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e-travels with e. trules
Do you like to travel? Do you like to listen to travel tales from well off the beaten path? "e-travels with e.trules" is a new, personal, idiosyncratic, and literary podcast created by Eric Trules. A longtime Huffington Post blogger and theater Professor at USC in Los Angeles, Trules has traveled ou...
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Grazing With Camels - Episode 1
Trules travels across the Israeli-Egyptian border in 1999 to the Sinai Desert, where he takes a 3-day overnight "camel safari" with Bedouin guides int...


ET042 - Bonus Episode -Trules Guests on Podcast Junkies
Today’s Bonus interview on “Podcast Junkies” is called: “Rebelling Against Conformity and Finding Freedom Through the Arts”, and in it, Harry Duran a...

ET041 - Behind the Scenes with Travel Writer, Linda Ballou
My guest, Linda Ballou, is an accomplished travel and adventure writer - about whom world-wide explorer, Jim Dorsey, says: "Ballou takes the reader ou...

ET040 - The Ghosts of Edinburgh, Scotland
Today we’ll be time traveling again - a long ways back… to 1988, when I ventured to Edinburgh, Scotland to perform for the first time in the Edinburgh...

ET039 - Behind the Scenes with Travel Wisdom Podcast Host, Ladan Jiracek
Ladan Jiracek, host of the Travel Wisdom Podcast, is my Behind the Scenes guest today because… I just love the question that his podcast poses: “Can t...

ET038 - The Seedy & Glamorous Hotel Woodward, NYC Back in the Day
New York City — 1977 — “back in the day” — when Studio 54 was all the rage and the new TKTS half-price tickets booth on 47th Street and Broadway was s...

ET037 - Behind the Scenes with Travel Hacker, Jen Ruiz
Jen Ruiz is the author of “The Affordable Flight Guide”, has been featured in the Washington Post and on ABC news, and she documents her travel-hackin...

ET036 - Susan, Tim, and Me - Hollywood Comes to Bali
Today I find myself at a cremation ceremony in Ubud, Indonesia, the cultural capital of the magical island of Bali. Thousands of locals and tourists a...

ET035 - Behind the Scenes with Reggae Aficionado, Roger Steffens
Roger Steffens is a reggae expert and collector extraordinaire. Also a poet, photographer, raconteur, and personal friend of Bob Marley. Which means…...

ET034 - Moon Over Chefchaouen Part 2
If you remember, I last left you at the end of Part 1 getting off a hot, crowded bus which took me from Tetouen, Morocco to… Chechaouen, Morocco. It t...

ET033 - Behind the Scenes with Ethno-Musicologist, Chuck Jonkey
Chuck Jonkey is an adventurer, composer, and musician who transforms his off the beaten track travel experiences into sound, music and film. Chuck’s e...

ET032 - Moon Over Chefchaouen
This adventure — is about my trip to Morocco, after I finish my travels in Andalucia. I take a boat from the southeastern tip of Spain’s port, Algecir...

ET031-Behind the Scenes with Adventurer Jim Dorsey
Greetings from the Outback, Maties! Today I’ll be talking with James Michael Dorsey, explorer, photographer, lecturer, and award-winning author, who h...

ET030 - Me-hee-co
It was a crazy idea. Loco. No, a good one. Bueno. Driving thousands of miles in my white Toyota Celica, which stood out like an automotive sore thumb…...

ET029 - Behind the Scenes with Kate Erickson from EoFire
Kate Erickson emanates all the sunshine and positivity of Southern California. She is passionate about helping entrepreneurs create freedom in their b...

ET028 - Welcome Back to Deadwood, Part 2
We’re back in Deadwood, South Dakota…. where you last left me in Episode 26…. in jail. It’s September, 1970 and I’ve been arrested for reckless drivin...

ET027 - Behind the Scenes with Mike Siegel from the Travel Tales Podcast
Mike Siegel is a professional stand-up comedian, fellow travel podcaster, and TV host based in Los Angeles, California. Plus… he’s an overall good guy...

ET026 - The Wild West of Deadwood, South Dakota
I was doing one of the most patriotic things I’ve ever done in my life – going to Mt. Rushmore - to see George, Tom, Abe, and Teddy… whose Presidentia...

ET025 - Behind the Scenes with Shannon Moore Martin from Podbean
“I’ve always wanted to be an ‘ex-pat’, an American living outside of the United States. Never more so than in this tenuous time of Trump!” So at Podca...

