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Intermission: The Journey to the Other Side of the Bridge (Episode 36)

Thu, 05 Aug 2021 08:00:00 -0700

Travel is with all of us as a fundamental part of being human. On our journey we occasionally come to bridges. We stop in the middle sometimes and look around, watch the water flow by, gaze at the trees and the sky, and look to the other side. This "Intermission" Episode lies between what was and what will be. We look to the side where we came from during Season 1. We look to the horizon on the other side. As much as we like to think we know what it will be like, we don't. Stay to the end and we'll walk together off the bridge and travel on. Let's leave it up to fate, adventure, the people we will meet, and what is far greater than ourselves.

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Episode 35: Delivered Direct to You From Kileleshwa & Ace Hardware

Thu, 29 Jul 2021 12:00:00 -0700

A few random moments walking in Africa. From the tent to the main dining area unaccompanied by a Maasai guard makes you look extra closely for any sign of movement. Hornbills in Kileleshwa. A Maasai Warrior discusses the process of taking on another wife. And another. And another. A chance meeting at Ace hardware (although it's hard to meet a Maasai Warrior there). This 35th Episode of the Metamo Podcast is a bridge of sorts - like the monkey bridges over the Lunga Lunga Road near Diani Beach, south of Mombasa, Kenya. A bridge to other side of something. You just want to land in an aisle seat or perhaps a window seat, to be able to get more sleep. It is always a toss up. Get that glass of wine or cup of tea, take that walk or get on the treadmill. Relax friend and we'll see you inside the podcast (and again on the other side).

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Episode 34: The Birds & the Chee (tahs) with David and Ronah Saunders

Wed, 21 Jul 2021 05:00:00 -0700

Birds are special creatures. While there are no bees in this episode, there are cheetahs. How about you....Do you have a spirit animal? And how about a spirt bird? On this episiode we visit again with our dear friends David and Ronah. We give them a surprise quiz to see if we can stump them. We then go on a story safari with them to hear of a couple wildlife adventures from the field and beyond. Get your binoculars and get ready for white bellied go-a-way birds, lilac breasted rollers, and of course, king fishers and more!

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Episode 33: The Winds of Travel - A Conversation with Chris McCaffrey Part 2

Wed, 14 Jul 2021 05:00:00 -0700

The winds of travel can blow you all the way around the world and back again. And again and again. They can take you to a cafe in Uttar Pradesh or on a wild rickshaw race from Rajasthan to Kerala in India. It can take you to a fashion show in Nairobi where you have to piece together your 'best' traveling clothes into the best combination you can comically muster up. You end up on a boat off of Lamu Island fishing with string line for lunch along the mangroves and getting sea sick only to remember it, with time, as one of your favorite traveling experiences as predicted by a wise Swedish woman at the time. Or perhaps the winds carry you to Mexico where serendipity and fate of our times lead you to teach English for a year and write a book with someone you met in a the cafe back in Uttar Pradesh. Importantly, travel gives you a deeper and richer perspective on life and a warm appreciation of home.

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Episode 32: The Winds of Travel - A Conversation with Chris McCaffrey Part 1

Thu, 08 Jul 2021 05:00:00 -0700

When travel gets in your blood, watch out. Life will never be the same. 9 to 5's exist in that other world far away - you toss up grass blades to test the wind more often. If the wind is blowing toward the southern hemisphere, you may travel in that direction. When it blows north, you are inclined to follow it back. The wind might even blow you to a German bakery in Varanasi on the banks of the Ganges River in India. You heard about this bakery from other travelers also following the wind. You order, of all things, penne pasta. You are seated next to someone you've never met before. You end up writing a book together. The winds of travel.

