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We love travel stories, especially from our listeners! Real tales where the smallest detail can trigger panic, wonder, or a laugh. We move from tracking lions by day to sharing water with penguins and a sea lion that swims up just to play, then jump to gorilla trekking where the rules for staying safe are simple and non negotiable. Along the way, we talk about a surprisingly effective strategy for better travel photos: hiring a local photographer to guide you off the beaten path.

We share a painful travel scam story that comes down to one habit most people skip. Then we get honest about language barriers, from nearly getting off at the wrong stop in Copenhagen to the reality that Americans often travel with fewer language skills than we should. Add in a Thai tone mistake and a hand gesture that means something totally different in Brazil, and the message is clear: cultural etiquette is part of travel safety.

The back half goes big with more adventure travel and cultural immersion, ending with a laugh-out-loud tale with a surprise ending.

If you love travel storytelling with practical takeaways, subscribe, and share this with a fellow traveler. And if you want to share YOUR story, contact Lea at any of the links in these show notes. We'll be sharing more of your stories on the months ahead.

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Our storytellers are course members at Osher Lifelong Learning Institute at Rochester Institute of Technology in Rochester, NY. More

Podcast host Lea Lane has traveled to over 120 countries, and has written nine books, including the award-winning Places I Remember (Kirkus Reviews star rating, and 'one of the top 100 Indie books of the year'). She has contributed to dozens of guidebooks and has written thousands of travel articles. Read her weekly essays on Substack.
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Our award-winning travel podcast, Places I Remember with Lea Lane, has produced over 130 travel episodes! New episodes drop on the first Tuesday of the month, on Apple, Spotify, and wherever you listen to podcasts. All episodes are also on the website: placesirememberlealane.com and appear on Lea's Substack, Lane Changes.
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