Marrying Your Passions: The DINK Travel and Adventure Podcast

Custom Travel in Costa Rica and Beyond: What We Learned From Explore the Americas Our most recent episode takes us south of the border to talk with Melanie Marsell and Kathleen Hall, co-founders of Explore the Americas , formerly Dive the Americas .  If you have not listened yet, go check out Episode 28 first, then come back here for the details, resources for your next international trip, and a few things we did not have time to cover on the mic. We've loved our time in Latin America and the Caribbean. So, having Kathleen and Melanie on the show to learn more about traveling in the region was a blast.  Who They Are Melanie was born in Costa Rica, moved to Florida around age 10, and went back after college to study tourism at UF and build her career in the region. She is a self described lifelong entrepreneur in the making. Kathleen came to Costa Rica in 2015 to finish a biology degree, told herself she would stay an extra year, and never left. She never planned to run a ...

Montreal, Canada: The Trip That Started It All This post accompanies Episode 27 of Marrying Your Passions, "Montreal Travel Guide: Old Montreal, Mont Royal & Notre Dame Basilica." Listen to the full conversation for the stories, the laughs, and everything we could not fit into this post. Nathan and Alicia visiting Mont Royal way back in 2006. Their first trip EVER together as a couple! Before marriage. Before the 50 state marathon quest. Before any of it, there was Montreal. This one goes back further than almost anything else we've ever written about. Back to August 2006, when we took our very first trip together as a couple, and back again to 2023, when we finally made it back and got to see it all with completely different eyes. Where It All Began It was the summer between Nathan's undergraduate and graduate degrees, and Alicia was already in law school. We'd been officially dating for about five or six months, honestly probably less than that when the tri...