You Have Permission to Bring Your Travel Memories Back to Life, with Melissa Rodway

The MultiPod is also on video! You can watch today's episode on YouTube here.

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If you love to reminisce about your travels, or if you're like me and kind of hesitant to do so - a little wary of living too much in the past - my guest this week will unlock that permission and take you right back to your memories.

Melissa Rodway is the author of The People You Meet: Luxury, Leeches, Love, and Lao-Lao with a Host of Interesting Characters in Southeast Asia, her memoir about a four month (largely) backpacking trip back in 2010. The trip was in fact a combination of mostly doing the backpacker circuit, but interspersed from time to time with free stays at luxury hotels and resorts, as her partner at the time was on a research trip to scope out potential clients for his travel company. 

Thus the stories are a mixture of roughing it with spiders and squat toilets before ending up the next day at a private island, boat access-only, 5-star resort.

What I found really inspiring though is the feeling that it's not too late to reminisce, to share stories from past travels and to revisit a point in time in your life. For so long, I've felt like I missed the boat, it was too late, and no one would care about travel stories that were almost 15 years ago and likely grossly out of date.

But think about the last time you read a memoir, autobiography or certainly a travel journal that may have been written by someone decades ago, or about a point in time long in the past. If the storytelling is vivid and engaging, and especially if you have your own connection to the subject (such as the people, the places, the themes involved), it still has value. 

Multipotentialites tend to struggle with this, but take it from Melissa, a fellow multipod and someone who herself debated revisiting the past: it's not too late, it's worth it and you have permission!

Discover The People You Meet: Luxury, Leeches, Love, and Lao-Lao with a Host of Interesting Characters in Southeast Asia and grab a copy here!

flyrodway.com/my-travel-stories


How to Contact Melissa:

Website: flyrodway.com
Podcast: The Fly Travel Radio Podcast
Contact: flytravelmedia [at] gmail.com
Instagram:@fly_travel_media
YouTube: @flytravelradio2048


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