The Travel Is Real Alex Terpstra

Holy Cats! What an episode! My friend "James" (who wishes to remain anonymous due to an embarrassing story) recounts a regrettable experience regarding alcohol and a tattoo parlor. My guest and I then discuss the culture shock of traveling from Kenya to southern California to attend university. My friend details how he managed to navigate a completely new lifestyle in a wildly foreign setting from which he was not accustomed to.
Episode Highlights:
The Ill-Advised Tattoo  American Food Portions Learning the Collage Drinking Culture Benefits of a “Digital Nomad”

My guest Alex S. graces the podcast, and reflects on his state of mind when he decided to pack his bags and leave the corporate life in the USA, for a life in Bali. He explains how he took action to maximize his happiness, and he follows it up with a story about thieving monkeys. 
Episode Highlights:
The Journey Foward Insights and Reflections Maximize your Life for Happiness Thieving Monkeys Visit The Travel is Real Youtube channel for more video content. 

Sunny Ju graces the podcast this week and holy cats does she give a wild story. Turns out, getting lost in a massive, remote rainforest is easy. Unnervingly easy. Sunny illuminates  her experience on how she and three others struggled for survival for eight days in the jungle….with only two days of food. Its an amazing story of determination, confidence, and the will to live. She follows this cautionary tale, by discussing why she jumped out of corporate life in Germany, to work for herself in SouthEast Asia.
Check out Sunny's website to see what she is up to and her upcoming events: Sunnyju.com

Episode Highlights
Somethings not Right!? Things are Getting Bad Poacher's Hideout Jumping out of Corporate

Michael D. joins the podcast! This fine Brit recently moved to Bali to learn coding/programing, but before that, he had lived in Bangkok, Thailand for years! Too many years to count! Michael regales a travel story which he and his friends suffered through an incident, to which, could have put significant hurdles and roadblocks on their backpacking trip. But with luck, fortitude, and a specific purchase of a certain item, Mike and his friends had turned a terrible situation into an amazing few weeks backpacking in New Zealand. Mike also illustrates the most effective way to hunt for frogs at night, in northern Thailand.
Episode Highlights:
"Sorry Mom, I'm Not Coming Home" The Terrible Incident Rice Paddies and Car Batteries The Travel is Real Youtube channel for more video content.

In this episode, my guest Sophia and I discuss some of the more bizarre things one can expect to see in the city of Saigon. We then get into a bit more serious topic concerning what its like teaching English in South East Asia as black woman. This is a great episode to listen to, if you are keen on teaching English in another country, or interested in traveling to Asia.
Episode Highlights
Child Fire-breathers?!  American English? English English? Auzzie English? Racism Woes as an Expat

My friend, Hella, who is Co-owner of Canggu’s Camp 308 and quite the avid surfer graces the podcast. She first tells a story of how a near death experience fortuitously lead her to make a decision which brought her to BALI. She then illuminates what it's like to live and work on a very small tropical island. Turns out, it's harder than you think. 
Episode Highlights:
The Washing Machine Tropical Island Life and the Difficulties Freediving All Day!