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Extra Pack of Peanuts Travel Podcast

Life as an Expat & Reverse Culture Shock

Extra Pack of Peanuts Travel Podcast

Travis Sherry

Society & Culture, Places & Travel, Society & Culture:places & Travel

4.6890 Ratings

🗓️ 3 April 2018

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Summary

What's it like to live in another country, and then return to your home country? Is reverse culture shock a bad thing? Dive into a deep conversation with Trav & Jason!

Transcript

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0:00.0

Jay was on an epic, epic,

0:02.0

epic,

0:03.0

about Google Maps, about US airports,

0:08.0

literally said, like, US airports are the worst,

0:11.0

from the decor, to the lines, to the people working there.

0:15.0

Get the security right.

0:18.0

The extra pack ofuts Travel Podcast.

0:25.3

Episode 3.15

0:28.8

Norway's first aircraft hijacking was resolved after the hijacker surrendered his weapon in exchange for more beer.

0:38.0

At $12 a beer, I can see why that guy might have been a little bit crazy.

0:42.8

The very first trip that I took to live abroad as an expat

0:50.1

was when I moved to Switzerland. And that trip had a bit of an inauspicious start.

0:56.8

You see when I got off the train to then walk the mile to the house where I was going to

1:00.9

live for the next four months. My rolling bag luggage, I had

1:05.5

two 50 pound suitcases. One of the wheels broke right off of my luggage. It was a brand new suitcase.

1:11.9

I had went out to like

1:12.6

TJ Max or Marshals right before that. Got in this big heart shell suitcase. The

1:16.8

wheel fell right off the moment I got off the train and I was stuck dragging

1:21.2

what was about at that point 50 pounds of like just dead weight a mile

1:26.9

to the house I was going to live in for the next four months so not a great start for

1:31.6

me when it came to expat life and luggage.

1:34.0

Thankfully now, no matter where I'm going, whether I'm traveling abroad,

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