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**The Trip**

Join Roads & Kingdoms and host Nathan Thornburgh for this evolving travel podcast, currently mostly on hiatus. Archives include long boozy interviews around the world and Anthony Bourdain-led deep dives. Always, though, beats have been by Dan the Automator, artwork by Daisy Dee, show art by Edel Rodriguez. All advertising proceeds go to NYC’s Let Us Breathe Fund for which this show has raised thousands, even in hiatus. So thank you for listening.

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Episode 69, Tijuana: Ruffo Ibarra Mar 29, 2021

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Drinking mezcal old fashioneds with Ruffo Ibarra, a chef at the vanguard of Tijuana's remarkable reinvention.

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Oryx Capital, Ruffo’s flagship restaurant

Cengrow organic farm

Gustavo Arellano on the legend of the Donkey Show

San Diego Union-Tribune on refugees and chefs aid

Ruffo Ibarra IG account

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Episode 68, Tijuana: Edoardo Chavarín Mar 22, 2021

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Drinking cactus-laced "green juice" with iconic cross-border designer Edoardo Chavarín.

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Palate Club

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Edoardo Chavarín site

Edoardo Chavarín Instagram

Article about Chavarín’s coffee shop

Rodrigo Roji, tattoo artist and collaborator

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Episode 67, Montréal: Jodi Ettenberg Mar 15, 2021

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What happens when a celebrated travel writer finds herself suddenly, inextricably homebound? This is not a COVID story. Jodi Ettenberg's health struggles pre-date the pandemic, but her philosophical approach to frailty and flightlessness has lessons for us all.

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LegalNomads.com

12 Years of Legal Nomads post

Jodi Ettenberg’s Instagram

The story of her cerebrospinal fluid leak

Why We Get Jet Lag… and 5 Tips for Making it Less Painful

2012 Q&A with Jodi Ettenberg on Roads & Kingdoms

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Episode 66, Montréal: Tiffany Deer Mar 08, 2021

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Mohawk recipes, resistance and more good medicine with Tiffany Deer in Kahnawake, Quebec.

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Kahnawake Visitors Center

Skywalker exhibit at the 9/11 museum

Mohawk Girls trailer

Article about Beans, the movie that Tiffany Deer participated in

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Episode 65, Montréal: Johnny Zatylny Mar 01, 2021

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Drinking vodka soda and talking growing up Anglophone in Quebec with one of the world’s top Freddie Mercury cover singers

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Episode 64, Montréal: Nakuset Feb 22, 2021

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Drinking coffee with Nakuset and talking about her childhood as an native adoptee in the dark chapter of Canadian history called the Sixties Scoop.

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If you or someone you know is in distress, please reach out for help or just a conversation: National Suicide Prevention Lifeline

Stolen From Our Embrace, a book about the Sixties scoop, forced assimilation, and the indigenous children who survived it. By Suzanne J. Fournier and Ernie Crey

CBC mini-documentary Becoming Nakuset

Talkback session about the film with Nakuset and fellow Sixties Scoop survivor Daniel Milner

Christopher Curtis’ stories for the Montreal Gazette

Donate to the Native Women’s Shelter of Montreal

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Episode 63, Montréal: Patrick Lagacé Feb 15, 2021

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You want to figure out a place you really don't know? Bring a journalist some beer, and press record. Our first of five episodes in Montreal starts right there, with Patrick Lagacé.

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Le Quebec Maintenant show

Patrick Lagacé’s columns at La Presse

News report on police surveillance of Patrick Lagacé

Patrick Lagacé’s (doctored) Wikipedia page

Globe and Mail column by Patrick Lagacé

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Episode 62, Porto: Ana Aragão Feb 08, 2021

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Architect-turned-artist Ana Aragão is known for riffing on the skyline of her city or on the Tower of Babel or other astonishments of architecture, then infusing them with a bit of magical realism—earthquakes, apocalypses, worlds without gravity. In this episode of The Trip, she drinks port wine with host Nathan Thornburgh and talks about Porto and the power of imagining.

Ana Aragão Instagram

Real Editors Ship by Paul Ford

Ana Aragão at TEDxPorto

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Episode 61, Porto: Ansel Mullins Feb 01, 2021

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Drinking sugary island punch in Porto with a pioneer in food tourism, Culinary Backstreets' Ansel Mullins.

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Culinary Backstreets home page

News report of the Istanbul 2003 bombing

Culinary Backstreets Porto food tour

Paul Rimple on Giorgi Iosava

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Episode 60, Porto: Eduardo Leal Jan 25, 2021

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Photojournalist Eduardo Leal drinks vinho verde with host Nathan Thornburgh and talks tourism, gentrification, and those mounds of meat and cheese called Francesinha.

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Forcados “The Bull Wrestlers of Portugal” photoessay

Eduardo Leal stories on Roads & Kingdoms

Eduardo Leal website

Festival de Cinema de Aventura in Matosinhos

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