Wherever We May Roam - Travels With Jim and Rita

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Their Horse Made It To Panama - Then The Ground Moved

2026-10-2836:31

Send us Fan Mail A dream move can feel settled and shaky at the same time. Julie Tallman and Roy McGinnis finally return to Pedasí, Panama and move into their newly built home near the Pacific, only to face a massive 7.7 earthquake eight days later. That contrast turns a “fresh start abroad” story into something more honest and more useful: what it looks like to commit to expat life when the unexpected shows up immediately. We dig into the real logistics of moving overseas the right way, inc...

How A Cross-Country Bike Ride Rebuilt Self-Worth

2026-10-2141:22

Send us Fan Mail A tandem bike ride can look like a quirky travel story from the outside, until you realize it can also be a moving, three-month workshop in courage. We sit down with author and podcaster Teri M. Brown, who went from not riding a bicycle in decades to pedaling a tandem from Astoria, Oregon to Washington, D.C. in the summer of 2020. Along the way, she and her husband Bruce camped through COVID closures, climbed real mountains that flatland training cannot prepare you for, and l...

Across Africa In A Volkswagen Bus

2026-10-1435:22

Send us Fan Mail Driving the full length of Africa sounds like a fantasy until you picture it the way Barry Maughan lived it: a Volkswagen Kombi bus, paper maps, no cell phones, no GPS, and a world where borders can close overnight. Barry spent decades as an international broadcast journalist focused on the African continent, and his memoir "Beneath the African Sun" captures the wild mix of history, work, and everyday survival that shaped him. We talk through the chain of “happy accidents” t...

Selling Everything To Sail On

2026-10-0739:37

Send us Fan Mail They sold the farm, let go of the stuff, and pushed off the dock lines with a shared promise: sail around the world together. From their boat in French Polynesia, award-winning author and lifelong sailor Alison Gieschen joins us with her husband Dan to tell the full story behind their liveaboard sailing life on their 43-foot sailboat, Equus, including what it takes to keep moving when the dream gets expensive, exhausting, and genuinely scary. We dig into the turning points t...

Storytelling And Travel As A Path To Healing

2026-09-3039:06

Send us Fan Mail Life doesn’t follow a map, and neither do the journeys that shape us. We’re joined by Shannon Lamkin, author, speaker, and host of the internationally listened to podcast Travel Time Stories with Shannon, for a conversation that starts with travel and quickly gets more honest. Shannon shares how a show built around destinations evolved into a space where people tell the stories that changed them, and why one good conversation can be the first step toward healing. We talk abo...

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Wherever We May Roam - Travels With Jim and Rita