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My Solo Road

Queer Safety & a Vintage Van | ft. Gene & Shay

My Solo Road

mysoloroad

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

4.9937 Ratings

🗓️ 21 December 2022

⏱️ 79 minutes

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Summary

Today we are sitting down with my good friends Gene + Shay! They are a queer couple that started their van life journey in 2020 in their 1984 dodge campervan and two cats Bean + Sprout. We’re diving into what it’s like to have two cats on the road, queer van life including how Gene (they/them) navigates places as a non-binary individual, their timelines of coming out, and the lessons that they have learned on the road. They also remind us that things will test you on the road but it’s always worth it! Episode notes > https://divineontheroad.com/queer-safety-on-the-road/ Connect with Sydney: https://divineontheroad.com/ https://www.instagram.com/divineontheroad/ https://www.tiktok.com/@divineontheroad https://shopdivineontheroad.com/collections/coffee (Shop “Divine On The Road” coffee!) https://bit.ly/sydneybali2023 (Join Sydney in Bali in May) Connect with Gene + Shay: https://www.geneandshay.com/ https://www.instagram.com/geneandshay https://www.tiktok.com/@geneandshay

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0:00.0

You are listening to My Solo Road by Divine Media.

0:08.0

Hello friends, welcome back to My Solo Road.

0:10.0

It is Sydney.

0:12.0

Hi, hello. If you are a first-time listener, welcome. Thank you

0:16.1

for being here. And if you are a returning listener, thank you always. Love you so much.

0:21.8

You know how it is. And yes yes I'm so excited for today's

0:24.9

episode we are going to be sitting down with Jean and Shay a couple of my

0:28.7

dear friends full transparency I feel like I'm not I don't need to tell you this but like I feel like I tell you everything.

0:36.0

We recorded this episode like a year ago that is not an exaggeration. As you know I had kind of like a year of podcast paralysis where I was not publishing any

0:46.3

episodes but I was in fact recording a few and I recorded this one kind of at the beginning

0:51.2

of that whole experience of that whole journey if you will.

0:55.6

And so it obviously deserves to like live out there in the universe so we will be listening to it today.

1:01.6

But if there's like any dated references to where I might be traveling

1:06.4

or where maybe they are traveling or how long they've been in their van for, that is why.

1:11.3

And so yeah, I just feel like I wanted to preface with that but we talk all about

1:15.5

Cats and van life they have two cats being in sprout we talk all about the layout of their van the type of vehicle that they have it's a little bit older which I feel like

1:24.0

always comes with kind of a different and deeper type of love for the vehicle itself

1:28.6

versus like my white Ford Transit it's not like I'm obsessed with that, you know, like seeing them. But they have a really unique, cool van that they love dearly. And we talk a lot about queer van life. They are a queer couple on the road. And so they talk about safety they share resources and like much much more

1:45.7

so I am very excited I love Gene and Shay so much and if you do not already follow

1:50.8

them you totally should I'm excited for you to get to follow them, you totally should.

1:52.5

I'm excited for you to get to meet them for the first time,

1:55.0

if that's the case.

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