Around the World with Dan Perry
This podcast is about travel. I'll interview interesting characters to get their stories, learn how they travel, discover what motivates them. Hopefully in the process, I'll motivate you as well. You're going to learn that there's no right or wrong way to travel. You can do whatever you want on your trip, so what's stopping you?
- Update frequency
- every 5 days
- Average duration
- 76 minutes
- Episodes
- 83
- Years Active
- 2017 - 2019
#43: Talking North Korea with Jeremiah Jenne
Tensions have been rising on the Korean peninsula. What are our options?
My guest Jeremiah Jenne is a historian living in Beijing. He has been to North Korea multiple times, including just a few week…
#42: Gigi Wong
My guest today is Gigi Wong. Originally from Hong Kong, she currently lives in New York, where she works with first-tier Chinese real estate developers. We spent most of our time talking about a trip…
#41: MCK
My guest MCK runs a program called Bounce. Basically, it's a twenty-minute conversation in which he listens to you and asks you the right questions to work through whatever's on your mind. He and I d…
#40: Matthew Clausen
Matthew Clausen and I recorded this podcast on a dark and breezy night, while sitting atop the Great Wall of China. We had just finished a long day of trekking on the wall, starting at the popular re…
#39: Tamara Gil
My guest today is Tamara Gil, a multimedia journalist based in Beijing, China. Tamara and I had a long and interesting conversation, during which we covered quite a large number of topics. There's a …
#38: Sean Kelly
My guest today is Sean Kelly. He's an art teacher in Beijing, China. He has also lived in Shanghai and Costa Rica. We talked about life here, living on campus, travel and a few interesting movies tha…
#37: Moisés Santiago
My guest today is Moisés Santiago. We touched on a variety of topics, including being a teacher in China, spaying your cat (not for the faint of heart), staying calm in stressful situations, and the…
#36: Mirco Tranchina
Mirco Tranchina has lived in China for several years. Since coming here, he has become fluent in Chinese, and he is now on a TV show. He also has a full-time job, and he's finishing his master's degr…
#35: Erin Draycott and Connor Grill
My guests today are Erin Draycott and Connor Grill. They have both been living in Beijing for several years. I sat with Erin and Connor on the roof of their hutong apartment for a conversation about …
#34: Li Song Mei
My guest today is Li Song Mei. I met her through Arthur, her former teacher, who was on episodes 30 and 31 of the podcast. Li Song Mei is from a small village in Guizhou Province, China. She's curren…
#33: Morgan McKinnon
My guest today is Morgan McKinnon. She has been living in Beijing for over four years. We talked a lot about expectations versus reality in moving to China, and some of the great and not-so-great asp…
#32: What do you call armor that doesn't work?
In this episode of the podcast, I talk about my bicycle trip with Katie through Yunnan Province in China. We bought folding bikes for the Chinese New Year, loaded them with gear and took off for a tw…
#31: Arthur and Xiao Ni
This is my continued discussion with Arthur and Xiao Ni. Xiao Ni continued to impress me with her stories. Unfortunately, as she sojourned through Turkey and Lebanon, she was plagued by misfortune a…
#30: Arthur and Xiao Ni
My guests for the next two podcasts are Arthur and Xiao Ni. After a long career in Seattle, Arthur came to China to volunteer with the Peace Corps. Nowadays, he spends large portions of his time volu…
#29: Rimvydas Markevicius
My guest for this episode is Rimvydas Markevicius from Lithuania. We had a great time discussing his country, my country, and China, where we both currently live. We also got a bit philosophical at t…
#28: Fei Fei Huo
My guest for this episode is Fei Fei Huo (霍婉菲). She grew up in Chengdu, China and has traveled to many parts of Europe. We recorded this podcast while sitting by the river in Shaxi, China at the end …
#27: Carol Woo
My guest for this episode is Carol Woo (胡宝娟). She grew up in both Guangdong province (China) and Hong Kong. She's quite artistic – she organizes theater performances for international audiences. For …
#26: Kathy McGowan
My guest today is Kathy McGowan. When I met her, she had just finished a three-year stint of living in a “small” city in China (population 3 million), and was relaxing in Shaxi for a few days before …
#25: Coffeecast
We have a different format for this episode of the podcast. I was sitting in the market square of Shaxi China, drinking coffee and having a chit-chat with four new friends. We decided to record our c…
#24: Liam DelMain
My guest for this episode is Liam DelMain. I met Liam at the Horse Pen 46 Hostel in Shaxi (沙溪), Yunnan Province, China. He calls Minnesota home, though when he was still a toddler, he lived in Beijin…