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35 min
Roaming Roots Episode (Lucky) #13: Zoe + 1 Year Post-Trip = Interview Gold
Welcome to (Lucky) Episode #13. Zoe joins the show today to reflect on her family's trip, one year after it ended, and to share how she applies the lessons from that experience to…
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1 h 02
Roaming Roots Episode 12: Reflections Following Reentry
Welcome to Episode #12 of The Roaming Roots Podcast (not #11, as Brian mistakenly said in the introduction!). Brent and Abby join the show today to offer thoughtful reflections on…
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45 min
Roaming Roots 11: It's Zoe's Episode And We Just Get To Live In It
Welcome back for this special Zoe-centric episode of Roaming Roots. Listen along as Zoe takes the mic to interview Simon, her dad and her mom. She is quite the interviewer, adept w…
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57 min
Roaming Roots Episode 10: Namibia -> Turkey: Two countries, One Adventure Race, and The World's Greatest Lodge…
Welcome to the Season Finale of Roaming Roots. For our 10th episode, we catch up with Brent and Abby the evening before their flight home from Turkey to the United States. Since ou…
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1 h 10
Roaming Roots Episode 9: Wrapping up Rwanda, Trip Logistics, and Showing Zoe The Best Movie Ever
With their trip to Rwanda ending, Abby and Brent reflect on their time in-country, the things they've seen in a nation trying to move on from its troubled past, and the logistics o…
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58 min
Roaming Roots Episode 8: Zoe from Zanzibar! (plus some Simon, Abby, and Brent)
Zoe kicks us off from Zanzibar. Simon makes his first appearance on RR (pssst.....giraffes). Abby and Brent get us all caught up on the trip so far. This is another solid episode o…
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1 h 18
Roaming Roots Episode 7: Nepal! Greece! Tanzania! Three Countries and Three New Adventures (and Monkeys!)
Return to Africa! Our family shares their experiences in Nepal and Greece from the lobby of their guest house in Tanzania. Along the way, we hear about high mountain Nepalese treks…
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1 h 30
Roaming Roots Episode 6: Vietnam, Sleeper Train Cars, Searching for Statues, and the Mid-Trip (Expected) Lull
Our family finds itself in Vietnam and seeing that experience framed in the large geopolitical issues that have dominated SE Asia for centuries, and in the small, intimate ways tha…
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1 h 05
Roaming Roots Episode 5: Zoe & Cambodia (and Brent & Abby Thrown In For Good Measure)
As they continue their trip through Southeast Asia, our family makes their way from Thailand to Cambodia. Almost 10-year old Zoe leads off by sharing her experiences so far, follow…
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1 h 06
Roaming Roots Episode 5: Zoe & Cambodia (and Brent & Abby Thrown In For Good Measure)
As they continue their trip through Southeast Asia, our family makes their way from Thailand to Cambodia. Almost 10-year old Zoe leads off by sharing her experiences so far, follow…
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1 h 35
Roaming Roots Episode 4: A New Episode And A New Continent - Welcome to Southeast Asia
Moving on from Africa, our intrepid family finds itself in Thailand and all the sensory experience of Southeast Asia. Brent and Abby go deep on their trip so far, the necessary pla…
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1 h 23
Roaming Roots Episode 3: Welcome to Morocco - Making Friends, Christmas in Fez, And Zoe Makes Her First Visit…
Making the jump from Europe to Africa, Zoe (her 1st appearance on the show!), Abby and Brent walk us through their journey to Morocco, navigating a new land where everything is dif…
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1 h 10
Roaming Roots Episode 2: Portugal, Spain, Schist Villages, and Unplanned Adventures
Having made it overseas in one piece, Brent Freedland and Abby Perkiss, along with the kids, begin to explore Portugal, visit gorgeous towns, teach the host what a Schist Village i…
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1 h 04
Roaming Roots Episode 1: Abby and Brent On The Eve Of Their Family's Departure
Follow along as Abby Perkiss and Brent Freedland head out for a seven-month trip to parts (kinda) unknown. Episode 1 talks about the idea for the trip, the planning, the replanning…