Month: October 2026
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A Shaky Start in Panama
Starting over in another country sounds romantic until you’re living it day to day. In this episode, Rita and I talk with Roy McGinnis and Julie Tallman about what it really takes to move to Pedasí, Panama and start an expat life from scratch. They sold their rental properties, closed down a farm in North…
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Bag The Fish
A Step-By-Step Guide to Salmon en Papilotte Cooking food wrapped in something is about as old as cooking itself. People were steaming fish in leaves, clay, and bark long before anyone owned an oven. The French version, en papillote, is just the dressed-up cousin of that idea. Papillote originally meant a twist or wrapper of paper. It’s the…
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A Double-Butted Adventure
A tandem bicycle trip across the United States sounds like a cute travel fantasy until you put it on a calendar, start training, and realize the road does not care about your mood. Teri M. Brown proves that point by riding from Astoria, Oregon to Washington, D.C. in the summer of 2020, when travel restrictions…
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Under The African Sun
Overland travel in Africa has a way of stripping life down to the essentials: movement, timing, luck, and the people you meet when the plans fall apart. In this episode, Rita and I talk with veteran broadcast journalist Barry Maughan about a genuine “pinch me” journey across the African continent in a Volkswagen Kombi bus.…
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Sailing Through Life
Selling everything to sail around the world sounds romantic until you hear what it actually costs. It isn’t just the money. It’s your identity, your routines, and the comfort of having a backup for everything. In this episode, Rita and I talk with Alison Gieschen and her husband Dan, who traded a successful equestrian life…
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Storytelling and Travel as a Path to Healing
Life doesn’t follow a map, and I think that’s exactly why this conversation stuck with me long after we stopped recording. Rita and I sat down with Shannon Lampkin, a travel storyteller, author, and podcast host who started “Travel Time Stories” as a show about adventure and then watched it turn into something bigger —…
