Hotel Guys - Global Hotel Guys Rich and Paul

The Hotel Guys are on the road again! Our six month visit to India in 2017 left us yearning for more. More. More! We’ll drink tea in Darjeeling. Take a river cruise in Assam. Visit remote carved temples. Ride rickshaws in teeming cities. We’ll see old friends and undoubtedly make many new ones. After three months touring incredible India, we’ll push on to Thailand to integrate on the beach in the south and then meander the old city of Chiang Mai in the north. By February 2020 we’ll still have more than three months of our “Open-Hearted” excursion remaining. Enjoy listening to our podcast now and then join us throughout our adventures! Keep traveling!

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Our Heart-to-Heart tour began September 2019 in Darjeeling, West Bengal near the end of the regions persistent monsoon. So charming. With sweeping Himalayan vistas. Surrounded by lush tea plantations! 

In Darjeeling, we met Rajiv Mitra a dynamic local tea merchant. Darjeeling produces the oft-described champagne of teas. Rajiv purveys only single-estate, premium teas at teaemporium.net. We became good friends. Listen to our informative and lively conversation.

Listen in as we reflect on recent travels in Turkey, Peru and more. We’re wrapping-up our year-long Discover Tour. Listen to our informative and lively conversation below. Moderated by Nancy Ward.

We turned to the Swedes for inspiration and practicality as we drastically downsized our personal belongings and freed ourselves from the burden of too much stuff!

We recap the end of our 2023 South American travel with stories from the wine country of Mendoza, Argentina to celebrating Mardi Gras in Brazil and our visit to Iguazu Falls ending with a retelling of our experiences on Easter Island. We start with our incredible emergency plane landing story!

We started traveling together from the moment we met almost 17 years ago. And now, we’re on an ambitious, it would seem for the time being continuous, excursion traveling the world! As of the beginning of this tour — our eighth — we’ve vacated our Portland, Oregon USA home and are officially itinerant! Bring it on!

There are natural inflection points where one tour stops and another starts. The Naturale Tour started December 2023, right on the heels of the Discover Tour. Now we’re in Indonesia for a whole month with Sri Lanka on deck. We’re learning so much and loving our nomadic retirement lifestyle!

Our Naturale Tour aspiration? Can we be naked a third of the time? We’re working on it!

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