How To Plan A Solo Abroad Trip | Drop A Pin Ep. 69
Drop A Pin
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🗓️ 2 February 2026
⏱️ 75 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, Barstool listeners, you can find every episode of this show on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or YouTube. |
| 0:05.4 | Prime members can listen ad-free on Amazon Music. |
| 0:08.2 | People don't have, but I think you'll be able to pick it up. |
| 0:11.2 | Yeah, I'm not too worried about doing the content portion, but what I really want to pick your brain on today is how to travel solo abroad. |
| 0:21.9 | Okay. |
| 0:22.2 | I feel like that's what I want to really focus in on and start off. |
| 0:26.9 | Like, let's go through some of your horror stories. |
| 0:29.6 | Because it couldn't have been, I'm moving to China and everything's going to be completely |
| 0:33.9 | smooth with me going by myself. |
| 0:37.1 | Um, yeah. And I guess that wasn't even just a solo abroad trip. |
| 0:40.0 | That was just moving abroad. |
| 0:42.0 | Thank God I ran into those scousers who took me under their wing. |
| 0:45.6 | But, yeah, the first couple weeks were rough. |
| 0:47.8 | Like just, I mean, that was being in China, and I didn't know a word of Chinese. |
| 0:52.5 | Right. |
| 0:53.1 | So anytime I left my apartment, I kind of know a word of Chinese. Right. Um, so anytime I left the, |
| 0:55.1 | the, the, my apartment, I kind of just needed the address written in Chinese somewhere on a |
| 1:00.0 | piece of paper. And that was my like backup. Like if I get lost, I'm just kind of like walk into a |
| 1:05.5 | hotel, walk out to someone, just show them this. So I didn't even like, I didn't know how to |
| 1:09.8 | sound out Chinese words. I didn't know the tones So I didn't even, like, I didn't know how to sound out Chinese words. |
| 1:11.0 | I didn't know the tones. |
| 1:13.5 | Um, so yeah, I, I would get, uh, very lost my first few times venturing out in China. |
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