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Take a profound and distant journey. Call it:

Deep Travel
Immersive Travel
Slow Travel
Vagabonding

I will guide you to the intersection of travel, technology, and transformation.

The WanderLearn podcast will compel you to go beyond your comfort zone.

I wander all over the world and I share what I learn with you! In so doing, I hope you'll be inspired to do the same. Travel is the best university.

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Whenever anyone has visited over 150 countries, I'm impressed, but probably not for the reasons you think.

To get to 150, you had to have gone through some shithole countries. Those countries may not be warzones, but they are sketchy. They may have hard to get visas. They may be dangerous. They're definitely not tourist-friendly.

To visit 100 countries, you can avoid challenging countries. However, to get to 150 (there are 193 countries, according to the UN), you must go to no-go zones.

Still, some people find an easy way. They fly into the capital, take a secure taxi into and out of the city, fly home, and declare victory.

In Africa, for example, you can do that with the DR Congo, the Central African Republic, and South Sudan. Their capitals are usually pretty tame even though the rest of their countries are not. Same goes for Syria.

That's why overland journeys are, in my opinion, usually more interesting than jet-setting world tours.

And that's why a bike journey around the world is truly jaw-dropping.

And we're talking a bicycle, not a motorcycle.

Patrick Martin Schroder has biked to over 150 countries. He has climbed many of their highest peaks. He paraglides. And sometimes he even skips breakfast.

Watch the interview

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Europeans evangelized about Christianity.

Nowadays, one European is promoting something more secular: the gospel of basketball.

Meet Toni Rodriguez.

For the last few years, he has been traveling through most of Africa with several basketballs in his car and not much else.

He really had a shoestring budget.

Listen to this podcast to hear how this Spaniard pulled it off.

Update: We recorded the podcast a couple of weeks ago when he was still in Africa. Tony is now back in Spain. He wasn't able to get through Sudan, so he drove back to Southern Africa and flew back to Spain.

You can review his journey at:

https://www.facebook.com/Titotonirodriguez

https://www.instagram.com/afroamericanquillo

https://twitter.com/ubrooklyn3x3

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Do you dream of doing a mega-bike trip? Is biking across the United States or Europe just not ambitious enough for you? Do you love repairing flat tires?

Then listen to Xavier Himma describe his epic bicycle trip from his home in Canada to southern Argentina. You learn:

How many flat tires he got. (Try to guess now!)
How a Latino tried to mug him while he was riding the bike!
How close he got to getting run over.
Why he calls his adventure "Follow the Hum of the Earth"
How he skipped the Darrien Gap.

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Last year, I stayed in Cairo's Sheraton hotel. I spoke with two representatives to learn about the dirty underbelly of running a luxury hotel in Egypt.

I asked them:

When was the last terrorist act in Cairo?
What's hard about running a 5-star hotel that most people don't think about?
How can Egyptians run a casino when Islam forbids gambling?
At 22:00, when the hotel realizes they won't sell out their rooms, why don't they just drop the price to $40 to at least make a little bit of money rather than lose money with the unused inventory?

For some background, read my article on Forbes.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/francistapon/2018/02/04/luxury-hotel-face-off-in-cairo-sheraton-versus-the-four-seasons-plaza/#5c754c0385fb

And see this YouTube video:

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Tomas Higbey has been an environmentalist for over 2 decades. In this 45-minute profound and sometimes funny conversation, I debate environmentalism with him to get a rise out of him.

Listen to find out what he thinks is the:

Most important environmental problem we're facing.
Solution to global climate change.
Elephant in the room regarding the environment.
Urge to reproduce - are men and women different?

In the 2nd half of the conversation, we discuss some of his travels, specifically:

Chile, where Tomas lived for 5 years.
Africa, where Tomas traveled and worked in. He was in Somalia when there was a serious war going on.

Tomas is witty and always fun to listen to.

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A skeptical teenager named Wolf asked me a bunch of questions about Bitcoin, so since his parents are one of my patrons, I am happy to address them.

The WanderLearn podcast focuses on travel, tech, and transformation, so Bitcoin fits in there.

Moreover, Bitcoin has important travel implications, especially when you go to places that have sanctions and other controls.

One hour before I recorded this episode, Bitcoin passed $10,000 - an important milestone. I recommended buying it in Dec 2018, when it was $3,500. I predicted it would double in 2019. If it drops to $7,500, I will be right!