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I've been making the wrong show. For five years, I told you how to travel like a local instead of a tourist: where to eat, how to skip the tourist zones. All true, and none of it explained why you came home a slightly different person than the one who left.

This episode is why Put the Guidebook Down is becoming Modern Travel Psychology: essays that use travel as evidence, not the subject, for what's happening to memory, identity, and who we become somewhere nobody knows our name.

Chapters:0:00 — Making the wrong show1:30 — The gap between what to do and what travel does to you3:45 — What Moldova and Indonesia taught me that no guidebook could5:20 — The new Put the Guidebook Down structure7:40 — A Reflection

Put the Guidebook Down · hosted by Kiara Kolaczyk

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