip to Northern Ontario and eventually decided he wanted a lifestyle which would allow frequent changes to his surroundings. Joe moved with his...

A visit to Taiwan came highly recommended to us by friends as a budget friendly destination with great food and interesting attractions, but a flight in to a more inconvenient airport, misrepresented accommodation, and less than beautiful scenery quickly started to cause our experience to not live up to our expectations of the visit. In keeping an open mind while exploring more of the country, and...

Sasha and Rachel (aka the Grateful Gypsies) met while working at a music festival in Michigan and have been traveling the world for just about 10 years. Soon after they met Sasha moved to Beijing to teach English, and Rachel joined him where they lived and worked for three years. After a gap year traveling everywhere from USA to Southeast Asia, and another teaching position in Kunming, China, Sash...

We pick up where we left off last week during our time in Japan with us leaving Tokyo for the town of Fujiyoshida and beautiful views of the iconic Mt Fuji. From there we made the most of our JR Rail Passes on the Shinkansen bullet train and traveled to touristy Kyoto where there's lots to see and do! We learned some Japanese history, including the role Shintoism played in shaping Japanese culture...

We made plans to go to Japan with some friends during their trip to Canada last year, and were looking forward to our visit since we left for Asia in October of 2016. Landing in Tokyo, we were expecting an Asian version of New York City but were surprised by how quiet and orderly everything seemed! We loved the city and learning about Japanese culture by appreciating the kindness of the locals, en...

We are SUPER EXCITED to be joined on the podcast this week by Chris Guillebeau ! Chris has some serious travel and entrepreneurship credentials: - He is a bestselling author - He's been to every single UN recognized country in the world (all 193) - He runs one of the best events in the country every summer (World Domination Summit) - and his new project Side Hustle School is one of the top-ranked...

Jill Neimann is a conscious travel expert and the creator/host of the Conscious Travel Summit, an online video series. She has visited over 70 countries and is passionate about shifting towards a more conscious planet through transformation travel experiences. After wrapping up her around the word trip, Jill developed her career by working in the International division of a large bank and had the...

Idahosa (pronounced ee-DOW-ssah) Ness is the founder of The Mimic Method language learning method and speaks five languages fluently – Spanish, French, Portuguese, German and Mandarin Chinese. He developed the system in 2010 while studying percussion in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, and was struggling to learn Brazilian rhythms. The Mimic Method is unique in that the listener learns the new language by...

Jake and Michelle Schomp thought they would have to temporarily abandon their love of travel and settle down with corporate jobs once they had kids. After deciding they didn’t want to miss out on spending more time with their children, they realized there was no better time than the present to show them what the world has to offer! They’ve since been travelling with their toddlers Henley, 4, and J...

Amanda Hathorn-Geary worked on cruise ships for 10 years, worked in cruise ship recruitment for 6 years and now has her own business as a cruise ship employment specialist, and she's here to share what life at sea is like. On this episode we talk about what it's like to work on a cruise ship, how a job on the cruise ship fulfills the desire to travel, what you can expect from a job on a cruise shi...

  We spent 2 months in Bali and we're here to share what we did in Bali, where we went, and why we ended spending 2 months there. When we first planned our trip to Asia, we knew we wanted to go to Bali for at least a month! Amanda did her yoga teacher training there back in 2015 and loved it, and she was really excited to take Ryan back there and show him some of her favorite places on the island....

Peter Neiger was working a good job and making good money, but he was unhappy. He sold his stuff, quit his job and decided to bike across America without any previous biking experience. We start this interview with Peter sharing what inspired him to bike across America, what the first month was like and what encouraged him to push on during really tough times. After a number of months on the road,...

Becky Gillespie is originally from the US, but has been living in Tokyo for 10 years. As part of our pre-Japan preparation, we wanted to interview her about life in Japan. Becky first traveled to Japan to teach English through a company called Nova, and at that point, she had only planned one year in Japan. One year turned to two, and then after a couple of years she made the transition into accou...

Last week on the podcast, we took you from Yangon to the Golden Rock, back to Yangon and we were headed on an overnight bus to Inle Lake right as we finished the episode. This week, we're picking up where we left off. We share what our 12 hour overnight bus from Yangon to Inle was like, and what we did in 3 days in Inle, including an entire day spent in the pouring rain. After Inle Lake, we take y...