Episode 31: Doors that Open to Insight & Pool Tables

Thu, 01 Jul 2021 05:00:00 -0700

Pool is like life in many ways. You can make a great shot but if you aren't planning for what comes next, or use the wrong or too much 'English,' ... watch out. 🎱

On this episode we travel from the smokey pool rooms of yesteryear to a most interesting room in India. We find a rich landscape of characters as we find ourselves in places and circumstances we were not supposed to be in but in reality we were. The hidden depths are like the pool balls that drop into the pockets and disappear into the abyss, only to show up on the others side (hopefully not joined by the cue ball). When we 'break' we hope for the best on this precarious if delicious journey across the landscape of travel like the top of the green felt of a pool table.

Namaste 🙏🏽

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Episode 30: The Coca-Cola Incident

Thu, 24 Jun 2021 05:00:00 -0700

Have you ever accidentally left a restaurant without paying your bill? Only to sometime later and quite unexpectedly have the unintended discrepancy righted without expecting it? Life can be that way. The best moments we don't always recognize until years, if not decades, later. We have a lot to learn. From a booth in the lost in time 'Eff' Restaurant in Nairobi off of Tubman Road (which no longer exists), we begin a story that one would never imagine being a story in the first place. If the bill was paid like it should have been ... we wouldn't be talking about it now and there wouldn't be a story. Well, such is life.

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Episode 29: The Sparkle of Humanity - > Hospitality

Wed, 16 Jun 2021 13:00:00 -0700

Hospitality goes back to our primordial roots - welcoming strangers who brought news from the distant lands. Today it can seem like a lost art - a transaction rather the sparkle of humanity. In this episode we explore hospitality's roots but also go to where it is thriving today, in East Africa. Some say it's something you can't teach. If that is the case, those in the safari industry at the lodges, tented camps, resorts and hotels, are born with a great gift. As a traveler to Africa, you will be welcomed and cared for probably like you never have been before.

So welcome strangers and friends alike. Put your feet up and enjoy the podcast. We'll bring you an ice cold fresh washcloth to wipe off the safari dust and some chilled paw paw juice. Now refreshed, sit back and tell stories of the day and dream of your adventures to come.

Karibu mgeni! (Welcome stranger!)

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Episode 28: Verbal & Non-Verbal Communication traveling 100,000's of Miles Per Hour!

Thu, 10 Jun 2021 05:00:00 -0700

We travel. We love life. We get up in the morning and walk outside. We go through our day in wondrous ways. When we pack out bags for a journey out into the world - whether it's to our job or on a great adventure beyond our borders, do we consider what non-material things we need to pack and bring along? Of course we don't want to forget our passport or our underwear but we also don't want to miss out on the richness that lies below the surface of the material world that we want to bring with us. On this first Internal Packing List Guide Podcast, we explore the non-material world of human communication as we travel hundreds of thousands of miles per hour together on this great journey.

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Episode 27: Having Fun & Mixing It Up with Bob Spoerl

Tue, 01 Jun 2021 16:00:00 -0700

Have you ever got mugged but didn't know it? How about ending up in a Russian hospital and being told you might have to find a different way home to America other than how you got there? From a small abode in El Salvador to the birthplace of the Beatles, we have some fun and mix it up with our regular co-host Bob Spoerl about his travels and life lessons learned. Even Bob is surprised at how travel has almost unwittingly influenced everything from his work to his music. To shake it up even further, our former guest Jenna Adeleke (see Episode 25) joins us to co-host this episode with Greg. We have a blast with Bob, learn how spirituality has influenced his travels and, to add some frosting to the cake, get to hear part of one of Bob's recently released songs, High, Happy, Haunted with the lyrics written by Bob's wife Deanna.

Bob is owner of the global communications company, Bear Icebox Communications based out of Chicago. Visit the Bear Icebox website for all of your communications and PR needs:

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Bob and his wife Deanna bring you their funny and boundary pushing (well not too far but they do walk to the edge) podcast Grocery Chat each week at:

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Episode 26: A Solo Flight Across the Landscape of Travel

Wed, 26 May 2021 13:00:00 -0700

In this episode Greg flies solo for the first time and gives us an overview of where we are on our Metamo Travel Podcast journey now that we have passed 25 Episodes. We take a look at the concept of travel, with all of its twists and turns presented to us along the way. The episode gives us a forest above the trees look at why we travel and how it can add quality and perspective to our lives. For good measure and to keep our bearings, a few stories are sprinkled in along the way. Buckle up, enjoy the ride, and we'll see you on the other side.

