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This Week in Travel News episode 1 on The Millennial Travel Podcast with Matt Wilson:

Happy Cyber Week Millennial Travel Podcast listeners!

A big part of my job as CEO of Under30Experiences is reading the travel news and analyzing where the industry is going, so I'm here to bring you all the top stories.

Updates from Under30Experiences: 
-Over30Experiences launch! Group travel in your 30s and 40s!
-Digital Nomad Trips! 2-4 week co-working adventures.

Let's kick it off with Black Friday and Cyber Monday Deals...

- Afar Media had Your Ultimate Guide to Black Friday and Cyber Monday Travel Deals
 - 🇮🇸 Iceland's Play Airlines 
 - 🧳Away Luggage
 - 🎒Osprey Backpacks
 - 🎿Backcountry
 - 🌋Cotopaxi
 - 🧗🏼‍♂️REI 
 - 💚Under30Experiences 

- The Points Guy did a roundup of the Best Black Friday Flight Deals
 - 🍀@aerlingus
 - 🍁@aircanada
 - 🇵🇫@airtahitinui
 - 🐻@alaskaair
 - 🇺🇸@americanair
 - 🇭🇰@cathaypacific
 - 🇪🇸@iberia
 - 🇮🇸@icelandair
 - 💙@jetblue
 - 🇶🇦@qatarairways

- The Millennial Travel Guidebook: Escape More, Spend Less, & Make Travel a Priority is on sale for just 99 cents on Amazon!

- The travel restrictions have been lifted across Latin America
 - Peru
 - Ecuador
 - Guatemala
  - They all had testing or vaccine requirements and that was hurting the travel industry big time. 
  - Lots of friends
  - We're thrilled to get to be back at places like Cusco, Machu Picchu, Galapagos, Quito, Tikal

- Lonely Planet's Best in Travel 2023 is out...
- 🏆The winners across 5 categories are: 
- 🍝Eat: Lima, Peru, Umbria, Italy, Fukuoka, Japan, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, Montevideo, Uruguay, & South Africa
- 🥾Journey: Nova Scotia, Canada, Bhutan, Parques Nacionales Naturales, Colombia, Istanbul to Sofia Train, Western Australia, & Zambia. 
- 🫂Connect: Accra, Ghana, Albania, Sydney, Australia, Guyana, Boise, USA, & Alaska, USA. 
- 📚Learn: New Mexico, USA, El Salvador, Dresden, Germany, Marseille, France, Manchester, United Kingdom, & Southern Scotland. 
- 🏖Unwind: Dominica, Halkidiki, Greece, Jamaica, Jordan, Malta, & Raja Ampat, Indonesia.

-  Less than 6 months until Real ID Requirements start for air travel in the USA!

Dr. Anne Desrosiers is an entrepreneur, educator, and philanthropist from Brooklyn, New York. Anne is someone who I'm lucky enough to call a friend. She is an OG Under30Experiences traveler who I got to know on our trip to Iceland.   Anne is Chief Experiences Officer at The Voluptuary Travel. She writes a fantastic blog and always keeps it real with her readers... the true Brooklyn way!   She is founder of The World is Your Oyster, TWIYO's (pronounced Twee-yo) mission is to inform and transform urban youth into cognizant and adept leaders of tomorrow through distinct cultural, service, and international travel experiences. An after-school and out-of-school time program serving Brooklyn's High School youth, TWIYO cultivates tomorrow's leaders, today.

 

Matt Wilson is Co-founder and CEO of Under30Experiences, and the author of The Millennial Travel Guidebook.

Today Matt shares his experience traveling the world for the last decade in MTP20: Solo Travel Destinations in Mexico, Central America, & the Caribbean. Matt lived in Central America between 2012 and 2019.

