Traveling Grannies with Ellie and Sandy

The Atlas Obscura Podcast

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Places & Travel, Society & Culture

4.6 • 1.8K Ratings

🗓️ 18 September 2025

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Inspired by the novel and movie Around the World in Eighty Days, Eleanor Hamby and Dr. Sandra Hazelip (Ellie and Sandy) ventured out and took the world by storm as they turned 81 years old. Ellie and Sandy’s book, Here We Go: Lessons for Living Fearlessly from Two Traveling Nanas, is out now! And if their story resonated with you about traveling at an older age, tell us about it. Give us a call at 315-992-7902 and leave a message telling us your name and story. Or you can record a voice memo and email it to us at hello@atlasobscura.com

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0:00.0	Well, let's start with a simple question. Who are you two? Well, I am Ellie Hamby and I'm Sandy Hayslop.
0:09.8	And we actually went around the world in 80 days at 81 and still on the run. So that's kind of, in a nutshell, who we are.
0:22.4	Okay.
0:22.9	I see this is probably A, not the first time you've done this.
0:26.4	And B, you have your, you have your duo act like, well, Corey, it got that.
0:30.4	We do.
0:30.8	We got that one, Dan.
0:32.0	We've done it a lot.
0:33.3	That's kind of your mantra, I think.
0:36.0	Will you say it one more time for me?
0:38.2	Around the world and 80 days at 81 and still on the run.
0:45.0	Amazing.
0:45.8	What is the origin story of this phrase?
0:48.6	Well, it just means that no matter your age, the world, there's a great big, wonderful, beautiful world out there
0:56.8	filled with the most amazing people just waiting for you to cross their path or to see the
1:02.5	beauty.
1:03.4	And it doesn't matter the age, so we're still running after it.
1:07.3	Thank you. after it.
1:20.3	I'm Dylan Thuris, and this is Atlas of Skira, a celebration of the world's strange,
1:22.0	incredible, and wondrous places.
1:28.6	Today, we are talking to Eleanor Hamby and Dr. Sandra Hazlip, aka Ellie and Sandy.
1:36.5	They are two women in their 80s, grandmothers, who decided that they wanted to travel the world and accidentally became a viral media sensation when they did it.
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