This Week in Travel – Episode 175

Regular hosts Jen Leo and Chris Christensen are joined by this week’s guest Dylan Lowe from thetravellingeditor.com. Subscribe on Apple Podcasts

Win A GoBag Filled With $400 Worth Of Travel Gear from Allianz Global Assistance!

The good folks at Allianz Global Assistance have just been selected as the supplier of travel insurance on Priceline.com and the Priceline Partner Network. Allianz products are available to consumers booking flights, hotels and rental cars on all these platforms. To celebrate they are giving away a bag full of amazing travel gear valued at …

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Win A Travel Scholarship From Allianz Insurance

“ScholarTrips,” an Allianz Global Assistance USA scholarship program designed to support international study and volunteer programs, has launched its 2016 video and essay contest. Believing that study abroad programs are critical to a student’s development and help promote the benefits of travel, Allianz Global Assistance hopes that the ScholarTrips program will promote meaningful global exchanges. …

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Vegas Errata

– The strip is one massive optical illusion. All of Las Vegas is located on a very flat plateau. As such, you can see a long way into the distance. Everything on the strip is built oversized. The signs are enormous. South of the strip on Las Vegas Blvd. there is as strip mall with …

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All Seriousness Aside…

There are no things in life more serious than the internet and traveling. Put them together and you get something more serious than a heart attack in the middle of a church service. So I’m back in Sydney now where I can once again wear sandals and short and not worry about freezing. My goal …

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This Week in Travel – Episode 171

Regular hosts Gary Arndt, Jen Leo and Chris Christensen are joined by this week’s guest Matt Villano of Expedia Viewfinder. Subscribe on Apple Podcasts

This Week in Travel – Episode 187

Jen Leo and Chris Christensen are joined by this week’s guest, author and filmmaker Jared Brock. Subscribe on Apple Podcasts

Auckland Ahoy!

I’m safe in Auckland. It’s dark and I’m tired, but so far I like the city. It reminds me of Toronto. I’m going to spend all day here tomorrow cleaning my clothes, getting my hair cut, and figuring out my schedule for the next two weeks. It rained all day on Rarotonga….until I borded the …

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Pronounced Kee-ree-bas

I’m off to Kiribati in a few hours, with a short stop over in Nauru. At most, I hope to get a Nauru passport stamp. I’ll be there for four days before I leave, again, for Fiji and Tuvalu. Then it’s on to Hawai’i on August 14. I hope to have my Rennell update finished …

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