Strangers Abroad

This is a narrative travel podcast about a solo female backpacker who interviews strangers she meets while backpacking. Stories of adventure traveling like National Geographic, interview style like Fresh Air, and diverse/alternative storytelling like This American Life and Snap Judgement.

How to Listen to the Full Series of A Race Around the World 10/19/2023

How to Listen to the Full Series of A Race Around the World If you loved episodes one and two of my new audio adventure A Race Around the World: Based on the True Story of Nellie Bly and Elizabeth Bisland, then head over to these feeds linked below. New episodes are out and you can listen to the full series at these links. Thank you so much for listening, and I hope you all are inspired to do your own race around the world once you listen to the full season ( eleven episodes and counting!) Please rate and review and spread the word! /episode/index/show/strangersabroad/id/28366916

A Race Around the World: Episode Two 10/03/2023

A Race Around the World: Episode Two Please go to feed for the remaining nine episodes. ___________________________________________________________________________ Nellie Bly isn’t the only woman to leave New York on November 14th to race around the world. On the same day, the editor of the Cosmopolitan magazine, John Brisben Walker, recognized the potential for a sensational story. He dispatched ( aka bribed, badgered, and threatened) his literary writer Elizabeth Bisland to jump into the race as well. But, instead of following the same path, Elizabeth took a westward route. She packs her items and jumps onto a train headed to San Francisco. While many know about the historical race from Nellie’s perspective, Elizabeth Bislands story is often left in the shadows and will provide an alternative perspective to going around the world. This episode sheds light on Elizabeth Bislands upbringing, her ambitions and talents, and how she got roped into this wild goose chase of a race. /episode/index/show/strangersabroad/id/28214456

A Race Around the World: Episode One 10/03/2023

A Race Around the World: Episode One Please go to feed for the remaining nine episodes. _______________________________________________________________________________ On November 14th, 1889, Nellie Bly left Manhattan to go on a race around the world in under 80 days. In this episode, host Adrien Behn will delve into the background of this extraordinary woman. She will explore Nellie Bly’s upbringing and aspirations, the obstacles she summersaulted over to become a female investigative journalist, her groundbreaking reporting, and what drove her to embark on a journey that defied the norms of her time. By the end of the episode, Nellie's bags are pack, and she is headed to London on a steamship. /episode/index/show/strangersabroad/id/28214249

A Race Around the World Trailer: Based on the True Adventure of Nellie Bly and Elizabeth Bisland 09/18/2023

A Race Around the World Trailer: Based on the True Adventure of Nellie Bly and Elizabeth Bisland NEW SHOW ALERT Hi Strangers! I have been working on a new podcast series and wanted to share the trailer here. Take a listen! ________________________________________________________________________________ On November 14th, 1889, two female writers entered a race to go around the world in under 80 days. Nellie Bly went east, and Elizabeth Bisland headed west. Nellie couldn’t be more excited. While Elizabeth was annoyed because she had to reschedule a tea party. This eleven part series will unpack their whirlwind of an adventure, how these two women ended up in the race, and what it was like to travel the world alone as a women. Storyteller and travel writer Adrien Behn brings Nellie Bly and Elizabeth Bislands’ experiences, emotions, and adventures to life. This serialized podcast works to bring the incredible accomplishments of these two bold solo female travelers to life, go through every country, every feeling they experience while braving the world on their own. /episode/index/show/strangersabroad/id/28071849

Following Our Blue Dot Back Home 07/12/2021

Following Our Blue Dot Back Home Adrien and Sam hear avalanches. Adrien reflects on her trip and the last year of stillness as her and Sam make their way back home. /episode/index/show/strangersabroad/id/19763300

Love on the Road 07/02/2021

Love on the Road Adrien describes a day in Bryce Canyon with her partner Sam that tests their relationship. She then interviews Sam about their time on the road and how well they faired as travel companions. /episode/index/show/strangersabroad/id/19678550

Hostels, Hotels, Motels and All the Right Places in Between 06/24/2021

Hostels, Hotels, Motels and All the Right Places in Between Adrien and Sam head out west. Adrien talks to managers of Indy Hostel in Indianapolis and Food of the Mountain Motel in Boulder to see how COVID has effected their business and how they have learned to roll with every changing mandate. We discuss post-covid travel predictions, roadside attractions, and never ending stretches of desert. /episode/index/show/strangersabroad/id/19586768

Road Trip Series Part 1: The Desert Absolute 06/18/2021

Road Trip Series Part 1: The Desert Absolute This episode kicks of Strangers Abroad Road Trip mini-series. Listen to why Adrien had a sudden urge to go into the desert and how she started planning her trip across the country with her intrepid partner Sam. /episode/index/show/strangersabroad/id/19514897

The Progress:How Race Impacts Travel: COVID 3 07/29/2020

The Progress:How Race Impacts Travel: COVID 3 Although our American passports give us all equal access to the world, we don't come back with the same experiences. In light of the Black Lives Matter protests and shifts, we talk to travelers of color who share their stories about being a person of color abroad. We discuss common frustrations and how to be a good ally at home and onboard. /episode/index/show/strangersabroad/id/15393440

The Wait: COVID 2 07/22/2020

The Wait: COVID 2 We talk to travelers to reexamine their relationships with themselves and their home as they wait through quarantine. /episode/index/show/strangersabroad/id/15305372