Read the full article: https://www.under30experiences.com/blog/solo-travel-destinations-in-mexico-central-america-the-caribbean

Follow Matt on Instagram @mattwilsontv

 

Matt Wilson, is Co-founder and CEO of Under30Experiences, and author of The Millennial Travel Guidebook.   Today Matt shares his experience seeing all 50 states in the USA as he explains the top solo travel destinations in the United States!   Read the full article: https://www.under30experiences.com/blog/the-top-solo-travel-destinations-in-the-united-states Follow Matt: instagram.com/mattwilsontv

Matt Wilson, is Co-founder and CEO of Under30Experiences, and author of The Millennial Travel Guidebook.   Today Matt shares his experience seeing all 50 states in the USA as he explains the top solo travel destinations in the United States!   Read the full article: https://www.under30experiences.com/blog/the-top-solo-travel-destinations-in-the-united-states Follow Matt: instagram.com/mattwilsontv

Hannah Pinkerton is a full-time vanlifer, blogger at Destined for Adventure, Spanish teacher at Speak Better Spanish, and Community Manager and Trip Leader at Under30Experiences. She's been location independent since 2015 and traveling outside the United States since 2018. Hannah also is a Location Independence Coach helping others do the same. She lives with her 4 cats and 5 dogs in her converted camper van as a solo female traveler in Mexico!  Hannah gives me everything I need to know about how to live in a van and make money!  In this episode of The Millennial Travel Podcast I discuss with Hannah Pinkerton: 

• Van life essentials.
• How much van life costs in Mexico. 
• How to live in a van full time.
• How to live in a van and make money.
• How much converting her van cost in Mexico?
• What is the cost of living in Mexico? 
• Some fun van travel hacks
• What is life like as an expat in Mexico? 
• How safe is traveling in Mexico? 
• How is the healthcare system in Mexico? 
• How did Hannah find a mechanic for her van in Mexico? 
• What is the difference between living in a tiny house and van life? 
• What is the slow travel movement? 
• Where do you go to the bathroom when you live in van? 
• How Hannah started adopting animals and bringing them into her van. 
• How you can help adopt a dog or cat from Hannah! 

Resources from Hannah: 

• Destined for Adventure Blog
• @DestinedforAdventure on Instagram
• Hannah's Vanlife YouTube
• Safety Wing Insurance for Nomads
• Speak Better Spanish
• @SpeakBetterSpanish on Instagram

You can find all the links and past show notes on millennialtravelpodcast.com Direct support for The Millennial Travel Podcast comes from The Millennial Travel Guidebook: Escape More, Spend Less, & Make Travel a Priority in Your Life. Looking for more great content? Check out The Ultimate Guide to Solo Travel.

Matt Wilson, is Co-founder and CEO of Under30Experiences, and author of The Millennial Travel Podcast.

Today Matt shares his experience traveling the world for the last decade in the Ultimate Guide to Solo Travel.

Read the full article: https://www.under30experiences.com/blog/solo-travel-guide

Follow Matt on Instagram @mattwilsontv.

Mark Peacock is the host of the TravelCommons podcast, one of the longest running travel radio shows on the internet. Mark has been a frequent business traveler for more than 30 years.  He travels all over the world for high-tech companies and management consultancies.  

Mark Peacock's first TravelCommons podcast was recorded in May 2005 in the bathroom of the Wardman Park Marriott in Washington, DC. Originally, TravelCommons was going to be travel blog, but Mark turned out producing the "Voice of the Traveler" podcast.  Ask Mark frequently says, "it is more about the journey than the destination."

Mark has lived all over the United States, and is currently living in Chicago for the third time with his wife and two kids.

