In this interview episode, we spoke with Chantell Glenville from Travel for Your Life. Chantell is a travel-blogging, travel-writing 30-year-old from England who has been traveling since she was 18 years old. She has traveled both short- and long-term.

During our interview, she was located in Indonesia and has been traveling through Asia for two years-- and loving it! Chantell even drank wine with us: a Hatten Argo White Wine, to be exact! Here is a summation of what we talk about in this episode:

• Why she thoroughly enjoys traveling Her two books, including her new book titled Travel For Your Life, which is about how to quit your job and travel the world
• Her experience working in a career and how it spurred her to quit and travel the world
• Her travel experiences in places like Vietnam, India, Indonesia, Sri Lanka, and more!
• The difference between backpacking through and living in countries
• What it's like learning languages when living abroad
• The culture-shock in Asia, especially in Vietnam

Thank you so much for chatting with us, Chantell!

For our readers/listeners, be sure to check out her blog here.

And her book on Amazon.

Here is our blog post for this interview.

Thank you for listening! Cheers and happy travels!

Wine: Quinta Las Cabras - Cabernet Sauvignon (Chile)

In this episode, we interviewed Candace and Spencer from 360 Honeymoon. Candace and Spencer met in South Africa during a safari guiding course. They got married in June of 2016 and since then, have been "honeymooning" throughout the world and will continue to do so indefinitely! In this episode, we cover tons of topics, like:

• How they met and why they travel for their long-term "honeymoon"
• Their many adventures abroad, both separate and together
• Their current housesitting experience in Costa Rica, complete with sloths!
• The life of being digital nomads
• What it's like to Amtrak throughout the United States
• Helpful and inspiring advice to aspiring travelers

Be sure to check out their amazing blog right here. Thanks again, Candace and Spencer!

Thank you, the listeners, as well for tuning in! Also, here is our blog post for this episode.

Cheers and happy travels!

Wine: Yosemite Road - Cabernet Sauvignon (California, USA)

Matt and Marilyn were fortunate enough to interview Amanda and Ryan from The World Wanderers. Amanda and Ryan are an incredible traveling duo from Canada who travel the world much like we do! In this podcast, we discuss:

• Amanda and Ryan's travels throughout the globe
• Their experience of going from traveling to working 9-5 jobs...and then traveling again!
• Their overall love and admiration for the traveling lifestyle
• The culture shock they felt in Bangkok and Bolivia
• Families' and friends' reactions to their wandering around the globe and their love of travel
• Positives & negatives of traveling both solo and together
• Advice for aspiring travelers

Thank you again, Amanda and Ryan! Be sure to check out their awesome blog here.

Their podcast episodes can be found here.

And, for funsies, here's their interview with us where we mainly discuss teaching English abroad!

Wine: Pudú - Chardonnay (Chile)

Throughout our travels, Matt and I have discovered that each country and city has its own personal and unique nightlife. We have done our best to discover and experience the nightlife in every place we've gone the most we could. We felt that nightlife is such a huge part of traveling and we should cover it one at least one of our podcasts!

In the episode, we discuss:

• Nightlife in Bangkok, Koh Samui, and Krabi in Thailand
• Going to a strip club in Krabi and being the most popular people there!
• Matt dancing on stage while wearing a stripper's top-- with the stripper!
• Buckets of alcohol in Thailand
• Iguanas and monkeys on the beaches of Koh Samui
• The nightlife in our city, Sejong, and in Seoul
• Why Seoul is our favorite nightlife in the world to date
• Eating Korean barbeque at 12 AM and clubbing until 7 AM in Seoul
• The rather dull nightlife in Ho Chi Minh City, but the bumpin' backpacker street of Bui Vien
• Nightlife in both Osaka and Tokyo in Japan
• Getting into clubs in Tokyo and how they are a real pricey hassle!
• A ranking of our favorite places and least favorite places based on the nightlife

And more! Check out our blog post here for more information and tons of fun pictures!

Thank you for listening. Cheers and happy travels!

Wine: Sibilia - Vino Rosso (Italy)

Matt and Marilyn interview Kathy from Walk About Wanderer. Kathy talks about her experiences abroad, such as her scariest moment while traveling, most exciting moment, and other great pieces of information about her and some travel tips as well. She even chose to drink half a bottle of wine with us!

You can check her out at her website, which is full of all of her many travel experiences and tons of travel tips here.

Here's our blog post on Kathy.

Thank you for listening! Cheers and happy travels!

Wine: Luis Felipe Edwards - Cabernet Sauvignon (Chile)

To kick off our interview series, Matt and I made a podcast where we interviewed each other so you could learn a little more about us. Both of us prepared questions ahead of time, but didn't share with each other what questions we came up with so that we'd be just as surprised by our answers as you! We asked each other various questions about things like:

• Our travels in Thailand, Vietnam, Japan, South Korea, and more

• What some of our favorite meals were while abroad

• What our scariest moments were

• Living abroad and why we do it

• Our goals for traveling in the future

And much more, of course! Have a listen! You won't regret it!

Here's the blog post for this episode!

Thank you for listening! Cheers and happy travels!

