GoNOMAD Travel Podcast
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Take a few minutes to travel the world with The GoNOMAD Travel Podcast. Brought to you by the long-running GoNOMAD travel website, The GoNOMAD Travel Podcast brings you audio stories from destinations around the globe. It's short-form... 3-7 minute long episodes. No jarring AM radio-style theme songs, no ads, just an interesting short travel story and some food for thought, from editor Max Hartshorne. Fun!
While you're planning your next trip or travel adventure, download and listen to The GoNOMAD Travel Podcast.
While you're planning your next trip or travel adventure, download and listen to The GoNOMAD Travel Podcast.
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North Macedonia might be the 'dim sum of tourist destinations' says Max Johnson, a frequent traveler and former tour company man. He visited the country to see Lake Ohrid, one of Europe's deepest, Tetovo, and learned that Mother Teresa and Alexander the Great are the two touchstones.
Today we do a deep dive...into the planet Earth. We take a look at the deepest boreholes, mines and metro stations around the world until we find the deepest in history. Read the story on GoNOMAD https://www.gonomad.com/234077-deepest-underground-structures
Today on GoNOMAD we visit a rainforest in Costa Rica where they harvest cacao, the pod of which is used to make chocolate. Judy Karnia takes us through the tour and includes plenty of chocolate to take home, fair trade of course! Read the story on GoNOMAD.com https://www.gonomad.com/234092-costa-rica-a-rainforest-chocolate-tour
Chicago, America's Second City, is a fantastic city for a short break. We flew out at a moment's notice to enjoy the famous deep dish pizza, the Architecture tour by boat and comedy in Old Town. Come along for a fun weekend in Chi-town, today on the GoNOMAD Travel Podcast.
Sticking out into Lake Michigan, Door Peninsula in Wisconsin is a famous vacation spot and has been inhabited by the descendants of Scandinavian countries who began coming here in the 1800s. Today Door offers rafting, kayaking, hiking and a famous dive bar where Angostura bitters can be found. Cherries, too, are a big deal here.
Find out more about Door Peninsula Wisconsin on GoNOMAD.com
Just twenty miles north of Vermont, the Eastern Townships of Quebec are 15 separate towns that all offer farms to visit, some unique activities like Velo Velant, and dining where the food is grown right in front of you!
The exciting sport of F1 auto racing attracts 350,000 spectators to the Ile de Notre Dame in Montreal, where the 20 drivers race around the track that hugs the shape of the small urban island. Visiting Terrebonne, north of Montreal for historic mills and a great sports bar La Cage, with poutine.
Read more about Montreal on GoNOMAD.com
Orange is a small town in Western Massachusetts that once produced millions of sewing machines and even automobiles. But the town has seen hard times with most of its industry gone. But today there are many reasons to visit this hamlet, from the Orange Innovation Center to Lake Mattawa and the Bear's Den hike. Find out more about Nearby Orange today on the podcast.
Visiting Cambria, San Simeon and Ragged Point, California, where the emptiness and open space next to the Pacific are a tonic to the soul. Touring Hearst Castle, meeting the elephant seals, and walking the Moonstone Beach boardwalk. Read more about this destination on GoNOMAD.com travel.
Federica Petrilli spent four months living in Riyadh and found it to be one of easiest places in the world to live as a woman. Despite some of the restrictive laws that are being relaxed, she found the men chivalrous and the woman kind. Read her story on GoNOMAD.com https://www.gonomad.com/139881-saudi-arabia-why-i-loved-living-there-as-a-woman
Today we take a visit to one of Europe's truly unappreciated and cheapest places, the city of Varna on the Black Sea in Bulgaria. Mary Charlebois and Kevin Scanlon spent 8 weeks exploring Varna and share many details in their story, read more on GoNOMAD Travel. https://www.gonomad.com/230485-varna-a-pearl-on-the-black-sea-riviera
The Republic of Georgia is a unique country with its own alphabet and language, located just below Russia near the Black Sea. Take a ski trip to Gadauri, the country's largest ski resort in the mountains up north. The skiing is about as cheap as you can imagine and there are no trees on the slopes but plenty of snow.
There are many airlines who 'fly below the radar' of the American traveler. In this episode we explore some of the tiny and medium sized relatively unknown airlines who are taking Americans all around North America and beyond. Read the story by Kaelie Piscatello here https://www.gonomad.com/224147-us-airlines-you-need-to-know-about
Charlie and Kate are two English Park Rangers who have worked worldwide in the wilderness. How to become a park ranger and live around the world working in national parks. Read their story on GoNOMAD: https://www.gonomad.com/217219-rangering-around-the-world
Every year, we publish more than 300 full-length travel stories, with more than 200 different writers submitting their travel articles worldwide. We picked the top ten stories for 2023 based on the length of time reading and other factors. Read more and see the stories here https://www.gonomad.com/229387-best-travel-stories-of-2023
There's something about this remote island located off the coast of New Brunswick Canada that makes locals fall in love with it. A real fishing island full of lobstermen and old cod and herring fishing shacks, and it was the summer home of author Willa Cather. Read more about wonderful Grand Manan on GoNOMAD. https://www.gonomad.com/70094-grand-manan-the-queen-of-the-bay-of-fundy
Most travelers are looking for the same thing in a hotel room...yet many hotels still use landline phones, sewing kits, overcharged Wi-Fi, and too few plugs. Christopher Elliott wrote a feature on what we want and don't want in hotel rooms. Read more here https://www.gonomad.com/227944-dont-need-in-hotel
I am taking a small ferry boat the length of Lake Malawi, Africa's third largest lake. Ed Placidi stays the night on Likoma Island before heading north with a packed ferry. Read the story on GoNOMAD: https://www.gonomad.com/228099-a-legendary-african-ferry-on-lake-malawi
Near the city of Ancona in the Marche region of Eastern Italy, the village of Passetto has had famous beachside caves since the 1800s. GoNOMAD Travel Writer Cindy-Lou Dale met some of the lucky few who own these cave/beach houses of Passetto. See photos and read the story on GoNOMAD.com
https://www.gonomad.com/187958-ancona-the-impressive-caves-of-passetto-italy
Boquete Panama has 5000 expats and a thriving tourism and outdoor adventure scene. Discover this unheralded Central American country where things are cheap and people are friendly. Read more on GoNOMAD Travel https://www.gonomad.com/227220-boquete-and-chiriqui
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