In this episode of The Millennial Travel Podcast I discuss with Mark Peacock: 

• How Mark started a travel podcast and hosts one of the oldest travel podcasts on the internet.
• How Mark started TravelCommons podcast in a hotel bathroom in 2005 and what has kept him going.
• How does Mark get any work done while traveling? Does travel spark creativity? 
• How technology interrupts our ability to chat with the people around us while traveling. 
• Why Mark advises his family not to travel during "rush hour" in airports on Monday mornings and Thursday evenings. 
• Should you invest in TSA Precheck? 
• Why Mark always focuses on flying with one airline, goes to the airline lounges, and has the airport credit cards.
• Does Mark get upgraded as a frequent business traveler and is airline status worth it? Why is it more difficult to get upgrades these days? 
• Mark Peacock's tips for rental cars. Should you lock in your gas price with a rental car company? Is it worth it? 
• What are some of Mark's craziest travel stories as a business traveler?
• Mark's tips for traveling during the winter and having backup plans. 

The Millennial Travel Podcast Rapid Fire Questions I ask Mark Peacock: 

• Favorite domestic airport
• • Terminal 2 in San Francisco 
• Favorite international airport
• Favorite airline
• Favorite booking website 
• • Direct with airlines, but search with Google 
• Favorite travel bloggers
• • Craig and Linda Indie Travel Podcast past Millennial Travel Podcast guests!
  • Chris Christensen Amateur Traveler another past podcast guest of ours! 
  • Flyer Talk--The World's Most Popular Frequent Flyer Website
  • The Cranky Flyer--an airline industry blog
  • Boarding Area--required reading for frequent flyers 

Resources from Mark Peacock: 

• TravelCommons.com
• Twitter @Mpeakcock
• Facebook TravelCommons
• Instagram @TravelCommons

You can find all the links and past show notes on millennialtravelpodcast.com

Direct support for The Millennial Travel Podcast comes from The Millennial Travel Guidebook: Escape More, Spend Less, & Make Travel a Priority in Your Life.

Looking for more great content? Check out The Ultimate Guide to Solo Travel.

Scott Keyes is the founder and CEO of Scott's Cheap Flights. In 2013, he found a flight deal he just can't pass out on—a $130 round trip ticket from New York City to Milan. When he returned home, his friends and colleagues asked him to let them know the next time he finds a great deal. In a nutshell, that's how Scott's Cheap Flights came about.

Scott's Cheap Flights newsletter aims to enable people to travel and see and experience the world. Unlike automated flight deals and alerts sent out by way of affiliated links, they leverage their team of human flight experts and innovative software to provide meticulously-vetted and high quality deals that are worth their members' time and money.  Some are even mistake fares! 

To date, Scott's Cheap Flights has more than 2 million members (and growing each day!). The total amount of airfare their deals have helped members save is already at a whopping $100 million! Scott's Cheap Flights is run by a remote team with members situated in many parts of the world. Undoubtedly, they are making people's travel dreams attainable, one deal at a time!

So far, Scott has visited a total of 46 countries. He lists Oaxaca, Mexico as his favorite destination. He runs Scott's Cheap Flights with co-founder and COO, Brian Kidwell.

Personally, I recommend the Scott's service in The Millennial Travel Guidebook and gave Scott's Cheap Flights great review.  Many people have asked if Scott's Cheap Flights Premium is worth it, and I always say yes. Scott's Cheap flights is very legitimate--their mission is to enable people to travel and experience the world!

In this episode of The Millennial Travel Podcast I discuss with Scott Keyes of Scott's Cheap Flights: 

• How to use Scott's Cheap Flights.
• How to find cheap flights.
• When and when to find cheap flights.
• Is Scott's Cheap Flights good for domestic travel or/or international flights?
• Scott also shares what the 24-hour rule is, the holy grail of the cheap flights world, and the cheapest time to book a flight.
• Travel hacking booking flights.
• Where to find cheap flights last minute
• What apps and travel hacks does Scott Keyes use?
• What blogs or other resources does Scott read? 
• • TravelisFree.com
  • View from the Wing with Gary Leff

On finding the best flight deals, Scott has this to say, "The better the deal is, the shorter it's going to last. So finding about them early and being able to book early is really really key."