Episode 25: A long ride from Beni with 4 wives and plenty of surprises

Thu, 20 May 2021 16:00:00 -0700

In our 25th Episode, Greg describes a "typical" ride on his journey across Africa which was full of surprises. We learn how to make a certain kind of traveler's stew, seasoned with a spattering of languages, thickened with a certain ingredient, and thrown against the wall until it sticks. We meet the wives of a certain and forgotten Zaïrois owner of a flatbed truck, experience light inside a glowing pumpkin, and come out the other side of night into a magical scene. Hold on to your seat (if you can find one) and journey on.

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Episode 24: Melodies you never delete in your mind, with WIldlife Guide and Birding Expert John Wanyokie

Thu, 13 May 2021 05:00:00 -0700

John Wanyokie spent four years at the Nairobi National Museum but his mind and heart are in the forests of Kenya listening to the magical sounds or out guiding on safari in the bush. John shares with us today his passion for conservation, wildlife, and how birds affect his life. John discusses the importance of travel and how following his Mom to work one day when he wasn't supposed to opened up new pathways.

Episode 23: Instantaneous connections bursting with vibrancy & love in Nigeria with Jenna Adeleke

Thu, 06 May 2021 13:00:00 -0700

Deep in a bustling and vibrant market in Nigeria, Jenna Adeleke shares a transformational moment in her life. In an instant, she knows just what she will do. The humanity, the energy, and the vibrant colors permeate her very being. Jenna would never be the same. The story really begins in America when she first meets and makes an instant connection with the love of her life, "Leke." In this episode, Jenna travels to Nigeria to meet her African family for the very first time. She is blown away by the love, the warm hospitality, and the genuine connections she makes with her new family. Jenna's passion for her 3 trips to Africa is contagious. She tells stories ranging descriptions of the culture, the food, to the brilliant colors everywhere. Sit back and relax and enjoy - if this doesn't make you want to go to Africa to experience the culture and life there, nothing probably will.

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Episode 22: Probing the waters of transformational travel

Thu, 29 Apr 2021 05:00:00 -0700

In this episode Bob and Greg probe the waters of the topic of transformational travel. At the heart transformational travel is the realization that the journey we are on is not so much an external journey but an internal one. One goes out into the world to explore and seek exciting experiences but transformation cuts both ways: the people you meet can be influenced by you as much (or more) than you are by them. Metamo's mission is to provide a more fulfilling way to travel and to transform the lives of children through its One-to-One Promise in the process, providing education to children who might not otherwise have the opportunity. This episode skims the surface of transformational travel looking for opportunities to take a deeper dive along the way.

Episode 21: A tiny spec on the floor of Ngorongoro Crater together with 30,000 large mammals

Wed, 21 Apr 2021 05:00:00 -0700

Each wildlife safari has its own magic to it. You never see the same scene twice. In this episode Bob asks Greg to share an example of a memorable safari he has been on. They end up on safari on the floor of Ngorongoro Crater in Tanzania, patiently watching lions hunt a notoriously ferocious beast known as the "widowmaker." Ngorongoro Crater is one of the most stunning wildlife sanctuaries in the world. It was once a massive volcano which may have been even bigger than Kilimanjaro. On the floor of this largest intact caldera in the world live nearly 30,000 large mammals. Let's journey together to meet a few of them on this episode.

Episode 20: A Switch of Fate in Kuwait: a conversation with Maan Alyagout (Part 2)

Wed, 14 Apr 2021 05:00:00 -0700

In this episode we continue our discussion with Maan Alyagout. Maan describes how he was able to escape from Kuwait during the invasion by Iraq in 1990 into Saudi Arabia. A great storyteller, Maan continues to describe his journey that led him from the deserts of Arabia to the redwood forests of Northern California. Using his wits and diplomatic savvy, Maan escapes with his life with dreams of returning to Humboldt County, where we speak with him today.