ET024 - Welcome Season 2 with A Cock Tale From Borneo
This season, I’d like to start thinking about travel in a new way.Time and place, Maties. Because I think there’s something profound and universal abo...

ET023 - Bonus - Trules Guests on the Creative Studio Podcast
Ho! Ho! Ho! And Happy New Year! Having just passed the 1 YEAR ANNIVERSAY of my podcast, I am announcing GOOD NEWS — the release of “e-travels with e....

ET022 - Bonus Episode, Trules Guests on Podcasts We Listen To
It's the 1 Year Anniversary of the Podcast, so today to celebrate and to tickle your travel podcast fancy, I'm releasing a BONUS episode, my guest int...

ET021 - Bonus Episode, Trules Guests on the "Travel Tales Podcast"
Mike Siegel, Comedian and Host of the Travel Tales Podcast: “What do you think travel has taught you about yourself, people in general, and about Amer...

ET020 – Bonus Episode – Trules on the “Travel Stories Podcast”
In between Seasons 1 & 2, the podcast offers a BONUS EPISODE of Trules' guest interview on the "Travel Stories Podcast", with host, Hayden Lee.
...

ET019 - End of Season 1 - with a "Tear"
Here it is... one of kind.... a travel story not about... me! Along with excerpts from Season 1, and final travelogue.
"Tear" is about a 15 year...

ET018 - Behind the Scenes with Debra Ehrhardt from Jamaica
These words from my guest in this Episode, Debra Ehrhardt, solo performer and native of Jamaica:
"Your saying 'no' to me is just a way of my say...

ET017 - The Mighty Mekong
This episode finds Trules chugging up the Mighty Mekong River, on a flat-top, tin-roof, diesel-puffing dinosaur, from northern Thailand to southern La...

ET016 - Behind the Scenes with Actor-Musician, Morlan Higgins
Trules speaks with one of Los Angeles' true musical and theatrical treasures, Morlan Higgins. Be serenaded with Morlan's mandolin, learn about his act...

ET015 - Amsterdam, the "Perfect City"
Amsterdam, Christmas 2013
As ex-heavyweight champ, Sonny Liston, always said,
"Life... a funny thang".
It comes and goes -- in cycl...

ET014 - Behind the Scenes with Liz Femi from Nigeria
In this lively episode, Trules talks with Liz Femi, a fellow solo performer and storyteller, who was born in the United Kingdom and grew up in Nigeria...

ET013 - The Gentrification of Mi Barrio, Echo Park
Echo Park, the one time immigrant-socialist-artist neighborhood of Los Angeles, has undergone the sad and inevitable process of "gentrification". Trul...

ET012 - Behind The Scenes with Israeli Diplomat, Raphael Morav
Trules speaks with long-time friend and Israeli diplomat, Raphael Morav, who he has visited in Rome, Jerusalem, Helsinki, and Paris. Hear them chat ab...

ET011 - The Iron Horse and the Borneo Bucket Brigade
In December, 2001, just months after 9/11, Trules arrives in Kota Kinabalu on the island of Borneo in East Malaysia. Teaching at an all-Islamic univer...

ET010 - Behind the Scenes with Chris Christensen, the Amateur Traveler
Trules talks with long-time travel blogger and podcaster, Chris Christensen, "The Amateur Traveler"... whose cool rules of the road include: 1- "Never...

ET009 - Nine Lives & Balinese Good Karma
Trules arrives at the international airport in Denpasar on the magical island of Bali - to meet his Indonesian wife - but she is not there. She is, in...

ET008 - Behind the Scenes with Jonathan Munoz-Proulx
My guest this week is Jonathan Munoz-Proulx, otherwise know as “JMP”, my former student and now independent theater artist, who first gave me the idea...

ET007 - Why Travel?
Beijing, China, 2007 It's a year before the Beijing Olympics and there are crowds and pollution everywhere. I've been invited to teach the LDTX Bejing...

EET006 - Behind the Scenes with Hayden Lee of the "Travel Stories Podcast"
My guest this episode is Hayden Lee, the self-professed son of a hippie and a biker, and the host of the popular, Travel Stories Podcast. Born in rura...

ET005 - Love and the Devil's Nose
Alausi, Ecuador. 2003. I married for the first time at age 55. Also in 2003. I married an Indonesian girl from Sumatra who I met in Bali, who was 31 y...