The two best in the USA are Bi-Rite Creamery in San Fran (try the Roasted Banana) and Whiteys in Iowa/Illinois (try the Graham Central Station)

Sorry but a travel show with ‘best drinks of the year’ ?! You can do better ..

I used to regularly listen to this podcast back when they actually (somewhat) traveled and weren’t so full of themselves. Now, I find them insufferable. I wasn’t going to leave a one star review but this guy calling himself the Rick Steves of his is generation is begging for a rebuttal. As far as I can tell, they barely travel; they’re raising young kids and renovating houses to try to be financially independent. If that’s what you’re into, this podcast is for you! With so many people who are actually out traveling extensively, and especially some really informative YouTubers, I don’t know why anybody would spend time with this podcast. It devolved into a painful vanity project.

Listened to this a while ago. Then just came back and didn’t even recognize it.

I keep listening as I hope to hear a return to the days before real estate, year in review, and now these little short whatevers. I miss the song. I love that song. Please come back to us!

This went from being an enjoyable travel show to a rather insufferable couple that I really can’t stand to listen to. Putting aside all their shenanigans during Covid (not isolating from family and friends, traveling domestically and internationally with their small kids, getting sick and exposing people, etc) they’re also own a ton of Airbnbs, which we all know jack up property prices, displace locals, and degrade locations they’re in. I appreciate them trying to share their secret to success, but it’s not exactly helpful if it includes magically owning a house right out of college, having a parent co-sign loans with you, and using very morally questionable “investments” like Airbnb. In short this has gone from being a fun relatable podcast to being just another homage to hustle culture and platitudes about financial independence from people who already had a big head start in life. It’s also kind of amusing to me that I, a regular loser with a 9-5, have been to more places than they have, but they position themselves as experts.

Used to be a good show

This podcast used to be good now nothing but ads. Little to no travel advice. Very two faced in that they act woke about covid but travel anyway. Just travel like normal people and don’t apologize for it. Awful

So hard to listen to. Not people I could like at all.

I listened to this show for years and loved hearing them share travel tips for traveling as a couple and then with kids. I even liked the short term rental discussions. I forgave them and kept listening through the Covid faux pas of the Costa Rica trip which was spoken about at length as something that happened to them and not a crisis of their own making. However, I had to unsubscribe and stop following when Heather complained about a coffee shop that wouldn’t let her sit down inside and had her wear a mask even though “we are on the other side of Covid”. We are not! You don’t know that coffee shop owner or employees situation. Are they or someone in their family immunocompromised? Just because you are done dealing with Covid precautions doesn’t mean that every shop needs to be a Covid free for all. I’m unsubscribing, unfollowing on social and ending my many year following of EPOP. I’m so disappointed in your lack of compassion for people who are dealing with Covid safety.