Winging It Travel Podcast

Hello and welcome to number 130! This week I am joined by Rebecca Shoval who has joined me this week to talk about coffee and travel. Rebecca is a volunteer at Not Just Tourists which delivers medical supplies to people who can not afford them. The idea is that anyone travelling to pretty much anywhere in the world can offer to carry an extra suitcase with medical supplies and then deliver to the...

Hello and welcome to the 39th episode of my trip! Today's episode is the 16th one of our road trip across Canada and the USA. When leaving to backpack the world this year, we always intended to return to our campervan in Vancouver and drive to the East Coast in July. This is the fourth episode of the USA road trip as we make our way through South Dakota, Wyoming and Idaho. We had some recommendati...

Hello and welcome to number 129! This week I am joined by Jay Swanson who is a YouTuber, writer and blogger. Jay talks us through his journey from the USA to Paris which took a whole decade travelling through the USA, West Africa and Europe. He has been vlogging on Youtube since 2006 and has tons of awesome material on there. He also has a very handy Paris In My Pocket Guide for you to peruse. We...

Hello and welcome to the 38th episode of my trip! Today's episode is the 15th one of our road trip across Canada and the USA. When leaving to backpack the world this year, we always intended to return to our campervan in Vancouver and drive to the East Coast in July. This is the third episode of the USA road trip as we make the arduous journey from Washington DC to South Dakota. To kick start this...

Hello and welcome to number 128! This week I am joined by Terry Repak who has worked as an investigative reporter, an editor, a television producer, a research fellow and a freelance writer. Today, we talk about Terry's new book Circling Home: What I Learned By Living Elsewhere and I absolutely loved reading it! Terry covers her life living in the Ivory Coast during the Aids Epidemic and supportin...

Hello and welcome to the 37th episode of my trip! Today's episode is the 14th one of our road trip across Canada and the USA. When leaving to backpack the world this year, we always intended to return to our campervan in Vancouver and drive to the East Coast in July. This is the second episode of the USA road trip as we enter some new states like Rhode Island and Connecticut as well as going to on...

Hello and welcome to number 127! This week I am joined by Renee Bruns who is a wheelchair super traveller having travelled to 118 countries to date, all 50 states, been to every continent and holds a Guinness World Record. I was really keen to learn what it is like to travel as a wheelchair user and how difficult it is or not for Renee. Renee was super awesome in this episode by being honest about...

Hello and welcome to the 36th episode of my trip! Today's episode is the 13th one of our road trip across Canada and the USA. When leaving to backpack the world this year, we always intended to return to our campervan in Vancouver and drive to the East Coast in July. This is the first episode of the USA road trip as we enter Maine to begin another new adventure. In this episode, I talk about first...

Hello and welcome to number 126! This week I am joined by my partner Emma Hughes as we wrap up our 8 week road trip across Canada. We cover stats like how much it cost, the price of campsites, the total KMs, how many cities we travelled through and much more! The second half of the episode we have some conversation points such as highlights, lowlights, what we would do differently, recommendations...

Hello and welcome to the 35th episode of my trip! Today's episode is the 12th one of our road trip across Canada and the USA. When leaving to backpack the world this year, we always intended to return to our campervan in Vancouver and drive to the East Coast in July. This is the final episode of the Canadian road trip as we wrap up Nova Scotia by checking out the bustling city of Halifax before he...

Hello and welcome to the 34th episode of my trip! Today's episode is the eleventh one of our road trip across Canada and the USA. When leaving to backpack the world this year, we always intended to return to our campervan in Vancouver and drive to the East Coast in July. In this episode, we complete one of our main aims of this road trip which was to check out Cape Breton Island in Nova Scotia. We...

Hello and welcome to number 125! This week I am joined by Rob Carr who runs the tour company Rob Carr Tours which specialises in Scotland travel. We hear all about Rob's previous travels when he went to Marrakech with his brother which inspired me to travel more and see more of the world. Then we deep dive in Scotland talking about Rob's tours in Edinburgh which focus on Harry Potter and the city...

Hello and welcome to the 33rd episode of my trip! Today's episode is the tenth one of our road trip across Canada and the USA. When leaving to backpack the world this year, we always intended to return to our campervan in Vancouver and drive to the East Coast in July. In this episode, I am covering our amazing time on Prince Edward Island which is a province on an island. We kick off this episode...

