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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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NordLayer published the Global Remote Work Index, which reveals 66 countries’ attractiveness in remote work. According to it, Germany, Denmark, and the US are the top three countries for remote work.

We discuss:

00:00 Top 5 Nations for Remote Working

05:30 Best for Arbitrage

11:00 Security

15:35 What is Nordlayer?

21:00 How to find remote work

The main takeaways are:

● European countries make up 8 of the top 10 places by providing the best remote work conditions.

● Strong competitors from Asia and the Americas are Singapore, South Korea, Canada, and Japan.

● African and Middle Eastern countries don’t make it into the top half of the ranking; the least ideal country for remote work is Algeria.

In WanderLearn Episode #217, I talk 22 minutes with Carlos Salas, an Engineering Manager at Nordlayer, to discuss the survey's details.

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Six years ago, Palle Bo, a Dane, sold most of his belongings to travel the world for years.

He lived in Cape Town and was hooked.

He's aiming to visit all 193 countries of the world. He's done 125 countries, just like me!

I share a series of interviews with him from 2023-2024 on this page.

Palle hosts the Radio Vagabond podcast! Subscribe to it!

1. Geopolitics: Harris vs. Trump, Ukraine, Taiwan, and Gaza

Palle Bo and I discuss the global hot spots and the US Presidential Election.

2. Why You Should Revisit Countries

Palle Bo shares the meaning of his name in various languages.

We share what we've been doing since we last met in Thailand.

Lastly, Palle shares why it's worth revisiting countries that gave you a negative impression the first time.

3. Greenland

Palle Bo is from Denmark, which controls Greenland. He's been to Greenland twice, and I was blessed to visit it in 2024. We share our thoughts.

4. Travel styles

What kind of traveler are you? Palle Bo and I discuss the variety of travel styles and the myth of how people who have been to many countries travel.

5. Thailand 2023

We recorded this at a TBEX conference.

Here's what we talk about:

00:00 Intro

04:30 Making the Radio Vagabond podcast

05:40 African surprises

08:00 Advantages of podcasting vs. vlogging

Subscribe to his Radio Vagabond podcast and start by listening to his most recent episode, which features someone you know!

Listen to an episode of the Radio Vagabond featuring Francis Tapon

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Chris Christensen, the host of the Amateur Traveler, has been podcasting about travel for 17 years.

He & I chat about:

00:00 3 favorite Amateur Traveler podcasts

02:40 3 Favorite Places

04:40 Future of Travel

06:05 Amateur Travel podcast

08:00 Podcast surprises

13:00 Travel plans

I've appeared several times in his podcast, and I hope to return to talk about Mauritania one day!

Listen to one of my earliest episodes, where Chris reveals how to create a top travel podcast.

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I interview Luke Hohmann, CEO & Founder of First Root.

Participatory Budgeting (PB) is a democratic process in which a group of students determines how to invest a shared budget to improve a school.

PB authentically motivates students to learn and practice the “Four Cs” of the 21st Century curriculum: creativity, critical thinking, communication, and collaboration — all while teaching design thinking, civics, and jump-starting their journey to increasing financial literacy.

Students experience actual agency and stewardship over their futures, learning through their own experiences how money works.

Participatory Budgeting creates several benefits for students, schools, and their communities:

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Ric Gazarian, the co-founder of the Extraordinary Travel Festival, shares why you should join us October 14-16, 2022!

I'll be speaking at the ETF, along with 20 other speakers!

It's $399, but if you use the promo code FT, you get $50 off!

The code expires on October 6, 2022.

It's a perfect opportunity to visit Armenia.

I'll be going to neighboring Georgia after the festival.

I welcome you to join me.

In the podcast, we allay your security concerns.

My 40-minute speech outline

1. Bought truck & burnt the boat that brought me to Africa
2. Mission to climb the tallest peak in all 54 African countries
3. Gambia's tallest peak & maybe
3. Meeting Rejoice
4. Story about hiking Chad mt & Libya mt
5. Going thru Darfur
6. 3000 hitchhikers
7. Near success

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Sym Blanchard is one of my favorite human beings!

Below you'll see our 90-min conversation broken up into 9 WanderLearn episodes.

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1. How To Save Money When Traveling with Sym Blanchard

Get travel tips from Sym Blanchard.
He's been vagabonding for several years.
If you don't mind trading comfort for increasing your travel time, then these are ten valuable minutes that you must listen to!

00:00 Intro
01:11 Hotels & Hostels
06:35 Airlines
8:40 Car rentals

#travel #save #cheap

2. What's the Truth About Ukraine?

Sym Blanchard volunteered near the Ukraine border to help refugees.
We talk about what's the truth about Ukraine.
What's going on?
What do Ukrainians & Russians want?

What's happening in Ukraine, and why is it so hard to uncover the truth?

CORRECTION: In the podcast, I say that 25% of Ukraine is ethnically Russia. That's wrong. It was 17.3% in the 2001 census (the latest data). In the Donetsk (eastern) Ukraine region, ethnic Ukrainians make up 56.9 %, and ethnic Russians are 38.2 % of the population.

3. Who Will Win the 2024 USA Presidential Election?

Sym Blanchard, who listens to more news podcasts than any man alive, discusses who might win the 2024 USA Election for President.

Francis Tapon struggles to get an answer from him, but we have a fun discussion.

4. Hiking, Genealogy, Mont Blanc, Languages, & China with Sym Blanchard

Sym Blanchard and I discussed where he's been traveling this year and his plans. That leads us to talk about chasing your genealogy and these other topics:

00:00 Hiking in Spain & Triple Crown
07:00 Why seek your genealogy
08:30 Mont Blanc
13:00 Language learning
15:35 China