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Podcast: Zero To Travel Podcast
Episode: Unplugged Travel: Practical and Mindset Advice to Reinvent How You Discover a Destination with Lisa Abend
Description: What would exploring a new city without relying on technology be like?Lisa Abend is a journalist who regularly contributes to AFAR, the New York Times travel section, and National Geographic Traveler, among others. In response to the collapse of many traditional media outlets for narrative travel writing and how social media has sucked the serendipity and sense of discovery out of travel, she launched a Substack called The Unplugged Traveler. For the newsletter, she travels to a new European city every month without using the internet—that means no Google research, no online reservations, no GPS ma...