Our worst travel challenge moments | Coffee Break Ep13 | 6-4-24
Frequent Miler on the Air
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🗓️ 4 June 2024
⏱️ 20 minutes
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Summary
(00:00) - You know that sinking feeling when you know things are going wrong? With a brand new travel challenge just launched last night, we've got our past travel challenge snafus in mind.
Coffee Break: Our worst travel challenge moments(02:53) - 40K to Far Away
Learn more about the 2019 40K to Far Away Challenge here.
(03:09) - Greg: Train breaks. Bus breaks
Read Greg's story about his South African misadventures here.
(06:18) - Nick: Asleep on bus, can’t enter Bangkok, bike ride to nowhere
Read about Nick's misadventures during 40K to Far Away here.
(11:20) - 3 Cards, 3 Continents
Read more about the 2022 3 Cards, 3 Continents Challenge here.
(11:46) - Nick: Canyoneering
(12:48) - Greg: Air Canada married segment problem, then wouldn’t let me check in
Read more about Greg's married segment problem here.
(16:22) - Party of 5
Read more about the Party of 5 Challenge here.
(16:52) -Greg (and Nick): Santiago, arriving at the Ritz w/out a backpack
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| 0:00.0 | This is a Voyescape podcast. |
| 0:04.0 | You can find all of our travel podcasts from around the world at voyescape.com. |
| 0:08.0 | Here we go. |
| 0:16.4 | This is not your typical frequent mile on the air episode. This is a standalone segment we're calling |
| 0:22.9 | coffee break. Each coffee break segment will cover a single topic related to miles and points. |
| 0:30.2 | And each coffee break is limited to 20 minutes or your money back. Enjoy. Today's coffee break, our worst travel challenge moments. |
| 0:41.4 | You know that sinking feeling in your gut when you're traveling and something went wrong? |
| 0:47.1 | And it takes you, it dawns on you like slowly. |
| 0:49.8 | It takes you while to realize that like all heck has broken loose and and your your great plans are |
| 0:55.9 | now fully awry. That's what we're going to talk about today in in terms of things we |
| 1:01.1 | encountered on our past team challenges when things went terribly wrong. Hopefully this is not |
| 1:07.4 | foreshadowing because we are about to kick off on our 2024 challenge, our frequent |
| 1:13.6 | myler team challenge. In fact, when you can first listen to this when this first publishes, |
| 1:17.6 | we will have just known about where we're going to meet for our domestic convergence. |
| 1:22.8 | So we're going to be meeting up somewhere, Greg Tim and I on June 5th. |
| 1:26.5 | We don't know where as we record this, but by the time you listen to it, we'll know where we're going to be meeting up somewhere, Greg, Tim and I on June 5th. We don't know where as we |
| 1:27.5 | record this, but by the time you listen to it, we'll know where we're going to meet up domestically on Wednesday, June 5th. And then we're going to live stream on YouTube at 9 p.m. Eastern time on Wednesday, June 5th. Is that right? 9 p.m. I hope it's right. Yes. And we will find out from Carrie and Stephen where each of us will be going internationally. We're just |
| 1:44.6 | going to take off somewhere internationally and we're going to have travel challenges that And we will find out from Carrie and Stephen where each of us will be going internationally. |
| 1:44.3 | We're just going to take off somewhere internationally and we're going to have travel challenges that we have to meet. |
| 1:49.3 | And then after we do that in each of our own individual international destinations, |
| 1:55.1 | Carrie and Stephen will give us an international destination where the three of us need to meet up again. |
| 2:00.1 | You're going to want to follow along on Instagram to see all the adventures, all the travel |
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