How to Travel Like a Local in Retirement (Not Just a Tourist)
Big Picture Retirement®
Devin Carroll
4.7 • 545 Ratings
🗓️ 10 March 2025
⏱️ 36 minutes
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Summary
Planning to travel in retirement? In this episode, I sit down with Andrew Motiwalla from The Good Life Abroad to discuss how retirees can make the most of their travel experiences—without the stress.
We talk about:
✅ Why travel is at the top of most retirees' bucket lists
✅ How to plan trips that align with your passions
✅ The best underrated destinations for immersive experiences
✅ How to avoid common travel planning pitfalls
✅ How long-term travel is changing the way retirees experience the world
If you're looking to travel smarter, go beyond tourist hotspots, and make the most of your retirement years, this conversation is for you!
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | The Big Picture Retirement Show does not provide tax, legal, or financial advice. |
| 0:04.3 | Listeners are encouraged to seek out their own advisors in these areas. |
| 0:07.6 | COVID was a turning point in travel. |
| 0:10.0 | We saw Western European, some of the big cities that everyone knows about Paris and Florence and Barcelona. |
| 0:17.5 | Those places came back with a vengeance, record numbers of tourists that they hadn't ever seen. And other destinations, sort of the off the beaten path places, actually never recovered. Cuba, Thailand, Peru, those numbers never came back to pre-COVID levels. That actually has created a wonderful opportunity for people |
| 0:38.4 | who are willing to go to those off-the-beaten path destination because the primary ones that everyone |
| 0:43.1 | thinks about are now suffering from over-tourism. Hey, everyone, welcome to the Big Picture Retirement Show. |
| 0:50.4 | I'm your co-host, Devin, and John is out of the studio today, but we do have a guest |
| 0:55.5 | coming on. And I know for those of you who have listened to the show for a while, you know that |
| 1:00.4 | we almost never have guest. But after meeting Andrew Motihuah a few weeks back and hearing his |
| 1:07.6 | take on how retirees should approach travel, I knew that I've got to get this guy on the show. After talking to him for a while and hearing his take on how retirees should approach travel, I knew that I've got to get this guy |
| 1:11.9 | on the show. After talking to him for a while and hearing his perspective on travel, I really wanted |
| 1:18.5 | you guys to hear this. Now, Andrew's the founder of the Good Life Abroad, and he spent his entire |
| 1:23.3 | career in travel, and I think he's got some really good insights on how to make the most out of |
| 1:29.1 | your trips, whether that means finding hidden gym destinations, avoiding some common travel |
| 1:35.4 | mistakes, and just making sure that your trip aligns with what you actually want out of |
| 1:41.4 | travel and retirement in general. So if you've been thinking about |
| 1:45.0 | travel, and I know most of you are thinking about retirement, and guess what goes in with retirement, |
| 1:50.2 | travel, right? Most people want to travel in retirement. And, you know, maybe you've been thinking |
| 1:55.7 | about that and you don't know where to start. Or you just want to hear about some fantastic |
| 2:00.0 | destinations that you've probably |
| 2:02.3 | never even considered. Stick around. This is going to be a fun one. So let's get right into it |
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