Gary’s Q&A

Listener question & Gary’s response · Transcript passage

Dan Last asks, I found this podcast through The Amateur Traveler Podcast a few years back. It sounds like you and Chris know each other professionally, but are you friends in real life? How did you meet? Keep up the great work, guys! Dan from Cleveland, OH.

Yes, I’ve known Chris for quite a while. We were co-hosts of a podcast called This Week in Travel for 11 years. I’ve lost count of the number of countries that we’ve met each other in.

I first met Chris when I started listening to Amateur Traveler when I was traveling. I contacted him and was a guest on the show for the first time when I talked about Micronesia. I recorded the show from an internet cafe in Yogyakarta, Indonesia.

We met each other in person at a travel blog conference in 2009 in Chicago.

I recently had the pleasure of inducting Chris into the Podcasting Hall of Fame earlier this year in Florida.