Miss Adventure Podcast

Chandler O'Leary and Mary Holste

Travel tales with Chandler and Mary

Episodes

  1. 10/02/2017

    003—Paris, je t’aime

    In this episode, hosts Chandler O’Leary and Mary Holste discuss the City of Light. Topics including the Eiffel Tower, Sainte-Chapelle, the Museum of the Middle Ages, the Lady and the Unicorn, the Archeological Crypt, catacombs and ossuary, Museum of the Decorative Arts in Paris (and elsewhere), cooking store in Paris, Sacré-Cœur, Paris in the movies, Rouen, the clock at the Musee Orsay, Père Lachaise Cemetery, speaking French, travel soundtracks, Diana’s tunnel, Parisian Markets, the Rue Cler, arrondissements, and whether Madison, Wisconsin, is the Paris of the Midwest. Chandler’s sketchbook images referenced in the episode: Ile de la Cite Saint Chapelle Hotel de Sens Eiffel Tower Unicorn Tapestries, Rouen A collage of Saint Chapelle, Versailles, Musee de Cluny, and Minneapolis A melange of Chartre, Le Havre, and Stillwater Hosts Chandler O’Leary is an illustrator, letterer(erer) and entrepreneur living and working in Tacoma, Washington. She graduated from the Rhode Island School of Design (RISD), and has run an in-house imprint, Anagram Press, since 2004. She posts sketchbook drawings and road-trip-themed artwork on my illustrated travel blog, Drawn the Road Again. She is a co-author of Dead Feminists, published in 2016 by Sasquatch Books. Mary Holste is a graphic designer, artist, and entrepreneur living and working in Tacoma, Washington. She graduated with with a Bachelor of Fine Arts from Pacific Lutheran University. Since 2007, she has been running her own graphic design business, Side x Side Creative. The art mediums she is currently exploring are photography, aquatints, and cyanotype.

    43 min
  2. 10/01/2017

    002—Solo travel vs companion travel

    In this episode, hosts Chandler O’Leary and Mary Holste discuss the differences between solo travel and traveling with a companion or a group of companions. Topics and locations discussed include Chandler’s dislike of group tours, Victoria’s Butchart Gardens, tours in Israel, the Neon Boneyard in Las Vegas, Egyptian obelisks in Rome, the Queen Mary in Long Beach, dining alone, traveling alone as women, Vancouver Fashion Week, the Apocalypse tapestries, getting FOMO in Verona, Vieques Puerto Rico, San Juan Island, and traveling with husbands. Hosts Chandler O’Leary is an illustrator, letterer(erer) and entrepreneur living and working in Tacoma, Washington. She graduated from the Rhode Island School of Design (RISD), and has run an in-house imprint, Anagram Press, since 2004. She posts sketchbook drawings and road-trip-themed artwork on my illustrated travel blog, Drawn the Road Again. She is a co-author of Dead Feminists, published in 2016 by Sasquatch Books. Mary Holste is a graphic designer, artist, and entrepreneur living and working in Tacoma, Washington. She graduated with with a Bachelor of Fine Arts from Pacific Lutheran University. Since 2007, she has been running her own graphic design business, Side x Side Creative. The art mediums she is exploring right now are photography, drypoint etching, and cyanotype. Sketches mentioned in this episode These two sketches are of Butchart Gardens in Victoria B.C.

    47 min

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Travel tales with Chandler and Mary