Eat, Drink, Sleep, Repeat

In this week's episode, we talk to Dee Nalam—a seasoned adventurer, cultural enthusiast, and founder of Guided Seeker, a bespoke travel company that offers a personal, compassionate approach to travel. You can follow Dee and Guided Seeker on Instagram here and here and learn more about Guided Seeker and upcoming trips here. Places mentioned in this episode:Bali, Indonesia; Patagonia; Chile; South America; Mexico; Guatemala; South of France; Los Angeles, CA; Atlanta, GA; and more!Eat Drink Sleep Repeat is a listener-supported podcast. Thanks for hanging out with us and following along! Please rate, review and subscribe on Spotify or Apple. This will help new listeners find us.Give us a follow on Instagram, tell your travel-obsessed friends about us, and let us know what you want to hear next!Want to share your own travel story? Or would you like to nominate someone you think would make a great guest for the show? If you’re already a subscriber on Substack you can send us a message by replying to this email. Otherwise, send us a DM.Eat Drink Sleep Repeat is produced by Allison Ramirez and Omar Lewis. Thanks to our friends & family for being so supportive and continuing to provide us with the most thoughtful feedback week after week.EDSR is hosted on Buzzsprout.

In this week's episode, we talk to Jenn Rice—a travel and culinary journalist from North Carolina who is particularly interested in jamon (Spanish ham), cheese dates and discovering new places in the cities she calls home (and the ones where she spends extended periods of time). Her work has been featured in numerous publications, including Eater, Domino, and Thrillist. You can follow Jenn on Instagram here and subscribe to her newsletter, Bitchen, here: BitchenPlaces mentioned in this episode:Charlotte, NC; Durham, NC; Charleston, SC; Carrboro, NC; San Sebastián, Spain; Paris, France; Lyon, France; Korcula, Croatia; Lyon, France; Jackson Hole, Wyoming; Maui, Hawaii; Atlanta, Georgia; and more!Eat Drink Sleep Repeat is a listener-supported podcast. Thanks for hanging out with us and following along! Please rate, review and subscribe on Spotify or Apple. This will help new listeners find us.Give us a follow on Instagram, tell your travel-obsessed friends about us, and mark your calendars for every other Thursday—we’ll see you in 2 weeks!Want to share your own travel story? Or would you like to nominate someone you think would make a great guest for the show? If you’re already a subscriber on Substack you can send us a message by replying to this email. Otherwise, send us a DM.Eat Drink Sleep Repeat is produced by Allison Ramirez and Omar Lewis. Thanks to our friends & family for being so supportive and continuing to provide us with the most thoughtful feedback week after week.EDSR is hosted on Buzzsprout.

In this week's episode, we talk to Marti Buckley—a San Sebastian-based chef and travel writer who has published cookbooks, travel guides and articles everywhere from Travel + Leisure to Food & Wine, SUITCASE and other publications. You can follow Marti on Instagram here and her blog here. Her Basque Cheesecake recipe (which I’m obsessed with) can be found here. Her book "Basque Country: A Culinary Journey Through a Food Lover's Paradise" is available for purchase from Amazon, Bookshop, Barnes & Noble and other booksellers. And her Wallpaper* City Guide to Bilbao/San Sebastián can be found here. Places mentioned in this episode:San Sebastián, Rioja, Bilbao, Ribera del Duero, Nuun Rentals, Balenciaga Museum, Ganbara, Bar Sport, Borda Berri, Arzak, Casa Urola, Elkano in Getaria, Funicular Monte Igueldo + more. Eat Drink Sleep Repeat is a listener-supported podcast. Thanks for hanging out with us and following along! Please rate, review and subscribe on Spotify or Apple. This will help new listeners find us.Give us a follow on Instagram, tell your travel-obsessed friends about us, and mark your calendars for every other Thursday—we’ll see you in 2 weeks!Want to share your own travel story? Or would you like to nominate someone you think would make a great guest for the show? If you’re already a subscriber on Substack you can send us a message by replying to this email. Otherwise, send us a DM.Eat Drink Sleep Repeat is produced by Allison Ramirez and Omar Lewis. Thanks to our friends & family for being so supportive and continuing to provide us with the most thoughtful feedback week after week.EDSR is hosted on Buzzsprout.