Resources from Scott Keyes: 

• Sign up for Scott's Cheap Flights
• Scott's Cheap Flights on Twitter @ScottsFlights
• Instagram @ScottsCheapFlights
• Facebook Scott's Cheap Flights
• Scott's Cheap Flights Facebook Community
• Scott Keyes' new book: Take More Vacations: How to Search Better, Book Cheaper, and Travel the World

You can find all the links and past show notes on millennialtravelpodcast.com

Direct support for The Millennial Travel Podcast comes from The Millennial Travel Guidebook: Escape More, Spend Less, & Make Travel a Priority in Your Life... and from our new USA hiking and camping trips at Under30Experiences!

Rolf Potts is a legendary travel writer, who's book Vagabonding: An Uncommon Guide to the Art of Long-Term World Travel has been a classic piece of travel writing for many years.  Rolf's writing has appeared in National Geographic, The Guardian, Outside, The New Yorker, and Sports Illustrated.  Potts has been part of creative writing workshops and/or taught classes at places like Paris American University, University of Pennsylvania, and Yale University.

In addition to travel writing and his Vagabonding success, Rolf Potts' adventures have taken him across six continents, and include piloting a fishing boat 900 miles down the Laotian Mekong, hitchhiking across Eastern Europe, traversing Israel on foot, bicycling across Burma, driving a Land Rover across South America, and traveling around the world for six weeks with no luggage or bags of any kind.

Potts is also the author of Marco Polo Didn't Go There: Stories and Revelations From One Decade as a Postmodern Travel Writer and the new edition of Vagabonding includes a foreword from Tim Ferriss.  Most recently Rolf has launched his own podcast called "Deviate".

Rolf leaves the listeners with some final advice encouraging them to travel and reminding them that its not as difficult or as dangerous as they might think.

In this episode of The Millennial Travel Podcast we discuss: 

• What does it mean to be "time rich" versus most people travel in such a hurry? 
• • Rolf Potts explains how he taught English in Korea
• What does Rolf Potts think about the digital nomad movement?
• Why do people want to go back in time for nostalgic reasons when they travel? 
• A quick story of when Rolf Potts got lost getting off the beaten path.
• How people can cut the cord on their smartphone while traveling.
• How can people truly disconnect, so they don't get burned out? 
• How to make your "vacation your vocation".
• What can we learn from the "slow food movement" or "slow travel movement"? 
• How can people afford to travel more often and travel for longer?
• • Travel to cheaper places
  • He lives in Kansas because of the low cost of living, so he can afford to travel more often   
• What is Rolf Potts' life like in Kansas and what does he appreciate about it? 
• • Rolf is from Kansas and learned to appreciate what he has at home.
• How does an old school traveler like Rolf Potts feel about Instagram culture in travel?
  
  

The Millennial Travel Podcast Rapid Fire Questions: 

• If Rolf Potts could go to one bar tomorrow what would it be? 
• • McGlinchey's in Philadelphia or a Korean soju tent
• If Rolf Potts could take six months to travel anywhere where would he go? 
• • The United States because it's such a large, diverse country
• What is Rolf Potts favorite US National Park? 
• • Olympic National Park in Washington
• Rolf Potts favorite piece of travel gear? 
• • You don't need any luggage to have a good time, so he said good shoes or a smartphone. 

Resources: 

• Rolf Potts' best seller: Vagabonding
• Rolf Potts' book Marco Polo Didn't Go There: Stories and Revelations from One Decade as a Postmodern Travel Writer (Travelers' Tales Guides)
• Rolf Potts' book Souvenir (Object Lessons)
• Rolf Potts podcast Deviate
• @RolfPotts on Instagram
• @RolfPotts on Twitter
• His website rolfpotts.com 

Listen to the full episode on Apple Podcasts, Stitcher, Soundcloud, or Spotify.

You can find all the links and past show notes on millennialtravelpodcast.com

Direct support for The Millennial Travel Podcast comes from The Millennial Travel Guidebook: Escape More, Spend Less, & Make Travel a Priority in Your Life... and from our new USA hiking and camping trips at Under30Experiences!