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Episode 19: A Shift of Fate in Kuwait - a conversation with Maan Alyagout: Part 1

Thu, 08 Apr 2021 11:00:00 -0700

Our interview with Maan Alyagout takes us on a journey from the deserts of Kuwait, to the redwood forests of Humboldt County California, and back again. A great calamity befell the Kuwaiti people in 1990. The invasion of Kuwait ensues and Maan finds himself in the middle of the morass. Using his wits and diplomatic savvy, Maan escapes with his life with dreams of returning to the redwood forests of Humboldt County California - where we speak with him today.

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Episode 18: How to Be a Digital Nomad: Debbie Arcangeles, Creator of The Offbeat Life

Wed, 31 Mar 2021 05:00:00 -0700

Today, we have a very special guest. Debbie Archangels is the host of The Offbeat Life. A podcast where she interviews travelers who ditched their 9-5 to become remote entrepreneurs and digital nomads. Debbie is also the founder of Howtocreateapodcast.com, a podcast consulting agency where she helps serious podcasters gain authority and income through their show.

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Episode 17: Surreal animal sightings on safari: David and Ronah return to the podcast

Tue, 23 Mar 2021 05:00:00 -0700

On this episode we welcome back two special guests, David and Ronah Saunders. David and Ronah share with us just a few of their favorite stories in the wild. Ronah describes coming across a den of baby hyenas (she really wanted to bring one back home!). David recounts one of their most exciting safari experiences in Maasai Mara where smart wildebeest calf runs directly to their safari vehicle attempting to avoid almost certain death from a coalition of cheetahs surrounding it. The tension builds and the fate of the wildebeest hangs by a thread. There are more stories too!

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Episode 16: Transcontinental motorcycle adventures with Ryan Libhart Pereyda & Nathan Wirt: Part 2

Tue, 16 Mar 2021 05:00:00 -0700

Ryan Libhart Pereyda & Nathan Wirt push the boundaries of travel to the outermost limits. As they describe their wild adventures riding motorcycles from South America to California, across the US, Europe, the Middle East and Africa, there seems to be no limit to how far these two friends and travel mates would go in the name of adventure. Our story picks up here as the two venture to all the way to Nairobi, Kenya. There, they meet someone who becomes a special friend (and who keeps an artifact from their trip). Life lessons and resourcefulness, insights into different cultures, and a sundry of stories from Nate and Rien on their two epic journeys together await you!

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Episode 15: Transcontinental motorcycle adventures with Ryan Libhart Pereyda & Nathan Wirt: Part 1

Thu, 11 Mar 2021 16:00:00 -0800

Ryan Libhart Pereyda & Nathan Wirt push the boundaries of travel to the outermost limits. As they describe their wild adventures riding motorcycles from South America to California, across the US, Europe, the Middle East and Africa, there seems to be no limit to how far these two friends and travel mates would go in the name of adventure. Their stories ultimately take us deeper and deeper into remote Africa across deserts to a remote oasis near the Libyan border, through war-torn no-man-land countries like Sudan and Somalia, and into some of the most isolated parts of East Africa and beyond. Life lessons and resourcefulness, insights into different cultures, and a sundry of stories from Nate and Rien on their two epic journeys together await you, never knowing what's around the next corner on Transcontinental motorcycle adventures with Ryan Libhart Pereyda & Nathan Wirt: Part 1.

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Episode 14: A cultural misstep in a 700 year-old town full of dhows, donkeys, and delightful people

Fri, 05 Mar 2021 05:00:00 -0800

When traveling off the beaten path it’s pretty easy to misread the most obvious. Sometimes we trip and fall down. Sometimes we just look foolish. And once in a while we learn something from it.

