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Matt Wilson is Co-founder and CEO of Under30Experiences, and the author of The Millennial Travel Guidebook.

Today Matt shares his experience traveling the world for the lsat decaide in MTP22: Solo Travel Destinations in South America.

Read the full article: https://www.under30experiences.com/blog/solo-travel-destinations-in-south-america

Reach out to Matt on Instagram: @mattwilsontv

Matt Wilson is Co-founder and CEO of Under30Experiences, and the author of The Millennial Travel Guidebook.

Today Matt shares his experience traveling the world for the last decade in MTP21: Solo Travel Destinations in Mexico, Central America, & the Caribbean. Matt lived in Central America between 2012 and 2019.

Read the full article: https://www.under30experiences.com/blog/solo-travel-destinations-in-mexico-central-america-the-caribbean

Follow Matt on Instagram @mattwilsontv

Matt Wilson, is Co-founder and CEO of Under30Experiences, and author of The Millennial Travel Guidebook. Today Matt shares his experience seeing all 50 states in the USA as he explains the top solo travel destinations in the United States! Read the full article: https://www.under30experiences.com/blog/the-top-solo-travel-destinations-in-the-united-states Follow Matt: instagram.com/mattwilsontv

Hannah Pinkerton is a full-time vanlifer, blogger at Destined for Adventure, Spanish teacher at Speak Better Spanish, and Community Manager and Trip Leader at Under30Experiences. She's been location independent since 2015 and traveling outside the United States since 2018. Hannah also is a Location Independence Coach helping others do the same. She lives with her 4 cats and 5 dogs in her converted camper van as a solo female traveler in Mexico!

Hannah gives me everything I need to know about how to live in a van and make money!

In this episode of The Millennial Travel Podcast I discuss with Hannah Pinkerton:

• Van life essentials.
• How much van life costs in Mexico.
• How to live in a van full time.
• How to live in a van and make money.
• How much converting her van cost in Mexico?
• What is the cost of living in Mexico?
• Some fun van travel hacks
• What is life like as an expat in Mexico?
• How safe is traveling in Mexico?
• How is the healthcare system in Mexico?
• How did Hannah find a mechanic for her van in Mexico?
• What is the difference between living in a tiny house and van life?
• What is the slow travel movement?
• Where do you go to the bathroom when you live in van?
• How Hannah started adopting animals and bringing them into her van.
• How you can help adopt a dog or cat from Hannah!

Resources from Hannah:

• Destined for Adventure Blog
• @DestinedforAdventure on Instagram
• Hannah's Vanlife YouTube
• Safety Wing Insurance for Nomads
• Speak Better Spanish
• @SpeakBetterSpanish on Instagram

You can find all the links and past show notes on millennialtravelpodcast.com

Direct support for The Millennial Travel Podcast comes from The Millennial Travel Guidebook: Escape More, Spend Less, & Make Travel a Priority in Your Life.

Looking for more great content? Check out The Ultimate Guide to Solo Travel.

Matt Wilson, is Co-founder and CEO of Under30Experiences, and author of The Millennial Travel Podcast.

Today Matt shares his experience traveling the world for the last decade in the Ultimate Guide to Solo Travel.

Read the full article: https://www.under30experiences.com/blog/solo-travel-guide

Follow Matt on Instagram @mattwilsontv.

Mark Peacock is the host of the TravelCommons podcast, one of the longest running travel radio shows on the internet. Mark has been a frequent business traveler for more than 30 years. He travels all over the world for high-tech companies and management consultancies.

Mark Peacock's first TravelCommons podcast was recorded in May 2005 in the bathroom of the Wardman Park Marriott in Washington, DC. Originally, TravelCommons was going to be travel blog, but Mark turned out producing the "Voice of the Traveler" podcast. Ask Mark frequently says, "it is more about the journey than the destination."

Mark has lived all over the United States, and is currently living in Chicago for the third time with his wife and two kids.

In this episode of The Millennial Travel Podcast I discuss with Mark Peacock:

• How Mark started a travel podcast and hosts one of the oldest travel podcasts on the internet.
• How Mark started TravelCommons podcast in a hotel bathroom in 2005 and what has kept him going.
• How does Mark get any work done while traveling? Does travel spark creativity?
• How technology interrupts our ability to chat with the people around us while traveling.
• Why Mark advises his family not to travel during "rush hour" in airports on Monday mornings and Thursday evenings.
• Should you invest in TSA Precheck?
• Why Mark always focuses on flying with one airline, goes to the airline lounges, and has the airport credit cards.
• Does Mark get upgraded as a frequent business traveler and is airline status worth it? Why is it more difficult to get upgrades these days?
• Mark Peacock's tips for rental cars. Should you lock in your gas price with a rental car company? Is it worth it?
• What are some of Mark's craziest travel stories as a business traveler?
• Mark's tips for traveling during the winter and having backup plans.

