Introducing Traveling Through
5/28/20261 min
In Traveling Through, David Prior—travel writer and founder of experiential travel company Prior—sits down with friends and culture-makers like Jenna Lyons, David Remnick, Deborah Needleman, Athena Calderone, and more to trace the trips, objects, and encounters that shaped who they are. Because the most interesting stories aren't about where you went. They're about what stayed with you. New episodes every other Thursday. Find it on Youtube, Apple, Spotify, or wherever you get your podcasts.
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18 sentencesDavid Prior· Host0:00
Where have you felt most at home?
Speaker 1· Soundbite0:01
Oh, right here with you.
David Prior· Host0:02
[laughs] [laughs] I'm David Prior. I'm a travel writer. I tell stories from around the world and then bring them to life with my travel company, Prior. But for as much as I'm inspired by places from Italy to India, China to Peru, I'm most curious about people and how their travel shape them.
Speaker 2· Soundbite0:19
Anything that I become enamored by and really fascinated by, I think of, like, how can I learn?
Speaker 3· Soundbite0:23
After the Indian Ocean tsunami, I say that it taught me a lot about hospitality because the Sri Lankans were so concerned with the expats that were there.
David Prior· Host0:32
I have a theory that, you know, these stories that we take from travel are very often the ones that become the stories of our lives.
Speaker 1· Soundbite0:41
She made this mushroom and goat cheese tart. It was like sex. It was the best thing I'd ever had in my life.
David Prior· Host0:46
With some of these fascinating people, you do realize once they start to talk about travel, that it's so core to their identity.
Speaker 4· Soundbite0:52
I got on a People's Express flight to Paris, and every morning played in the Metro, was a busker.
David Prior· Host1:00
And these curious people because of their curiosity have made culture.
Speaker 5· Soundbite1:04
My lack of formal education has just made me, like, ripe for curiosity.
David Prior· Host1:09
My goal in all of these conversations is not just to, like, have a banter about travel, it's to try to get to that kind of essence of who they are, how they've been shaped by travel, how they're traveling through life. This is Traveling Through, new episodes every other Thursday from Pushkin Industries.