In this week's episode, we talk to Harriet Baskas—an accomplished Seattle-based author, journalist, and broadcaster who has been covering the world of travel, culture, and the arts for over three decades—about weird museums, local coffee shops, her favorite airports, Pacific Northwest road trips and more. Give it a listen and let us know what you think.Some destinations mentioned in this episode:Seattle, Washington; New York; Kansas City; Omaha, Nebraska; and Route 66.You can follow Harriet’s travels on Instagram here, her book ‘111 Places in Seattle That You Must Not Miss’ here and more of her work here. Eat Drink Sleep Repeat is a listener-supported podcast. Thanks for hanging out with us and following along! Please rate, review and subscribe on Spotify or Apple. This will help new listeners find us.Give us a follow on Instagram, tell your travel-obsessed friends about us, and mark your calendars for every other Thursday—we’ll see you in 2 weeks!Want to share your own travel story? Or would you like to nominate someone you think would make a great guest for the show? If you’re already a subscriber on Substack you can send us a message by replying to this email. Otherwise, send us a DM.Eat Drink Sleep Repeat is produced by Allison Ramirez and Omar Lewis. Thanks to our friends & family for being so supportive and continuing to provide us with the most thoughtful feedback week after week.EDSR is hosted on Buzzsprout.

In this week's episode, we talk to Vanessa Rodriguez—the Manager of International Marketing for Visit California—about all the hidden gems California has to offer and how much she misses the food in Texas. Give it a listen and let us know what you think!Some destinations mentioned in this episode:Los Angeles; Cayucos; San Luis Obispo; San Francisco; Sacramento; Morro Bay; and El Paso.You can follow Vanessa’s travels on Instagram here and Visit California here.Eat Drink Sleep Repeat is a listener-supported podcast. Thanks for hanging out with us and following along! Please rate, review and subscribe on Spotify or Apple. This will help new listeners find us.Give us a follow on Instagram, tell your travel-obsessed friends about us, and mark your calendars for every other Thursday—we’ll see you in 2 weeks!Want to share your own travel story? Or would you like to nominate someone you think would make a great guest for the show? If you’re already a subscriber on Substack you can send us a message by replying to this email. Otherwise, send us a DM.Eat Drink Sleep Repeat is produced by Allison Ramirez and Omar Lewis. Thanks to our friends & family for being so supportive and continuing to provide us with the most thoughtful feedback week after week.EDSR is hosted on Buzzsprout.

In this week's episode, we talk to Wilford Lamastus Jr.—an award-winning Panama-based coffee producer—about work travels, where to find the best cocktail bars and coffee shops, and how he balances business while touring new cities. This conversation really made me want to book a ticket straight to Panama City and then spend a week or so exploring the country’s beaches and mountainous coffee regions. Give it a listen and let us know what you think!Some destinations mentioned in this episode:Boquete, San Blas, Playa Venao, Bocas del Toro, Isla Colon, Chiriqui and Panama City—all in Panama; Melbourne, Australia; Taipei; Riyadh; Houston, Texas; Miami, FL; and more…You can follow Wilford’s business here and one of his coffee shops here and his travels and day-to-day life on Instagram here.Eat Drink Sleep Repeat is a listener-supported podcast. Thanks for hanging out with us and following along! Please rate, review and subscribe on Spotify or Apple. This will help new listeners find us.Give us a follow on Instagram, tell your travel-obsessed friends about us, and mark your calendars for every other Thursday—we’ll see you in 2 weeks!Want to share your own travel story? Or would you like to nominate someone you think would make a great guest for the show? If you’re already a subscriber on Substack you can send us a message by replying to this email. Otherwise, send us a DM.Eat Drink Sleep Repeat is produced by Allison Ramirez and Omar Lewis. Thanks to our friends & family for being so supportive and continuing to provide us with the most thoughtful feedback week after week.EDSR is hosted on Buzzsprout.

In this week's episode, we talk to Aitch Alberto—an LA-based filmmaker—who wrote the screenplay for and directed the film adaptation of Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe (produced by Lin Manuel Miranda). The film debuted at TIFF last year and recently made its US debut at the Palm Springs Film Festival. Aitch is also a Sundance Episodic Lab fellow and she was included on The Black List’s inaugural Latinx List, Variety’s 10 Directors to Watch for 2022 list and Indiewire’s 22 Rising Female Filmmakers to Watch in 2022. She has written on AppleTV’s anthology series Little America and the upcoming HBO Max series Duster, a crime drama set in the 1970s from J.J. Abrams and LaToya Morgan.Some destinations mentioned in this episode:Miami; Los Angeles; Toronto; Mexico City; Puerto Escondido, Oaxaca, Mexico; Cuba and more. You can follow Aitch on Instagram and stay up-to-date with the release of her movie here. Eat Drink Sleep Repeat is a listener-supported podcast. Thanks for hanging out with us and following along! Please rate, review and subscribe on Spotify or Apple. This will help new listeners find us.Give us a follow on Instagram, tell your travel-obsessed friends about us, and mark your calendars for every other Thursday—we’ll see you in 2 weeks!Want to share your own travel story? Or would you like to nominate someone you think would make a great guest for the show? If you’re already a subscriber on Substack you can send us a message by replying to this email. Otherwise, send us a DM.Eat Drink Sleep Repeat is produced by Allison Ramirez and Omar Lewis. Thanks to our friends & family for being so supportive and continuing to provide us with the most thoughtful feedback week after week.EDSR is hosted on Buzzsprout.

