A Way To Go

Apr 07 2020 20 ep. 29 mins 844
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A Way to Go is the podcast from Fathom, the go-to platform for curious travelers. Fathom celebrates all places we travel, and A Way to Go explores why we travel. Hear revelatory interviews, insightful travel stories and glean practical information and insider tips to turn your inspiration into travel reality. Hosted by Fathom founders Pavia Rosati and Jeralyn Gerba.

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A Message to Our Listeners

Apr 07 2020 2 mins  
We said that these are really uncertain times for the travel industry as a whole, and we may not have realized how right we were. We've been impacted also. Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Debating What Travel Will Be After Coronavirus

Mar 31 2020 29 mins  
We’re a few weeks into the fast-moving coronavirus pandemic, and things that were looking rough a week ago seem dismal and dire today. As we’re all sheltering in place and struggling to find a new normal, we can’t help but wonder, are we ever going to travel again? We will, of course, but how? Just as 9/11 changed forever our experience at the airport, what impact with corona

Embracing Freedom on a Wyoming Dude Ranch, with Glynnis MacNicol

Mar 24 2020 30 mins  
A few years ago, Brooklyn-based writer Glynnis MacNicol crossed the United States in a tiny yellow car with a very large dog. On a random pit stop at the oldest dude ranch in the United States, something unexpected happened: She fell in love with Wyoming — with its wide open spaces, with the horses trotting past her cabin at daybreak, with the intensity of being around so few peo

Running from the Law, with Tyler Wetherall

Mar 17 2020 30 mins  
When we hear about people being "bit by the travel bug," we think of them as having an appreciation of new places — not necessarily a compulsion to get up and go. The two go hand in hand for Tyler Wetherall, a travel writer who, as a child, moved 13 times across five countries and used a name that was different than the one on her passport. When she was nine years old, she learne

Understanding How Coronavirus Travels, with Dr. Jenn Haythe

Mar 10 2020 27 mins  
How does the coronavirus affect travel? We're still in the early days of the COVID-19 epidemic, and many of us are asking ourselves the same questions: Is it safe to travel now? Will it be safe in the future? Am I staying home forever? These are issues best answered with rational thought and critical analysis, not fear and panic. So we turned to Dr. Jennifer Haythe of Columbia Univ

Crushing a Globetrotting Goal to Take 12 Trips In 12 Months, with Marcy DePina

Mar 03 2020 27 mins  
At the end of 2018, Marcy DePina — an ethnomusicologist, DJ, podcast producer, and self-admitted workaholic — realized she had forgotten to take her vacation days, even though she loves to travel. So she set out to fix that situation by taking 12 trips in 12 months in 2019. And crush that travel goal she did, ranking up 17 trips for the year. As for 2020, she's setting her ambi

Transforming Locals into Stars with Harsha Chanrai

Feb 25 2020 43 mins  
Transforming Locals into Stars with Harsha Chanrai

Advocating for Millions of Refugees and Displaced People, with Susan McPherson

Feb 18 2020 30 mins  
For many of us, travel is about vacations and special occasions. For 71 million refugees and displaced people around the world, travel is about survival. Susan McPherson, a board member for USA for the United Nations High Commission for Refugees, shares what she’s witnessed in such global hotspots as the border of Venezuela and Colombia and the camps in Jordan — and gives us re

Dreading (Then Loving) Her Dad’s Safari Adventure, with Jill Kargman

Feb 11 2020 20 mins  
Jill Kargman is many things to many people: comedic memoirist, cabaret singer, and the creator of the television series Odd Mom Out. But here are a few things she proclaims not to be: nature lover, sun worshipper, animal enthusiast. And yet, she recently ended up on safari in Botswana, Zimbabwe, and Zambia — not exactly her kind of bucket list adventure. She watched her 79-year-o

Loving Disney World, Whether You’re a Kid or an Adult,with Sally Kohn

Feb 04 2020 40 mins  
Political commentator and community organizer Sally Kohn grew up on a steady diet of Disney World visits. Though these days she spends a lot of her time talking about political division, diversity, and identity, she also builds a strong case for vacationing in The Happiest Place On Earth, and shares tips for how to make it magical. Go ahead and act like a kid. It’s what you’re