Mikael Staffas 🇸🇪 Exploring Cultures, History and NomadMania Regions.
Q: How did you become in love with travel?
A: I have always liked to see new things and I early on began to collect travel “items” on a low scale like regions in Sweden, Norway and Finland as well as towns and cities in Sweden. When I was 18 years old I looked at a world map that I think at that time had 173 countries. I had been to 10 countries at that time and figured that if I would visit four new countries every year I could get to visit all countries.
Read the full interview with Mikael here.
Barry Hoffner 🇺🇸 How a Flip-of-the-Coin Trip Changed the Life.
Q: Where do you come from and how did you start travelling in the first place?
A: I grew up with a very middle-class Southern California background despite me having some Middle Eastern culture in my bloodlines, as my mom was born in Baghdad and moved to the US when she was very young. I took a “flip-of-the-coin” backpacking trip to Europe when I was eighteen and that changed my life. As Steve Jobs said in his famous commencement speech at Stanford, “You can only connect the dots afterwards”.
Read the full interview with Barry here.
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