The Millennial Travel Podcast Rapid Fire Questions I ask Mark Peacock:

• Favorite domestic airport
• • Terminal 2 in San Francisco
• Favorite international airport
• Favorite airline
• Favorite booking website
• • Direct with airlines, but search with Google
• Favorite travel bloggers
• • Craig and Linda Indie Travel Podcast past Millennial Travel Podcast guests!
  • Chris Christensen Amateur Traveler another past podcast guest of ours!
  • Flyer Talk--The World's Most Popular Frequent Flyer Website
  • The Cranky Flyer--an airline industry blog
  • Boarding Area--required reading for frequent flyers

Resources from Mark Peacock:

• TravelCommons.com
• Twitter @Mpeakcock
• Facebook TravelCommons
• Instagram @TravelCommons

You can find all the links and past show notes on millennialtravelpodcast.com

Direct support for The Millennial Travel Podcast comes from The Millennial Travel Guidebook: Escape More, Spend Less, & Make Travel a Priority in Your Life.

Looking for more great content? Check out The Ultimate Guide to Solo Travel.

Casey Fenton is the founder of Couchsurfing, a global travel community, especially great for solo travelers. Casey helped to spearhead the sharing economy & grow the platform to over 20 million users worldwide. I consider the platform to be one of the best domestic and international travel hacks and for solo travel on a budget. Casey is also co-founder of Upstock, a cloud-based platform to give employee equity in the company they work for.

If you don't know the meaning of "couch surfing" it's basically where you stay on someone's couch when traveling. The platform Couchsurfing however doesn't mean you have to sleep on someone's couch… The point of Couchsurfing is to "share authentic travel experiences" and your host will put you up in their home absolutely free.

In this episode of The Millennial Travel Podcast I discuss with Casey Fenton, Founder of Couchsurfing:

• His story going to Iceland
• • How a trip to Iceland was an impetuous for him starting Couchsurfing and us starting Under30Experiences.
  • The story of how Couchsurfing started
  • How Casey flew to Iceland as a solo traveler and decided to find a couch to sleep on with locals
  • Why Casey loves Iceland and has traveled their five times
  • The quick story how Under30Experiences started.
• Why Casey Fenton is starting his new company in Iceland and is mentoring Iceland Startups
• How they picked the name "couchsurfing".
• How Casey Fenton got the "travel bug" and considered himself an explorer.
• How he got over a break up by traveling and buying plane tickets to random places.
• Casey Fenton's formula for intensity, diversity, and frequency of experience, and how he got out of his comfort zone.
• His idea for "hacking destiny".
• What Casey Fenton learned about himself traveling?
• • He learned to be less shy, and improved himself.
• Some examples of how Casey traveled to different places and how Couchsurfing was a great travel hack for saving money
• Casey Fenton's idea of "ego hacking".
• • The book that opened up Casey's eyes that we are all sleep.
  • How a silly fight with his best friend opened his eyes to a lot of things about life.
  • Casey's idea of a "feedback ratio".
  • Why it's important to have ego and how we can use it as a tool.
  • How we can avoid suffering through non-attachment
• How to learn to trust yourself more and let others trust you.
• Casey finishes talking about his startup Upstock and how you can incentivize employees with equity to anyone in your company with his tool.

Resources from Casey Fenton:

• Book: In Search of the Miraculous
• Couchsurfing.com
• Upstock.io
• CaseyFenton.com to sign up his newsletter

You can find all the links and past show notes on millennialtravelpodcast.com

Direct support for The Millennial Travel Podcast comes from The Millennial Travel Guidebook: Escape More, Spend Less, & Make Travel a Priority in Your Life... and from our new USA hiking and camping trips at Under30Experiences!

Scott Keyes is the founder and CEO of Scott's Cheap Flights. In 2013, he found a flight deal he just can't pass out on—a $130 round trip ticket from New York City to Milan. When he returned home, his friends and colleagues asked him to let them know the next time he finds a great deal. In a nutshell, that's how Scott's Cheap Flights came about.

