Guiding Light Podcast

Eric and I sat down a while back and chatted about the 10 day long driving tour we took around Iceland. We drove the Ring Road counter clockwise and then did the western pennisula and the Golden Circle. We had a wonderful time during our trip and loved sharing it and helpful hints in this podcast. Check out the links to other material I have made for Iceland:

Iceland Ring Road travel video

Iceland Golden Circle travel video

Iceland travel guide

Iceland day 1 blog - The capital day

Iceland day 2 blog - Waterfall day

Iceland day 3 blog - Airplane wreck day

Iceland day 4 blog - Ice day

Iceland day 5 blog - Volcano day

Iceland day 6 blog - History day

Iceland day 7 blog - Day of Trolls

Iceland day 8 blog - Golden Circle

Iceland day 9 blog - Puffins & lava tubes

I have Rondal joining me today and we are talking about translation and languages, which is very helpful to the world traveler. Rondal has spent his entire career as a translator of the Bible and is more than qualified to discuss translation and languages.

The first half of his field work was done in Papua New Guinea, so we also cover that nation in-depth, which I find to be fascinating and very remote.

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Below are links to several of the subject matters we discuss in the podcast:

Pioneer bible translators

Switzerland

Papua New Guinea

Port Moresby

Madang

Africa

Crimea

Travisa

Polish language

Dagestan

Damon and his two kids, Ava & Dalton, join me today as we discuss traveling with kids and also we hear from both of them as they discuss their perspective on traveling. These kids are super adorable and really funny to listen to as they discuss where they have been, what they like, and where they want to go in the future.

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Some of the items we discussed are linked below for your convenience:

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Broken Bow Camp Ground

Orange Beach

Disney World

Crabbing in Galveston

Crater of Diamonds State Park

Six Flags of Texas

Working a fishing boat in Alaska

Lost In The Barrens book

The Boat Who Wouldn’t Float book

Hawaii

New York City

Two Story McDonolds in NYC

Statue of Liberty

Las Vegas

Paris

Eiffel Tower

Louvre Museum

Israel

Japan

Australia

The real Crocodile Dundee

Warren & Erica join me as we talk about their three-month road trip around the southwest USA in a pickup truck that Warren modified. We had a great time chatting about different places they visited and how they lived. Towards the end of the show we talked about their transistion onto a catamaran and what the new chapter in thier life entails. I think many of you will find some very useful information about some of the locations they visited, how to do a road trip like they did, and what it is like to move onto a boat.

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Below are links to different things we talk about in the podcast:

Topper EZ Lift

Luggable loo

How Not To Pee In Your Boots is the 6th chapter of a book called How To Shit In The Woods

Golden Fire Department

Southwest USA

Havasu Falls

Bryce Canyon NP

Arches NP

Zion NP

Lake Powell

Antelope Canyon

Horseshoe Bend

Grand Canyon NP

Sunset Crater Volcano National Monument

Wupatika National Monument

Meteorite Crater

Annual National Park Pass

Difference between Maine lobster and Caribbean lobster

Fountaine Pajot Lipari 41

Crowley

WEsail YouTube channel

I have Mike Bayer with me for this episode of the Guiding Light podcast and we talking about cruising with kids. He and his wife have chosen to take a year and cruise from Grenada to Florida with their two young girls in order to build stronger bonds as a family.

Plus we also talk about him and his wife traveling to SE Asia and going on safari in Africa before they had the girls.

It is super entertaining subjects and I hope you enjoy our banter for the next 50 minutes. Below you can see some of the links we talk about and as always I would love to read what you think of the episode.

Moose on the Loose (BayerFootTravels.com)

Sailing Totum

Cruising Guide For Kids

Blog about playing with local kids

Japan

Ticket to Ride

Settlers of Catan

China

Hong Kong

Macau

Singapore

Most powerful passport in the world

Kilimanjaro

Safari - Big 5

Corlette Wessels Photography

Grenada

Great Loop of America

Dry Tortugas

Cumberland Island

Skipper Bob Cruising Guide

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I have Greg and Susan talking about their first experience with blue water sailing, which they did with me as we sailed overnight from Trinidad to Grenada. They are very candid and honest about their first impressions with blue water sailing.

