PEOPLE WITH BACKPACKS
The Podcast
We are connecting you to the stories of backpackers and adventure seekers from all over the world. These stories reveal unique travel styles that shape new adventures, long lasting friendships, and confidence in the face of challenges
Fern Olivia is trained in a multitude of spiritual and holistic healing modalities and has grown a worldwide yoga movement, Thyroid Yoga.
Sometimes in order to truly have a unique travel experience you need to just trust that the universe is going to provide you with everything you need - On this episode I catch up with my frien Andrea Boljat abluot her spontaneous trip to Costa Rica, and how what happened along the way changed her life forever.
Travel can give you moments and time to stop and reflect about life, where you come from, and where are you going. Especially now in 2021 and the Covid-19 pandemic, many people are rethinking their priorities, and instead are traveling more and becoming more nomadic.
Traveling for a few weeks here, a month there, and somtimes even shorter can been a good way to get away but it does not always lend to a unique and inspiring experience. A growing trend now is travelers going out and becoming fully nomadic for years, working from the road and findinig ways to remain sustainabale and still free to explore.
Anna French has always been adventrious, as she caught the travel bug at a young age by going on epic road trips with her mom. Since then, Anna has backpacked around the globe, and most recently she has been living in her van for three years, as she ventured around the country sharing her story on the Spin The Globe Project.
On this episode Courtney takes us to April 25th 2015 in Nepal, on the day the region was hit by a devastating 8.0 magnitude earthquake, that rocked the city as well as the surrounding mountain ranges
I met Dave Suske in 2018 in Quito Ecudor. Good Ole “Danger Dave” was still there in 2020 and when the Ecuador Lockdown came roaring though the capitol. It would leave many travelers stranded asking a lot of questions.
Sometimes while traveling, you are faced with unique challenges that can change your life forever.