From Casablanca to Timbuktu to the Catskills

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Jo Piazza

Relationships, Society & Culture

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🗓️ 7 June 2024

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Casey and Steven met on a study abroad program in Morocco when they were juniors in college. After school they traveled to Beijing to teach English and then to Mali to live in Timbuktu. Travel does something to a relationship. It creates intimacies and speeds up the way we learn about one another. Now, two decades later, Casey and Steven have opened an Inn together in the Catskills, they have two daughters and they have found a sense of balance and give and take in their relationship that allows the other one to thrive.

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0:00.0	Have you ever met people and thought, wow, I'm going to be friends with them for the rest of my life?
0:10.0	That's how I felt about Stephen Weinberg and Casey Cheska when I met them about three years ago in the Catskills.
0:20.0	We originally met because we have mutual friends and kids the same age, but it has so far transcended that.
0:28.0	I love these two, and I think you're going to love them too.
0:32.0	Stephen and Casey run a And I think you're going to love them too.
0:40.0	Stephen and Casey run a bed and bar called the Spruce-in-in-in together in the Catskills. They have two little girls.
0:42.0	Stephen also writes children's books and Casey is a debut novelist.
0:48.0	But their love story is about so much more than running off and opening an inn together, which I know is a fantasy of a lot of
0:57.2	our listeners. See, Casey and Stephen actually met in Morocco on a study abroad program.
1:03.4	Yeah, yeah.
1:05.3	And then when they graduated college, they moved to Beijing and Timbuktu together.
1:12.6	The beginning of their story is all about how travel breaks us wide open
1:17.1	and leaves so much space for intimate relationships to blossom.
1:21.7	And I love it. I do. I mean, let's be honest, when you are traveling in far-flung places and eating
1:29.6	all of the spicy food and then living in very close quarters. You are going to get
1:35.4	close real fast and you're going to learn how to navigate some things. You are, you are.
2:17.0	So without further ado, Casey Cheska and Stephen Weinberg. Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh. Oh, I do.
2:19.0	It is, it's a little strange to be doing the show with you.
2:24.0	One, because you are two of my closest friends
2:28.0	and two, because I feel like I already intimately know your story so well, but I know your story so well and I love it so much that I want to tell the whole world about it.
2:40.0	So I'm going to ask you questions as if I don't know you, as if you are strangers to me.
2:46.6	When I tell people my meet cute with Nick Astor, how I met Nick in the Galapagos Islands.
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