We also talked about Trinidad quite extensively as we had just spent two weeks there exploring bays and ashore. This will be a great lead in to the blogs I am about to write about Trinidad. So if we talk about a site of activity you want to learn more about then come back to the blog each day as I will be writing about each and every experience we had in Trinidad.

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We will be talking about Mongolia, Russia, and the Trans-Siberian Train in this podcast as my dad joins me to talk about the month long trip we took in 2016. In fact we had so much fun chatting, remembering, and sharing about our trip that it turned into a two parter. Part 2 we are talking about Yakutsk, Lena Pillars, Irkutsk, Lake Baikal, Vladivostok, the second half of our time on the Trans-Siberian train, and we finish with a tour around Mongolia with all the special sites there.

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As always, below are links to the different things we talk about in the podcast. I try to keep them in the same order as we discuss them to help you check something out in more detail if you like.

Russia

Yakutsk

Lena Pillars

World Heritage Site

Zoo in Yakutsk

Russian Alphabet

Irkutsk

Lake Baikal

Tran-Siberian Train

Vladivostok

Mongolia

TraVisa

Golden Gobi - tour guide and hostel

Amarbaysgalant Monastery

Karakorum

Erdene Zuu Monastery

Hujirt Hot Spring

Elsen Tasarkhai

Hustai National Park

Camels

We will be talking about Russia and the Trans-Siberian Train in this podcast as my dad joins me to talk about the month long trip we took in 2016. In fact we had so much fun chatting, remembering, and sharing about our trip that it turned into a two parter. In part 1 we are talking about St Petersburg, Moscow, Vladimir, Suzdal, and finish in Yakutsk while also talking about part of our time on the Trans-Siberian train.

I would love to hear your comments about this podcast and if you enjoyed it I hope you Subscribe above to make sure to keep up with each podcast as they come out.

As always, below are links to the different things we talk about in the podcast. I try to keep them in the same order as we discuss them to help you check something out in more detail if you like.

Russia

Story of my flight delay is due to Israel security

St Petersburg

Church of the Nativity

Hermitage (Winter Palace)

Russian Museum

Peter and Paul Fortress, church, and Tsar tombs

Russian Revolution

Peter The Great

Catherine The Great

Ivan The Terrible

Peterhof - summer palace

Château de Versailles

Red Arrow Express

Moscow

St Basil Church

Kremlin

Cold War

Bomb shelter in Moscow

Russian losses in WW2

Red Square

President Putin

We are talking about boat systems & electric motors with Joel James in this episode of the Guiding Light Podcast. Joel helped me chose to purchase a Lagoon 410, and we will walk through that process. Then we get into talking about boat systems including getting to know the different systems, the best practice when upgrading, and our thoughts. We talk about solar panels, batteries, plumbing, and other systems before we get into a lenghty discussion about electric engines and the pros and cons of such an upgrade.

With all that said I hope you join us in the podcast and I would love to read your comments below. Let me know what you think about our dicussion, electric engines, Lagoons, and this podcast in general. Thanks! As always below are links to some of the things we talk about:

Lagoon 410

Lagoon 380

Leopard 43

Kemah, TX

Grand Cayman

Solar power

Shore Power

Battery Isolator

Electric motors

Yanmar engines

Airhead composting toilets

Wire gauge

Amps, volts, & watts

Intracoastal Waterway (ICW)

Have you ever considered hosting a foreign exchange student? If so then this is the podcast you should listen to. Phil Cook joins me and talks all about the four girls he and his wife have hosted. He tells about the positives to him and his family along with the benefits to the exchange student.

During the discussion there are several things we talk about that I have references and links for below:

Foreign exchange student

Grand Canyon

Arkansas State Capitol

YFU - Youth For Understanding

Student visa (F1)