It’s rare that I get to talk with someone for more than and hour about travel memories and food. I felt as though podcast host Chris of @nomadicfoodist and The Nomadic Foodist Show and I were just having a friendly chat as we reminisced our way from Vietnam to Turkey to Peru to Italy, talking about why and how we travel.
I hope he got as much out of the conversation as I did. And stepping out of my role as the podcast host was different! (He did a great job making the audio sound great, which I know is no small feat, btw).
Check it out on APPLE, SPOTIFY or STITCHER, or stream it on Chris’ site.
It was reflective and is probably just preaching to the travel choir, but I was happy to get to talk about privilege, xenophobia, bravery and travel, albeit through a highly subjective lens. Mostly it was fun to just remember some of the highlights of my traveling life, from blueberry yogurt in a milk container on breakfast cereal in Iceland when I was a culture shocked 13-year-old to sink peaches* in Italy, dengue in Malaysia and rock climbing and (not eating) worms in Peru. I also finally got to sing the praises of some of the most fascinating people I met on my last pre-pandemic trip to Turkey, from a natural winemaker to an older man who sold me some strange kind of sweet, fuzzy bean.
If you too think of travel as highlights of the ongoing story of your life, turn on the stream while you eat dinner (or dessert) and cross your fingers for a happy ending.
*Sink peaches, as defined by a disappeared former friend of mine (another long travel story, I’m afraid), are peaches that are so juicy that they must be eaten over the sink.
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