Hello and welcome to number 124! This week I am joined by John McKenzie who is an avid traveller and I heard John talk about his road trip in Armenia on another podcast so I wanted to get him on! So here we have it, we cover that said road trip, travelling to the Falkland Islands as well as French Polynesia. A very eclectic episode this one covering some very different places and John is a great w...

Hello and welcome to the 32nd episode of my trip! Today's episode is the ninth one of our road trip across Canada and the USA. When leaving to backpack the world this year, we always intended to return to our campervan in Vancouver and drive to the East Coast in July. In this episode, I am covering our time in Toronto checking out the CBD, Kensington Market area as well as Little Italy. I was luck...

Hello and welcome to number 123! This week I am joined by Ted Cragg for a second time as we record an episode in his new podcast studio at his house. I stayed with Ted for a night on my Canadian road trip as we made our East! It was great to meet Ted in person and catch up! In this episode we talk about both of our travels this year and what it is like to travel in a post-Covid world. Ted travelle...

Hello and welcome to the 31st episode of my trip! Today's episode is the eighth one of our road trip across Canada and the USA. When leaving to backpack the world this year, we always intended to return to our campervan in Vancouver and drive to the East Coast. In this episode, I am covering our time in Montreal + Niagara Falls. It was great to get some apartment living in as we stayed at a mutual...

Hello and welcome to the 30th episode of my trip! Today's episode is the seventh one of our road trip across Canada and the USA. When leaving to backpack the world this year, we always intended to return to our campervan in Vancouver and drive to the East Coast. In this episode, I am covering our trip from Ottawa to La Mauricie National Park then onto Quebec City. This wasn't the initial plan but...

Hello and welcome to the 29th episode of my trip! Today's episode is the sixth one of our road trip across Canada and the USA. When leaving to backpack the world this year, we always intended to return to our campervan in Vancouver and drive to the east coast. In this episode, I am covering our trip from Thunder Bay to Ottawa via Pukaskwa National Park. We had our first truck stop night (which was...

Hello and welcome to the 28th episode of my trip! Today's episode is the fifth one of our road trip across Canada and the USA. When leaving to backpack the world this year, we always intended to return to our campervan in Vancouver and drive to the east coast. In this episode, I am covering our trip from Regina to Riding National Park in Manitoba all the way to Thunder Bay in Ontario. A serious am...

Hello and welcome to number 122! This week I am joined by Urmi Hossain who is travelling the world as a Bengali-Italian and she shares some great insights from her experiences on the road. We delve into her native homes of Italy and Bangladesh as well as the Dominican Republic, Malta, Mexico and her current home of Montreal, Canada. Urmi grew up in Italy to Bangladeshi parents and I wanted to delv...

Hello and welcome to number 121! This week I am joined by Ric Gazarian who is on a mission to travel to every UN country in the world (193). Ric hosts the Counting Countries Podcast which interviews people whose mission is to travel to every UN country. Ric has a website called GlobalGaz which has his blogs, books, films and access to all the information about Ric's travels. Last year he hosted th...

Hello and welcome to the 27th episode of my trip! Today's episode is the fourth one of our road trip across Canada and the USA. When leaving to backpack the world this year, our intention was always to come back to our campervan in Vancouver and drive to the east coast. In this episode, I am covering our trip from Canmore to Calgary for our first visit to a big city. Of course, we had to stop off...

Hello and welcome to number 120! This week I am joined by Kyle Rasmussen from the Our Travel Experiences Podcast. Today we talk about Kyle's travels to New Zealand, Cuba, Morocco and France. Kyle has travelled to every state in the USA and is on a mission to visit every national park. We also talk about Kyle's newly published book Travel Tips: A 20 Something's Comprehensive Guide for Traveling in...

Hello and welcome to the 26th episode of my trip! Today's episode is the third one of our road trip across Canada and the USA. Our intention when leaving to backpack the world this year was always to come back to our campervan in Vancouver and drive to the east coast. In this episode I am covering our trip from Vancouver to Penticton and then onto Nelson before hitting Two Jacks Lake in The Rockie...