Travel Adventure Sisters!

Would you like to return to a special place from your past?  In this episode, Alison and Stephanie speak to Kristi about returning to Varanasi, India after 18 years to share with her daughters where she and her husband got engaged. She discusses how special this trip was for her family and provides tips for travel in India.

One way to better understand a city is to learn about its art scene.  Art museums and art galleries provide both beauty and a deeper cultural understanding to your travel.  In today’s episode, Alison and Stephanie speak with Rosie about her time in London, where she worked at Sotheby's Auction House and attended the Courtauld Institute of Art.  She will talk about her time in the art world in London and give tips on how to make the most of a city’s art scene during your travel.

Are you a book lover? If so, this one's for you! In this episode, Alison and Stephanie speak with Chris, an English teacher and antiquarian bookseller, about her time traveling through the UK visiting bookstores and literary locations.  We will also do a deep dive into the Lake District of England, known to inspire many renowned authors. She will provide tips to enhance your travel by adding literary fun into your trip.  

Would you like to create a custom travel experience?  In this episode, we learn how Don, an event planner in the United States, collaborated with a local company to create a custom cycling tour in Northern Vietnam for 29 cyclists.   He will share tips about how to work with a local tour company to create a custom travel experience that works for you!

Would you like to incorporate cycling into your travel?  One of the best ways to see a region is by bicycle!  In this Dual Perspectives series, we learn about a group cycling tour through Northern Vietnam from both the participant’s and planner’s perspectives.  In this episode, Alison and Stephanie speak with Ed, an avid cyclist, about his experience participating in this group tour and get tips to make the most from a cycling trip.  Next month we will hear from Don, a longtime event organizer, about how he worked with a local tour company to create this large cycling tour.

Would you like to communicate with friends while traveling and create a digital travel journal at the same time?  In this episode, Alison and Stephanie learn about the digital travel log, Polarsteps, from Lauren, our first repeat guest and avid world traveler. She discusses her 11.5 month travel adventure, including her time in Albania, and teaches us how she digitally documented her trip in real time. If you would like to hear our previous interview with Lauren about working remotely from abroad, check out Season 1, Episode 12. 

 The 2026 Winter Olympics held in both Milan and Cortina, Italy was a global sporting event encompassing 19 days of competition. In this episode, Alison and Stephanie interview Dana and Patrice, mother and aunt respectively to Olympic Alpine skier, AJ Hurt, about their experience attending the Winter Olympics. They will discuss what it is like to be there in person, as well as give tips for anyone who would like to attend. The next Olympics will be held in the summer of 2028 in Los Angeles, California.

Want to climb a mountain?  In part three of our three-part series called, “Climb Every Mountain!”  Alison and Stephanie discuss advanced mountain climbing with Heidi Richards, a mountain climber and guide who is one of only approximately 500 people who have climbed the Seven Summits, which are highest mountains on each continent.  Climbing all seven peaks is considered one of the greatest mountaineering challenges in the world. 

This is part two of our three-part series heralding in the New Year called, “Climb Every Mountain!”  In this series we arelearning about beginner, intermediate, and advanced mountain climbing and finding inspiration from these endeavors to tackle our goals for the year.  Today Alison and Stephanie speak with Dr.  Theresa Szczurek about the lifelessons she took away from climbing Mount Kilimanjaro in Tanzania, Africa.  To learn more about Dr. Szczurek visit her website at www.TMSworld.com.

This is episode one of a three-part series heralding in the new year called, “Climb Every Mountain!”  In this series we will discuss beginning, intermediate, and advanced mountain climbing and use these travel adventures as a metaphor for goal setting.  In this beginner episode, Alison and Stephanie discuss trekking through the Rhyolite Mountains of Iceland.  Whether or not you plan to climb a literal mountain, we hope you will be inspired by this series to climb your own internal mountain this year.