In this episode, Shandra recaps her experience couch surfing through Israel for a month straight. This means spending ZERO dollars on accommodation! It does come with costs though...

After another summer of impromptu travel (surprise surprise) through Israel and Italy, Shandra returns to the podcast studio at Boston University to welcome in another season of Sunshine on a Dime. She recaps a bit of her crazy summer and gives a sneak peek into what kinds of things to expect with the new season ahead.

In this episode Shandra is joined with Petra Udomprasert, a travel blogger, language educator, and slow traveler. Together they sit down to redefine slow travel (spoiler: it has nothing to do with time) and look at the reasons for why being more culturally conscious is essential to our planet. 

Traveling can get lonely sometimes. In this episode Shandra sits down with slow travel and slow fashion content creator Gi Shieh to chat about what loneliness can look like while abroad and why it’s not necessarily something to run from. 

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Host a Sister

Asian Wander Woman

Digital Nomads, Solo Female Travelers

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In this episode Shandra is joined by Mia Townsend, a traveling teacher and lover of cross-cultural connections. She explains how her life shifted after living abroad and how to create a career or even just a summer out of teaching English as a second language.

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Is it possible to be a full-time student AND travel the world? In this episode Shandra sits down with college student and travel content creator @bybellaleah to discuss whether it really is possible to travel and stay dedicated to studies at the same time. In this episode the two of them discuss how to tangibly achieve this balancing act. 

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In this episode Shandra recaps a recent solo trip she took to New York. She reveals the surprising mentality she uses while making friends on trips and the natural discomforts that accompany this. Yet, despite these discomforts, she explains why approaching strangers is essential to every trip because you never know who may change your life.

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What happens when that initial excitement of travel wears off and the go-go-go lifestyle isn’t as exciting as it was at the beginning of a trip? In this episode Shandra explains what travel burnout is and why every day of your travels simply can’t be the best day ever. She reveals this in her own experiences and how you can tackle travel burnout too. 

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In this episode, Shandra is joined with Michael Huxley, founder of the travel website Bemused Backpacker. As someone with over 20 years of experience traveling, Mike has a lot to share about the different dangers of travel and how to best prepare for a trip. They tackle topics of media portrayals, the validity of travel advisories and work to answer the question: how dangerous really is travel?

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