Travel doesn't need you to photograph or social media every moment. Travel needs you to be fully present and to see it with real eyes: like I tried to do with Mother in Japan as we were fitted for kimonos and found strange vending machines. And, of course, a chat with Singer Songwriter Anais Mitchell about Hadestown and life on the road.

Thou Shalt Ignore Thy Smartphone

This fascinating travel podcast explores the world in a meaningful way as writer Daniel Scheffler (New York Times, Condé Nast, Wall Street Journal) takes a carefree and open approach to travel. Covering a variety of purposeful topics, each episode focuses on a specific theme framed as a travel commandment to guide listeners when traveling, regardless of wealth or comfort level. Everywhere reinvents the journey and invites you to open your mind and experience some humanity.

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Horseback across Mongolia's steppe for 10 days? No problem, but don't bring your check list, please. John Reede, from Aman Resorts agrees, in our interview. Just dump those lists please, and come and travel in the moment with yourself.

Thou Shalt Throw Out The CheckList

In the last episode of this season, Daniel Scheffler reflects on South Africa and has an extra long chat with his friend Richard Stengel (MSNBC pundit, author of a new book on Disinformation, former editor of Time magazine, and father to Ella's best friend Thandi).

Thou Shalt Find Meaning

Travel is all about borders - the physical, the spirital, the metaphorical and the emotional. Daniel Scheffler talks Margaret Atwood's novel, Handmaid's Tale, and has Sascha Fong from the UN talking about overcoming borders in Eritrea and LA Chef Nancy Silverton on borders from within.

Thou Shalt Break Down Borders

Daniel Scheffler wants us to take action on climate change and the environment right now - if Greta Thunberg can do it, so can all of us in our daily lives and whilst on the road. Governor Inslee from Washington and M. Sanjayan, the CEO of Conservation International also weigh in.

Thou Shalt Save The Fucking Planet

Daniel Scheffler discovers that preparing for anything leads to the best adventures. Anything can happen, serendipity will make sure of it, as he sees in in Burma. Shavo Odadjian from System of a Down weighs in on the Armenian Genocide and growing up in Los Angeles, and introducing the Canadian travel podcast "Alpaca My Bags."

Thou Shalt Ignore Thy Smartphone

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