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Episode 13: A map on the back of an old napkin - a conversation with Joey Raspo, Danny Puccinelli, and Skid

Thu, 25 Feb 2021 05:00:00 -0800

Up in the hills of California's Coastal Range late at night in 1984, Joey Raspo and Skid draw out a plan on the back of an old napkin to travel to Egypt and climb to the top of the pyramids. Danny Puccinelli joins the escapade at the last hour and the three friends end up on an epic adventure. Lost Italian relatives, sand storms on the Sinai, a Bedouin encampment, a sojourn in a cave, and a climb to the top of the Great Pyramid of Giza await. This edited version of their odyssey changes the names to protect the guilty.

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Episode 12: The ride from hell, a red apple, and clean white sheets

Tue, 16 Feb 2021 05:00:00 -0800

In this episode, we pick up where we left off last week. Greg is 1,000 miles from the coast to complete his journey across the continent of Africa. His last ride ends up being perhaps the worst one yet and he enters a Zen-like state to get through it. He reaches Cameroon and spies something on a train so familiar yet so foreign at the same time. Greg finally knocks on the door of a French mission only to have to talk his way in using extremely limited French. Finally, he takes a six-hour plane ride back to Nairobi and reflects on his seven-month journey.

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Episode 11: Welcome to Bangui: A bribe, a screwdriver and a crazy Emperor

Tue, 09 Feb 2021 05:00:00 -0800

We pick up where we left off on Greg’s epic journey across the continent of Africa. On this week’s episode, Greg discusses his time in the Central African Republic. He makes his way from Zongo to Bangui across the Ubgangi River (after having to bribe to get there). Then, he escapes a curious kid holding a long screwdriver who kept following him, and runs into a motorcade with the country’s infamous self-proclaimed former Emperor Jean-Bédel Bokassa. All in search of a cholera shot to get back out of the country.

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Episode 10: Escaping Hotel California to Dance Kwasa Kwasa

Tue, 02 Feb 2021 05:00:00 -0800

Greg continues sharing his stories from his epic adventure across Africa. On this episode, he’s just left Bumba after recovering from malaria. He stays at a Hotel Californiaesque place in Lisala where he hears a knock on the door only to be surprised by a strange creature. Then, after sleeping on trucks, he makes his way to Zongo and enjoys the dancing, beer, and listening to kwasa kwasa. And then, the lights across the Ubangi River draw him in, but he needs to bribe his way to get there. But that’s for the next episode!

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Episode 9: An exposé of music, light, healing, and travel with André Ripa (Part 2)

Sat, 23 Jan 2021 15:00:00 -0800

This is the second part of our back-to-back episodes with André Ripa. You can learn more about his transformative work at Spirit Musique, where he merges music and powerful imagery with today’s most compelling technologies. Spirit Healing Arts is his platform for teaching, facilitating and co-creating expansive health and conscious growth. On this episode, we explore "Prayer for Humanity," André’s newest album recorded and released during the pandemic.

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Episode 8: An exposé of music, light, healing, and travel with André Ripa (Part 1)

Thu, 21 Jan 2021 21:00:00 -0800

André Ripa is our guest on back-to-back episodes. His work with Spirit Musique promotes human transformation through the creation of immersive entertainment experiences that merge uplifting music and powerful imagery with today’s most compelling technologies. Spirit Healing Arts is his platform for teaching, facilitating and co-creating expansive health and conscious growth. Learn about André’s powerful passion for his life’s work to bring music and light into the world!

Episode 7: How to make friends with rogue militia in Zaire

Thu, 14 Jan 2021 15:00:00 -0800

Greg Traverso vividly describes his encounters with the military in Zaire. From an intense moment out of nowhere when machine guns are drawn, to a little bent nail serving as the lock on the door of his shack inside a remote military outpost, to an encounter with a scalawag corporal and his minions on the banks of the Congo River and a strange request for safe passage, Greg shares his foray into no man's land.

