Metamo Travel
65 episodes - English - Latest episode: over 2 years ago -Pushing the Boundaries of Travel in Celebration of the Human Experience.
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Episode 10: Escaping Hotel California to Dance Kwasa Kwasa
February 02, 2021 13:00 - 16 minutes - 11.3 MBGreg 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 where he hears a knock on the door only to be surprised by a strange creature. Then, after sleeping on trucks, he makes his way to Zongo and enjoys the dancing, beer, and listening to kwasa kwasa. And then, the lights across the Ubangi River draw him in, but he needs to bribe his way to get there. Bu...
Episode 9: An exposé of music, light, healing, and travel with André Ripa (Part 2)
January 23, 2021 23:00 - 25 minutes - 17.4 MBThis 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 compelling technologies. Spirit Healing Arts is his platform for teaching, facilitating and co-creating expansive health and conscious growth. On this episode, we explore "Prayer for Humanity," André’s newest album recorded and released during the pandemic. Like this podcast? Leave us a five-st...
Episode 8: An exposé of music, light, healing, and travel with André Ripa
January 22, 2021 05:00 - 22 minutes - 15.7 MBAndré 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 powerful imagery with today’s most compelling technologies. Spirit Healing Arts is his platform for teaching, facilitating and co-creating expansive health and conscious growth. Learn about André’s powerful passion for his life’s work to bring music and light into the world! Like this podcast?...
Episode 8: An exposé of music, light, healing, and travel with André Ripa (Part 1)
January 22, 2021 05:00 - 22 minutes - 15.7 MBAndré 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 powerful imagery with today’s most compelling technologies. Spirit Healing Arts is his platform for teaching, facilitating and co-creating expansive health and conscious growth. Learn about André’s powerful passion for his life’s work to bring music and light into the world! Like this podcast?...
Episode 7: How to make friends with rogue militia in Zaire
January 14, 2021 23:00 - 13 minutes - 9.21 MBGreg 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 his shack inside a remote military outpost, to an encounter with a scalawag corporal and his minions on the banks of the Congo River and a strange request for safe passage, Greg shares his foray into no man's land. Like this podcast? Leave us a five-star review on Apple Podcasts! We really appr...
Episode 6: The Art of negotiating with a 350 pound gorilla who steals your jacket and what to do when a youthful gorilla sits on you and pees
January 08, 2021 19:00 - 20 minutes - 13.8 MBOn 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 endangered mountain gorillas. To get there and back they ride on trains, local buses, matatus, back of trucks and even motorcycles. Trekking up the sides of volcanoes in Virunga National Park, they encounter the gorillas and spend a story-filled magical hour with them. Finding their way back to civ...
Episode 6: The Art of negotiating with a 350 pound gorilla
January 08, 2021 19:00 - 20 minutes - 13.8 MBOn 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 endangered mountain gorillas. To get there and back they ride on trains, local buses, matatus, back of trucks and even motorcycles. Trekking up the sides of volcanoes in Virunga National Park, they encounter the gorillas and spend a story-filled magical hour with them. Finding their way back to civ...
Episode 5: Breaking out of the bubble with passion + PB &J - a conversation with Sam Richardson
December 31, 2020 02:00 - 18 minutes - 12.5 MBSam 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, studying in Ghana, or hiking or biking around his home in San Francisco, California and beyond, Sam believes in embracing life and living it to the fullest. After so many adventures around the world at such a young age, Sam has taken his love of life and adventure to start Sam's Adventure Snacks where...
Episode 5: Gorillas, Kilimanjaro, and breaking out of the bubble with passion + PB&J
December 31, 2020 02:00 - 18 minutes - 12.5 MBSam 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, studying in Ghana, or hiking or biking around his home in San Francisco, California and beyond, Sam believes in embracing life and living it to the fullest. After so many adventures around the world at such a young age, Sam has taken his love of life and adventure to start Sam's Adventure Snacks where...
Episode 5: Breaking out of the bubble with passion + PB&J -a visit with Sam Richardson
December 31, 2020 02:00 - 18 minutes - 12.5 MBSam 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, studying in Ghana, or hiking or biking around his home in San Francisco, California and beyond, Sam believes in embracing life and living it to the fullest. After so many adventures around the world at such a young age, Sam has taken his love of life and adventure to start Sam's Adventure Snacks where...
Episode 4: How to lose 50 lbs while canoeing across the Congo
December 24, 2020 00:00 - 22 minutes - 15.7 MBIn 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 way across the breath of Africa from the Indian Ocean to the Atlantic. Sleeping in villages deep in the Congo rainforest, losing 50 pounds, and has all kinds of adventures and misadventures along the way. This and plenty more on Metamo! Learn more about Metamo: https://metamo.travel/subscribe/ E...
Episode 3: From the Lion Center to the Epicenter: An interview with Abby Guthmann
December 17, 2020 23:00 - 33 minutes - 22.8 MBOn 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 the fascinating conservation work she does near the Maasai Mara in Kenya and the pivotal role the travel experience has played in her life studying ecosystems, behavior adaptation, and human-wildlife conflict mitigation. Abby hopes to contribute to the conservation of vulnerable populations in incr...
Episode 2: In the Name of Love: From California and Zambia to Nairobi with David & Ronah Saunders
December 10, 2020 23:00 - 21 minutes - 15 MBOn 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 since. They discuss the role travel plays in their life and how it’s help lead them to where they are. Learn more about their Outreach Project at rrop.org And be sure to follow Metamo at Metamo.Travel
Episode 1: From the Sierras to Safaris
December 03, 2020 17:00 - 19 minutes - 13.3 MBJoin 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 Traverso, founder of Metamo, shares the story about how he first started traveling the world, starting in his own home state of California. That and plenty more on Metamo. Want to explore Africa in 2021? Book your trip by Dec. 31 and get 25% off your journey and a free private upgrade. Learn m...
Trailer: Metamo, a podcast pushing the boundaries of travel
November 25, 2020 22:00 - 1 minute - 1.27 MBWelcome 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 20 years organizing African adventures from Kilimanjaro to the Serengeti to The Congo and beyond -- and Bob Spoerl, an avid traveler who runs a communications firm covering 15 different time zones share travel stories that range from the sublime to the ridiculous, and everything in between. I...