Metamo Travel
Pushing the Boundaries of Travel in Celebration of the Human Experience.
- Update frequency
- every 7 days
- Average duration
- 23 minutes
- Episodes
- 37
- Years Active
- 2020 - 2021
Episode 16: Transcontinental motorcycle adventures with Ryan Libhart Pereyda & Nathan Wirt: Part 2
Ryan Libhart Pereyda & Nathan Wirt push the boundaries of travel to the outermost limits. As they describe their wild adventures riding motorcycles from South America to California, across the US, Eu…
Episode 15: Transcontinental motorcycle adventures with Ryan Libhart Pereyda & Nathan Wirt: Part 1
Ryan Libhart Pereyda & Nathan Wirt push the boundaries of travel to the outermost limits. As they describe their wild adventures riding motorcycles from South America to California, across the US, Eu…
Episode 14: A cultural misstep in a 700 year-old town full of dhows, donkeys, and delightful people
When traveling off the beaten path it’s pretty easy to misread the most obvious. Sometimes we trip and fall down. Sometimes we just look foolish. And once in a while we learn something from it.
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Episode 13: A map on the back of an old napkin - a conversation with Joey Raspo, Danny Puccinelli, and Skid
Up in the hills of California's Coastal Range late at night in 1984, Joey Raspo and Skid draw out a plan on the back of an old napkin to travel to Egypt and climb to the top of the pyramids. Danny Pu…
Episode 12: The ride from hell, a red apple, and clean white sheets
In this episode, we pick up where we left off last week. Greg is 1,000 miles from the coast to complete his journey across the continent of Africa. His last ride ends up being perhaps the worst one y…
Episode 11: Welcome to Bangui: A bribe, a screwdriver and a crazy Emperor
We pick up where we left off on Greg’s epic journey across the continent of Africa. On this week’s episode, Greg discusses his time in the Central African Republic. He makes his way from Zongo to Ban…
Episode 10: Escaping Hotel California to Dance Kwasa Kwasa
Greg continues sharing his stories from his epic adventure across Africa. On this episode, he’s just left Bumba after recovering from malaria. He stays at a Hotel Californiaesque place in Lisala wher…
Episode 9: An exposé of music, light, healing, and travel with André Ripa (Part 2)
This is the second part of our back-to-back episodes with André Ripa. You can learn more about his transformative work at Spirit Musique, where he merges music and powerful imagery with today’s most …
Episode 8: An exposé of music, light, healing, and travel with André Ripa (Part 1)
André Ripa is our guest on back-to-back episodes. His work with Spirit Musique promotes human transformation through the creation of immersive entertainment experiences that merge uplifting music and…
Episode 7: How to make friends with rogue militia in Zaire
Greg Traverso vividly describes his encounters with the military in Zaire. From an intense moment out of nowhere when machine guns are drawn, to a little bent nail serving as the lock on the door of…
Episode 6: The Art of negotiating with a 350 pound gorilla
On this week's episode, Greg shares the story of how he and his wife Susan traveled together on their epic overland adventure from Kenya to Zaire through all kinds of hurdles and hoops to see the end…
Episode 5: Breaking out of the bubble with passion + PB &J - a conversation with Sam Richardson
Sam Richardson wakes up excited about life everyday with a sense of adventure and wonder. Whether it's climbing Kilimanjaro or up the side of a volcano in search of Mountain Gorillas in Rwanda, study…
Episode 4: How to lose 50 lbs while canoeing across the Congo
In this episode, Bob Spoerl interviews his co-host Greg Traverso about Greg’s epic expedition across the continent of Africa. Hitchhiking, traveling by matatu, boat, foot, and canoe, Greg makes his w…
Episode 3: From the Lion Center to the Epicenter: An interview with Abby Guthmann
On this week's episode, Greg and Bob are joined by Abby Guthmann. Abby is a Ph D. student at the University of Minnesota and a member of the Lion Center Team under Dr. Craig Parker. Abby discusses th…
Episode 2: In the Name of Love: From California and Zambia to Nairobi with David & Ronah Saunders
On this week’s episode, Greg and Bob are joined by David and Ronah Saunders who lead the Red Rhino Outreach Project in Kenya. The two met in Kenya and have been a transformational travel duo ever sin…
Episode 1: From the Sierras to Safaris
Join us for the very first installment of Metamo, a podcast about adventure and transformational travel. Metamo provides modern explorers with a more fulfilling way to travel. In this episode, Greg T…
Trailer: Metamo, a podcast pushing the boundaries of travel
Welcome to Metamo, a podcast where we explore with you and our guests travel topics that push the boundaries in celebration of the human experience.
Co-hosts Greg Traverso -- who has spent more than …