Scott's Cheap Flights newsletter aims to enable people to travel and see and experience the world. Unlike automated flight deals and alerts sent out by way of affiliated links, they leverage their team of human flight experts and innovative software to provide meticulously-vetted and high quality deals that are worth their members' time and money. Some are even mistake fares!

To date, Scott's Cheap Flights has more than 2 million members (and growing each day!). The total amount of airfare their deals have helped members save is already at a whopping $100 million! Scott's Cheap Flights is run by a remote team with members situated in many parts of the world. Undoubtedly, they are making people's travel dreams attainable, one deal at a time!

So far, Scott has visited a total of 46 countries. He lists Oaxaca, Mexico as his favorite destination. He runs Scott's Cheap Flights with co-founder and COO, Brian Kidwell.

Personally, I recommend the Scott's service in The Millennial Travel Guidebook and gave Scott's Cheap Flights great review. Many people have asked if Scott's Cheap Flights Premium is worth it, and I always say yes. Scott's Cheap flights is very legitimate--their mission is to enable people to travel and experience the world!

In this episode of The Millennial Travel Podcast I discuss with Scott Keyes of Scott's Cheap Flights:

• How to use Scott's Cheap Flights.
• How to find cheap flights.
• When and when to find cheap flights.
• Is Scott's Cheap Flights good for domestic travel or/or international flights?
• Scott also shares what the 24-hour rule is, the holy grail of the cheap flights world, and the cheapest time to book a flight.
• Travel hacking booking flights.
• Where to find cheap flights last minute
• What apps and travel hacks does Scott Keyes use?
• What blogs or other resources does Scott read?
• • TravelisFree.com
  • View from the Wing with Gary Leff

On finding the best flight deals, Scott has this to say, "The better the deal is, the shorter it's going to last. So finding about them early and being able to book early is really really key."

Resources from Scott Keyes:

• Sign up for Scott's Cheap Flights
• Scott's Cheap Flights on Twitter @ScottsFlights
• Instagram @ScottsCheapFlights
• Facebook Scott's Cheap Flights
• Scott's Cheap Flights Facebook Community
• Scott Keyes' new book: Take More Vacations: How to Search Better, Book Cheaper, and Travel the World

You can find all the links and past show notes on millennialtravelpodcast.com

Direct support for The Millennial Travel Podcast comes from The Millennial Travel Guidebook: Escape More, Spend Less, & Make Travel a Priority in Your Life... and from our new USA hiking and camping trips at Under30Experiences!

Rolf Potts is a legendary travel writer, who's book Vagabonding: An Uncommon Guide to the Art of Long-Term World Travel has been a classic piece of travel writing for many years. Rolf's writing has appeared in National Geographic, The Guardian, Outside, The New Yorker, and Sports Illustrated. Potts has been part of creative writing workshops and/or taught classes at places like Paris American University, University of Pennsylvania, and Yale University.

In addition to travel writing and his Vagabonding success, Rolf Potts' adventures have taken him across six continents, and include piloting a fishing boat 900 miles down the Laotian Mekong, hitchhiking across Eastern Europe, traversing Israel on foot, bicycling across Burma, driving a Land Rover across South America, and traveling around the world for six weeks with no luggage or bags of any kind.

Potts is also the author of Marco Polo Didn't Go There: Stories and Revelations From One Decade as a Postmodern Travel Writer and the new edition of Vagabonding includes a foreword from Tim Ferriss. Most recently Rolf has launched his own podcast called "Deviate".

Rolf leaves the listeners with some final advice encouraging them to travel and reminding them that its not as difficult or as dangerous as they might think.

In this episode of The Millennial Travel Podcast we discuss:

• What does it mean to be "time rich" versus most people travel in such a hurry?
• • Rolf Potts explains how he taught English in Korea
• What does Rolf Potts think about the digital nomad movement?
• Why do people want to go back in time for nostalgic reasons when they travel?
• A quick story of when Rolf Potts got lost getting off the beaten path.
• How people can cut the cord on their smartphone while traveling.
• How can people truly disconnect, so they don't get burned out?
• How to make your "vacation your vocation".
• What can we learn from the "slow food movement" or "slow travel movement"?
• How can people afford to travel more often and travel for longer?
• • Travel to cheaper places
  • He lives in Kansas because of the low cost of living, so he can afford to travel more often
• What is Rolf Potts' life like in Kansas and what does he appreciate about it?
• • Rolf is from Kansas and learned to appreciate what he has at home.
• How does an old school traveler like Rolf Potts feel about Instagram culture in travel?

