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...

Chasing the Olympics: What We Learned About Milano Cortina 2026 and What You Need to Know for LA 2028 Episode 18 of Marrying Your Passions: The DINK Travel and Adventure Podcast Bryan and his family at the Olympic rings! If you have ever watched the Olympics from your couch and thought, what would it actually take to be there, this one is for you. We sat down with author and event traveler Bryan Michael, and he answered that question in a way that honestly changed how we think about bucket list travel. Bryan and his wife Shannan and their son Deacon attended the Milano Cortina 2026 Winter Olympics this past February. He came back with stories, hard-won logistics advice, and a perspective on the Games that goes deeper than just the sports. And because we have already entered the LA 2028 lottery, we had about a million questions. Here is what we learned. It Takes Years, Not Months One of the first things Bryan told us is that a trip to the Olympics is not something you plan six months ou...