This first episode is a little bit about my 3 experiences travelling long term: working in Ireland, as an intern in West Africa, and backpacking the world for a year. Thanks for welcoming me into your ears with this new podcast (has anyone ever thanked you for that?!).

Head over to www.libbyj.ca for show notes and more.

Travelling Minds is a podcast that explores long-term travel. Whether it's sabbaticals, working abroad, volunteering abroad, backpacking, housesitting, teaching English or straight up vagabonding, I am interviewing people about their experiences in far flung places. I want to know where people have gone, what they've done, and why they left home in the first place.

Whether you are looking for a long-term or an armchair travel adventure, traveling minds are splashed around the world and we'll find out where.

• Modern Gonzo: http://mg.mettamedia.ca/finish-the-sentence/
• SWAP (Student Working Abroad Program): http://www.swap.ca
• More about Benin? Start here.
• More about our "year off" in the Cook Islands, New Zealand, China, Japan, Korea and Canada? Start here.
• Special thanks to Mark Dyck, who inspired this project with his bakers podcast, Rise Up!