The Millennial Travel Podcast Rapid Fire Questions:

• If Rolf Potts could go to one bar tomorrow what would it be?
• • McGlinchey's in Philadelphia or a Korean soju tent
• If Rolf Potts could take six months to travel anywhere where would he go?
• • The United States because it's such a large, diverse country
• What is Rolf Potts favorite US National Park?
• • Olympic National Park in Washington
• Rolf Potts favorite piece of travel gear?
• • You don't need any luggage to have a good time, so he said good shoes or a smartphone.

Resources:

• Rolf Potts' best seller: Vagabonding
• Rolf Potts' book Marco Polo Didn't Go There: Stories and Revelations from One Decade as a Postmodern Travel Writer (Travelers' Tales Guides)
• Rolf Potts' book Souvenir (Object Lessons)
• Rolf Potts podcast Deviate
• @RolfPotts on Instagram
• @RolfPotts on Twitter
• His website rolfpotts.com

Listen to the full episode on Apple Podcasts, Stitcher, Soundcloud, or Spotify.

You can find all the links and past show notes on millennialtravelpodcast.com

Direct support for The Millennial Travel Podcast comes from The Millennial Travel Guidebook: Escape More, Spend Less, & Make Travel a Priority in Your Life... and from our new USA hiking and camping trips at Under30Experiences!

Daniel Noll and Audrey Scott are the husband-and-wife storytelling team behind Uncornered Market Adventurers, world travelers, adventurers, storytellers, and tourism advisors from the US and based in Berlin. They have been to over 90 countries and are two of my very favorite people in tourism.

Their goal is to create a movement of respectful travelers and organizations who live at the intersection of adventure, deep travel experiences, and caring for our planet and its people. We hope not just to inspire, but to help others build a story-filled life, whether that life takes them around the block…or around the world.

Today, we speak about Sustainable tourism & adventure travel that cares for our planet & its people. This topic is one that I'm super passionate about as Daniel and Audrey are owners of a tourism development consultancy & travel blog.

They aim to humanize the places we visit, drawing our readers in through photographs and stories, so they connect with people and places they might otherwise never hear about or actively disregard. In turn, through their personal interactions, we seek to alter the view of America that people get from watching the news, taking in movies, or watching popular television shows. Call this our small contribution to public diplomacy and mutual understanding in today's complicated world.Dan took his first trip abroad at the ripe old age of 26. He went to India by himself, discovered another planet located on Earth, and fell terribly ill (dengue fever). He eventually recovered and has struggled with various bouts of the travel bug ever since.

Audrey has successfully managed projects in over twenty countries – often remotely – but prefers to be on the ground working directly with the people affected.

Coming from a family tradition in international work that goes back three generations, her international focus in life is not a surprise to those who know her well. She looks for everyday universal experiences when she travels and aims to make personal connections with people and cultures in varied environments. She has a weakness for dark chocolate and can bake a mean apple crisp.

If you want to know how this travel couple affords to travel the world, they break it down in three ways on their website:

• Tourism Development and Marketing Advisory
• Speaking at Conferences and Universities
• Affiliate sales and website advertising

In this episode of The Millennial Travel Podcast we discuss:

• How Daniel Noll and Audrey Scott started traveling off the beaten path.
• Where first-time solo travelers should travel.
• Their opinion on Machu Picchu and how we can combat overtourism.
• Alternative treks to the Inca Trail
• How does travel really change people's lives and how has traveled changed Daniel Noll and Audrey Scott's life?
• How has travel pushed Daniel Noll and Audrey Scott to become better people?
• How can people make an impact while traveling or volunteering in a sustainable way.

In The Millennial Travel Podcast rapid fire round I ask:

• Favorite travel resource
• • Daniel: Kayak.com
  • Audrey: Nomadic Matt's and Jodi from Legal Nomads
• Country that has made the most impact on them
• • Audrey: Kyrgyzstan
  • Daniel: India
• Favorite international dish
• • Daniel: Masala dosa in India or sushi
  • Audrey: Homemade pasta in Tuscany

Resources:

• UncorneredMarket.com
• @uncornered_market on Instagram
• @umarket on Twitter

Direct support for The Millennial Travel Podcast comes from The Millennial Travel Guidebook: Escape More, Spend Less, & Make Travel a Priority in Your Life and our new USA camping and hiking trips from Under30Experiences!