Wine: Pudú - Cabernet Sauvignon Shiraz (Chile)

Matt and Marilyn discuss the rest of their travels through Vietnam. In this podcast, we talked about the last part of our backpacking excursion through Vietnam. We left off at Da Nang last time and starting with Hue in this one. In this episode, we talked about:

• Hue and why we personally very much disliked it and its unique food
• Why we didn't explore much of Hue
• Phong Nha, a national park in Vietnam known for its caves
• Our exploration without a tour guide into a less popular cave named The Phong Nha cave (how convenient!) and how we got there
• The spectacular views on the boat ride there, inside the cave, and back
• How Matt and I got someone kicked off of a sleeper bus
• Our bus ride to our next destination, Ninh Binh, and how we arrived three hours earlier than we expected-- at 3 AM
• One of the greatest AirBNBs we'd ever stayed at and some of the greatest food we'd ever had
• Our boat ride through Trang An, it's most popular attraction, and how it completely blew us away
• Poor Matt's sudden diarrhea while on a row boat in Trang An and how he magically found a toilet in the middle of a jungle!
• The breath-snatching nature just a five-minute walk from our AirBNB
• Hanoi and the backpacker area
• Our one-day tour of Halong Bay and why it disappointed us a bit
• Kayaking on Halong Bay and discovering yet another cave
• Some of the greatest sandwiches we ever had in our lives in Hanoi
• A night out with a couple of new people we met

Thank you for reading/listening! If you'd like to know more about our backpacking adventure and see some spectacular pictures, check out the blog post!

If you missed Part 1 of our adventure, check it out here!

Cheers and happy travels!

Wine: Viña Albali - Tempranillo (Spain)

Matt and I had the incredible opportunity to backpack throughout the country of Vietnam! During our backpacking excursion, we discovered how truly beautiful and diverse the country is. In this episode, we talked about our adventure, including topics such as:

• Where we went during the first half of our trip
• Where we stayed and links to our exact cheap AirBNBs
• Why sleeper buses sound fantastic in theory, but are actually the worst, especially if you're taller than average
• Mui Ne and why it completely blew us away with its beaches, food, views, and sporadic sand dunes
• Our bus ride from Mui Ne to Da Lat and why we were terrified for our lives
• The views from the horrifying bus rides
• Da Lat-- why it's one of our top favorite places in Vietnam and the many places and things it has to offer, such as The Valley of Love, the Crazy House, and much more
• Nha Trang-- the surprising subculture there, its beaches, and us running from a sudden storm
• Hoi An, one of the most popular places to stop in Vietnam
• Our homestay there
• Bicycling throughout the cultural, ancient, and gorgeous town
• Why Hoi An Ancient Town, Hoi An's most popular tourist attraction, let us down
• Da Nang, a place that blew us away and why it did

And much more!

If you'd like to learn more or see pictures, feel free to check out our blog post! There's also a part 2 to our backpacking trip through Vietnam where we go to Hanoi, Halong Bay, and more!

Thank you for reading/listening! Cheers and happy travels!

Wine: Don Romero - Tinto (Spain)

In this episode of the podcast, we talked about accommodation while living abroad. A common question on people's minds when we tell them that we travel and live abroad is "Where do you live?" Ha! As if we live in a cave or something. Quite the contrary! We've lived in various types of places.

We talked about accommodation topics, such as:

• How we found all of our apartments while living abroad
• A hotel room-style apartment with no kitchen in Thailand, where we lived for six months
• The (impossibly cheap) price of living there and how we fed ourselves without a kitchen
• Our neighboring building, which was a brothel, and how it wasn't as creepy as you may think
• Actually, it was a little creepy, since our apartment building was affiliated with them and "rented out" rooms to the "employees!"
• The few stray and lovable dogs we had living on the bottom floor of the building
• Living in San Jose, California-- its perks and the opposite
• Our FREE spacious 3-bedroom apartment in South Korea
• The modern apartment we had in Korea, filled with heated floors and a computer system for visitors, calling for emergency help, and more
• Our studio apartment in Vietnam, complete with cockroaches, a tiny stove, and an incompetent landlord
• Our expensive and tiny 1-bedroom apartment in Osaka, Japan
• Sleeping on mats laid out on the floor of the room that doubled as our bedroom and living room
• How we found this apartment

And so much more!

If you'd like to learn a bit more and see some photos, feel free to check out our blog post!

Thank you for listening/reading! Cheers and happy travels!

Wine: Viña Albali - Tempranillo (Spain)

In this episode, we talk about all things teaching English abroad! As a source of income while traveling, this was the best option for us. The first country we moved to and worked in was in Thailand. In this episode, we talked about:

• Teaching English in Thailand
• How we were scammed with Island TEFL, then found last-minute jobs on Craigslist out of desperation
• What it was like teaching for the first time in Chonburi, Thailand, which was just an hour and a half drive from Bangkok
• The requirements, pay, etc. of teaching English in a primary school in Thailand
• Moving back to the US and discovering last minute that we hated it and needed to go back abroad again!
• Finding jobs last minute in South Korea
• Working as ESL teachers in a hagwon (or after-school language institution)
• Realizing 5 months in that we hated it and why we did
• Doing what is commonly referred to as a "Midnight Run," which is fleeing Korea to escape from your job and responsibilities
• Teaching English in Vietnam (just Marilyn)
• Making the switch from teaching in the physical classroom to the online classroom with VIPKID
• What VIPKID is, how to get a job with them, why it allows us to be "digital nomads," and why we love the transition

And so much more!

If you'd like to read a little bit more or see some photos, check out our blog post! Thank you for reading/listening! Cheers and happy travels!

Wine: Le Cavalier - Rouge (France) ​​​​​​​