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Episode 6: The Art of negotiating with a 350 pound gorilla

Fri, 08 Jan 2021 11:00:00 -0800

On this week's episode, Greg shares the story of how he and his wife Susan traveled together on their epic overland adventure from Kenya to Zaire through all kinds of hurdles and hoops to see the endangered mountain gorillas. To get there and back they ride on trains, local buses, matatus, back of trucks and even motorcycles. Trekking up the sides of volcanoes in Virunga National Park, they encounter the gorillas and spend a story-filled magical hour with them. Finding their way back to civilization brings further adventure, exhaustion, and fun.

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Episode 5: Breaking out of the bubble with passion + PB &J - a conversation with Sam Richardson

Wed, 30 Dec 2020 18:00:00 -0800

Sam Richardson wakes up excited about life everyday with a sense of adventure and wonder. Whether it's climbing Kilimanjaro or up the side of a volcano in search of Mountain Gorillas in Rwanda, studying in Ghana, or hiking or biking around his home in San Francisco, California and beyond, Sam believes in embracing life and living it to the fullest. After so many adventures around the world at such a young age, Sam has taken his love of life and adventure to start Sam's Adventure Snacks where he crafts PB & J's and inspires people to inspire one another by sharing their stories about Fitness, Adventure, and Nutrition.

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Episode 4: How to lose 50 lbs while canoeing across the Congo

Wed, 23 Dec 2020 16:00:00 -0800

In this episode, Bob Spoerl interviews his co-host Greg Traverso about Greg’s epic expedition across the continent of Africa. Hitchhiking, traveling by matatu, boat, foot, and canoe, Greg makes his way across the breath of Africa from the Indian Ocean to the Atlantic. Sleeping in villages deep in the Congo rainforest, losing 50 pounds, and has all kinds of adventures and misadventures along the way. This and plenty more on Metamo!

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Episode 3: From the Lion Center to the Epicenter: An interview with Abby Guthmann

Thu, 17 Dec 2020 15:00:00 -0800

On this week's episode, Greg and Bob are joined by Abby Guthmann. Abby is a Ph D. student at the University of Minnesota and a member of the Lion Center Team under Dr. Craig Parker. Abby discusses the fascinating conservation work she does near the Maasai Mara in Kenya and the pivotal role the travel experience has played in her life studying ecosystems, behavior adaptation, and human-wildlife conflict mitigation. Abby hopes to contribute to the conservation of vulnerable populations in increasingly altered landscapes.

Her current research focuses on how cattle management strategies may affect ecosystem health and human-wildlife conflict mitigation in conservancies surrounding the Maasai Mara.

Learn more about Abby's work at https://lioncenter.umn.edu/

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Episode 2: In the Name of Love: From California and Zambia to Nairobi with David & Ronah Saunders

Thu, 10 Dec 2020 15:00:00 -0800

On this week’s episode, Greg and Bob are joined by David and Ronah Saunders who lead the Red Rhino Outreach Project in Kenya. The two met in Kenya and have been a transformational travel duo ever since. They discuss the role travel plays in their life and how it’s help lead them to where they are.

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Episode 1: From the Sierras to Safaris

Thu, 03 Dec 2020 09:00:00 -0800

Join us for the very first installment of Metamo, a podcast about adventure and transformational travel. Metamo provides modern explorers with a more fulfilling way to travel. In this episode, Greg Traverso, founder of Metamo, shares the story about how he first started traveling the world, starting in his own home state of California. That and plenty more on Metamo.

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Trailer: Metamo, a podcast pushing the boundaries of travel

Wed, 25 Nov 2020 14:00:00 -0800

Welcome to Metamo, a podcast where we explore with you and our guests travel topics that push the boundaries in celebration of the human experience.

Co-hosts Greg Traverso -- who has spent more than 20 years organizing African adventures from Kilimanjaro to the Serengeti to The Congo and beyond -- and Bob Spoerl, an avid traveler who runs a communications firm covering 15 different time zones share travel stories that range from the sublime to the ridiculous, and everything in between.

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New episodes airing weekly beginning in December.

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