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Why We Wander
Why We Wander is a bi-weekly podcast hosted by Shannon Keating and Tamara Walker, co-founders of The Wandering Scholar. We talk about all things travel: the places people go, the experiences that have transformed their lives, and how the travel landscape is evolving to meet the demands of a changing...
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Souvenir: Teachers and Travel
This week we revisit one of our episodes about teachers and travel. We take a look at all the ways teachers use travel, from expanding the boundaries...
Souvenir: Retirement Travel
We continue with our trip down memory lane by revisiting our conversation with Alison and Don, a couple who set out on a trip around the world in thei...
Souvenir/Postcard: Travel with Kids
Now that summer travel season is kicking back into gear for the first time in years, we thought we’d dig through our archives to bring you some early,...
Episode 64: Travel Hacks & Shifting Guidelines
In this episode Shannon and Tamara talk about one of the enduring challenges when it comes to traveling to Europe - flights that land hours (and hour...
Episode 63: Travel Tropes to Toss, Keep, and Rethink
In this episode we talk about overused travel tropes. Which ones do we need to toss out (hint: it ends with "-moon")? Which ones are worth keeping, or...
Episode 62: Do Tourist Traps Get a Bad Rap?
It seems like every piece of travel advice we come across these days tells us to avoid the dreaded "tourist trap." But what's so bad about these sorts...
Episode 61: What Does it Mean to be Well Traveled?
In this episode Shannon and Tamara tackle a pressing question: what does it mean to be well traveled? Is it about the number of stamps on your passpor...
Episode 60: New Year, Old Problems
In this episode we talk about how we've started out the new year aware of the old problems related to traveling in our current reality. At the same ti...
Episode 59: A Report from the 2021 Travel Field
When we started working on this week's episode with Angela, our de facto travel correspondent, the new variant hadn't yet made the news or an impact o...
Episode 58: The Roads We've Been Traveling
Tamara and Shannon are back! In this episode, they talk about the roads they've been traveling, what it's like becoming a regular in new places, the j...
Episode 57: What We Never Travel Without
It has been a while since the last episode we recorded together. We’ve got a bunch of ideas of topics we want to cover this fall and winter on Why We...
Episode 56: A Student Searches for Haiti and Herself
We had a busy summer at the podcast and at The Wandering Scholar, despite the unusual circumstances surrounding all of us right now. Normally we’d be...
Episode 55: The New Rules of Tourism
In this episode, Tamara and Shannon talk about the new rules of tourism. After world-famous cities like Amsterdam got a taste during the pandemic of w...
Episode 54: All Things Iceland with Jewells Chambers
In this episode, Tamara chats with Jewells Chambers, founder of All Things Iceland (a multi-platform destination for learning about Icelandic culture,...
Episode 53: A Conversation with Danielle G. from Young, Gifted and Abroad
In this episode, Shannon and Tamara chat with Danielle G., host of the podcast Young, Gifted, and Abroad (https://www.younggiftedandabroad.com/), whic...
Episode 52: Road Trips, College Towns and Vanlife
It's almost summer which means road trip time for many people who are seeking a little adventure as restrictions ease up around the U.S. In this episo...
Episode 51: Traveling Is "When We Feel Most Alive"
In our last episode, Shannon and Tamara talked about the place of travel in their lives and why it matters so much to them that they built a non-profi...
Episode 50: What Is It about Travel?
For our 50th episode, Shannon and Tamara drill down to the essence of our show to ask: what is it about travel that nourishes us, defines our sense of...
Episode 49: Revenge Travel, Why We’re Not That Into It
In this episode Tamara and Shannon explore the travel trends that are taking over our newsfeed from revenge travel to regenerative travel and everythi...
Episode 48: Markets, Street Vendors & Food Travel with a Smithsonian Food Historian
In this episode we explore the intersection of travel, history and food with food historian Ashley Rose Young, PhD. Dr. Young joined the Smithsonian’s...
Episode 47: Food & Travel
As we round out a year of no travel, we are all continuing to find ways to stay connected to the world around us. In this episode, that means through...
Episode 46: Talking with Dr. Kiona - How Not To Travel
In this episode we talk with Dr. Kiona, an online educator and founder of How Not To Travel Like A Basic Bitch. She blends travel with accessible lear...
Episode 45: "Emily In Paris" and the Travel Stories We Don't See
It's the run-up to the Golden Globes, and we have the surprise - and controversial - multi-nominee "Emily in Paris" on our minds. We talk about what w...
Episode 44: Study Abroad Memories
If we weren’t in the middle of a pandemic, it would be study abroad season for high-school and college students around the US. In the spirit of nostal...
Episode 43: Vaccine Tourism
In this postcard episode Tamara and Shannon talk about what everyone is talking about: vaccine tourism. From out-of-staters crossing the border in Flo...
Episode 42: You Can Still Visit Paris
In this episode, we talk with Elisa Jéhanno, a licensed tour guide in Paris who - it might surprise you - has been keeping very busy these past few mo...
Episode 41: The Real Housewives of Travel
In this episode, Tamara talks with Brandon, a friend of the podcast who you last heard from him in episode 36 (https://soundcloud.com/user-88865630/ep...
Episode 40: A Year (Mostly) without Travel: Reflections and Resolutions
In our 40th and final episode of 2020, Tamara and Shannon reflect on a year without travel (or at least much travel) and talk about what this coming y...
Episode 39: Race and Travel
This week’s episode is a two-part exploration of race and travel. In Part one, Shannon and Tamara chat with Susan Ho, a travel company founder who we...
Episode 38: Learning Languages at Home and for the Future
In this episode, Tamara talks with Janina Klimas, a language teacher and expert on all things related to feeling confident speaking foreign languages....
Episode 37: The Future Of Student Travel
We are back! In this episode, we talk with Reed Harwood of Where There Be Dragons, a Colorado-based company whose mission is to cultivate meaningful c...
Episode 36: Getting Away but Not Escaping
This episode continues our ongoing coverage of travel in the time of covid. We are about 7 months into the pandemic at this point, (or maybe even 10,...
Episode 35: Travel in the Time of COVID
In this episode, we talk about travel in the time of Covid. Shannon is away from the podcast for a little while, so I reached out to our friend Angela...
Episode 34: Beyond the Black Square
In this episode, we talk about how the travel industry is reckoning with issues of racial diversity and inclusion. The industry, to put it mildly, has...
Episode 33: Escaping While Safer At Home
In our last episode we focused on the realm of fantasy, dreaming up where we would go, who we would visit and even what we’d order for breakfast on ou...
Episode 32: Quarantine Travel Fantasies
In this installment of our Travel Fantasies series, we let our minds wander away from the realities we are all facing. We’ve all been cooped up in our...
Episode 31: COVID-19 Escape Artists
In this episode (record date: Thursday, April 2), we continue our coverage of the relationship between travel and the coronavirus. While any significa...
Episode 30: Study Abroad and Coronavirus
In this episode, we continue our discussion of the impact of the coronavirus on travel. Last week we talked about the vacations we decided not to take...
Why We Wander Episode 29: Travel and COVID-19
In this episode, we talk about something that is on everyone’s minds: travel and the coronavirus. We’ll talk about how it has interrupted vacation pla...
Why We Wander Ep. 28 (Travel Fantasies) Flight Passes
We are introducing a new feature called Travel Fantasies. We take a news story - about airline promos, trends in the travel industry, updates from the...