In this week's episode, we talk to Viviane d’Adesky Aviles—an Atlanta-based travel publicist and interior designer—about balancing her professions, what curating travel itineraries has in common with curating interiors, going above and beyond for VIP guests, taste testing zero proof cocktails and non-alcoholic wines, and making it all work while pregnant. Some destinations mentioned in this episode:West Palm Beach, Florida; Miami, Florida; Coconut Grove, Florida; Paris, France; Grant Park, Atlanta, Georgia; Gwinnett County, Georgia; Texas; Mexico City; Sint Eustatius, an Island in the Dutch Caribbean; Alhambra in Granada, SpainYou can follow Viviane’s businesses here and here and her travels and day-to-day life on Instagram here. Eat Drink Sleep Repeat is a listener-supported podcast. Thanks for hanging out with us and following along! Please rate, review and subscribe on Spotify or Apple. This will help new listeners find us.Give us a follow on Instagram, tell your travel-obsessed friends about us, and mark your calendars for every other Thursday—we’ll see you in 2 weeks!Want to share your own travel story? Or would you like to nominate someone you think would make a great guest for the show? Send us a DM.Eat Drink Sleep Repeat is produced by Allison Ramirez and Omar Lewis. Thanks to our friends & family for being so supportive and continuing to provide us with the most thoughtful feedback week after week.EDSR is hosted on Buzzsprout.

In this week's episode, we talk to Esther Tseng—a Los Angeles-based food, drinks and culture writer. She is a judge for the James Beard Foundation and Academy Chair for the USA West region of The World’s 50 Best Bars and has contributed to a variety of publications including The New York Times, The Los Angeles Times, Bon Appétit, Food & Wine, Eater, LAist, Resy, VICE, and more. In this episode we talk about food blogging, bike-packing through Spain and Japan, safety while traveling as a person of color, finding your people, diversity of cultures and cuisine in LA, the history of Taiwanese food, a mezcal industry crisis (plus who owns the largest private mezcal collection in the world), snowboarding season, the art of menu writing and racism abroad. You can read some of Esther’s writing here and follow her on Instagram here. Eat Drink Sleep Repeat is a listener-supported podcast. Thanks for hanging out with us and following along! Please rate, review and subscribe on Spotify or Apple. This will help new listeners find us.Give us a follow on Instagram, tell your travel-obsessed friends about us, and mark your calendars for every Thursday—we’ll see you next week!Want to share your own travel story? Or would you like to nominate someone you think would make a great guest for the show? If you’re already a subscriber on Substack you can send us a message by replying to this email. Otherwise, send us a DM.Eat Drink Sleep Repeat is produced by Allison Ramirez and Omar Lewis. Thanks to our friends & family for being so supportive and continuing to provide us with the most thoughtful feedback week after week.EDSR is hosted on Buzzsprout.

In this week's episode, we talk to TWO guests for the first time. Jaime Tapias and Kimberly Shannon are a lovely couple who met and fell in love while living in Hong Kong. They’ve got a lot up their sleeves including a children’s book that was published during the pandemic, teaching, flamenco classes, design projects and more—and they just recently settled in Miami. We talked to them about traveling throughout Asia, traveling for creative inspiration and what it was like dating and getting married abroad. You can purchase their book, Socks with Sandals, here, learn more about Jaime’s work here and here and follow Kimmi on social media/read her writing here. Eat Drink Sleep Repeat is a listener-supported podcast. Thanks for hanging out with us and following along! Please rate, review and subscribe on Spotify or Apple. This will help new listeners find us.Give us a follow on Instagram, tell your travel-obsessed friends about us, and mark your calendars for every Thursday—we’ll see you next week!Want to share your own travel story? Or would you like to nominate someone you think would make a great guest for the show? If you’re already a subscriber on Substack you can send us a message by replying to this email. Otherwise, send us a DM.Eat Drink Sleep Repeat is produced by Allison Ramirez and Omar Lewis. Thanks to our friends & family for being so supportive and continuing to provide us with the most thoughtful feedback week after week.EDSR is hosted on Buzzsprout.