The Shock: COVID1 07/15/2020

The Shock: COVID1 Adrien escapes to upstate, and we speak to travelers who had there plans canceled due to the pandemic /episode/index/show/strangersabroad/id/15213821

Thank You for a Wonderful Second Season: Please Rate and Review 07/09/2020

Thank You for a Wonderful Second Season: Please Rate and Review Thank you to all of my listeners and guests for an incredible second season! I hope you all enjoyed it and I would love to hear your thoughts and desires for the next season. /episode/index/show/strangersabroad/id/15132128

Home 06/30/2020

Home The more we travel, the more we find that home becomes more illusive.But, the farther we travel from it, the more foreign it seems. It slowly becomes but a dream to us. Our lives consist of backpacks and tickets instead of a bed and a mortgage. Many of us left because home doesn’t provide all that it could for us. Because they know home has been within them all along. /episode/index/show/strangersabroad/id/15017000

Grown 06/23/2020

Grown Home is hopefully a wonderful place to grow. But it can keep us stagnant. Never challenge us for bigger things in life. /episode/index/show/strangersabroad/id/14925263

Inspired 06/16/2020

Inspired When we travel, many of us come back with more photos on our phones and souvenirs in our bags. We may feel a deeper shift within us.This could be as simple as giving more compliments to people, being kinder. Or it could be enough to evoke a humanitarian career. We will talk to travelers who were inspired to make the world a better place. Guests: Ray Blakney- Creator of Live Lingua, Anne Davis-Creator of Venture with Impact, Kat Najera- Creator of Manos Con Amore, Evita Robinson- Creator of Nomadness /episode/index/show/strangersabroad/id/14836958

Healed 06/09/2020

Healed Sometimes we don’t know we are sick until we have left our homes. /episode/index/show/strangersabroad/id/14747252

Humbled 06/02/2020

Humbled Travel invites us to climb mountains, internal or external. And once we leave the small backyards we were raised in and are exposed to the great landscapes of the world, something shifts within us. /episode/index/show/strangersabroad/id/14660672

Coincidences 05/26/2020

Coincidences “What are the chances?” is how it always starts. We bump into a middle school friend in Prague, book the same hotel as a high school friend in Argentina, or end up sitting next to someone from home on a bus in Ireland. /episode/index/show/strangersabroad/id/14564444

Strangers 05/19/2020

Strangers Strangers are an inevitable part of our trip. Their presence is like oxygen: invisible but breathes life into our trips. /episode/index/show/strangersabroad/id/14472764

Worried 05/12/2020

Worried In this episode, we tell the stories we don’t want to share with new travelers. /episode/index/show/strangersabroad/id/14379392

Transit 05/05/2020

Transit It isn't about the destination, it’s about the journey is one of the most overused, cliche, eye-roll sayings around travel. /episode/index/show/strangersabroad/id/14285357

Amore 04/28/2020

Amore Travel has a way of redefining our romantic needs and helps us expand more than our horizons. /episode/index/show/strangersabroad/id/14174186

Hungry 04/21/2020

Hungry Food is an essential ingredient to having a rich experience abroad. It expands more than our waistlines. It expands how we understand each other and the cosmic soup we are all simmering in. /episode/index/show/strangersabroad/id/14075948

Wander 04/14/2020

Wander Now comes the time that most travelers anticipate the most: the wandering. The musing through streets for hours, the hidden staircases, the gardens behind bookstores, and random conversations with locals. All of the things we find outside of the guide book make our trip. We enjoyed these surprises more because we had no expectation to find them. And arriving with expectations can only lead you to disappointment. /episode/index/show/strangersabroad/id/13976639

Together 04/08/2020

Together Travel is the truest test of a relationship. It bonds unlikely people together and tests old relationships. /episode/index/show/strangersabroad/id/13897631

Alone 04/01/2020

Alone Out of all the states that we will travel to, traveling alone usually brings up the most trepidation in people. To many, that idea seems as foreign as the places they want to travel to. Why would you do anything alone? But that underlying fear might be because solitude is often misinterpreted as loneliness. When we travel alone, we have conversations with ourselves that we can’t have when others are around. /episode/index/show/strangersabroad/id/13802591

Lost 03/25/2020

Lost One of the largest plights of traveling is not knowing exactly where you are. It doesn’t matter how many websites you have on a travel board on Pinterest or how long you have stared at Google Maps, once you land it is easy to take a wrong turn. /episode/index/show/strangersabroad/id/13696019

Identity 03/17/2020

Identity Our identities shift when we go abroad. When we leave the familiar surroundings of home, we start to see ourselves from a new light and angle of the sun. What will going abroad show us about ourselves that we couldn't see and help us take control of our own identities? /episode/index/show/strangersabroad/id/13583936

Anxiety 03/17/2020

Anxiety This mini episode is the prologue to the second season of Strangers Abroad. We all experience moments of anxiety during or around the planning of our trip . /episode/index/show/strangersabroad/id/13583429

Strangers Abroad Sample Audio 05/21/2018

Strangers Abroad Sample Audio Strangers Abroad_Gimlet by Adrien Behn /episode/index/show/strangersabroad/id/7020685

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