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Finding Gina Marie - Travel the World

Judy and Kevin Hoctor

211 episodes

Our podcast is about being digital nomads, discovering family, and making connection with people around the world. Watch us on YouTube: https://youtube.com/FindingGinaMarie.

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  1. 9 Affordable Cities Worth Staying a Month

    · 14 min · S1 E216

    Ep.216 After nearly four years of full-time travel and staying in more than 90 places, we’ve learned that affordable doesn’t mean much if you don’t actually want to stay. In this episode, we’re sharing 9 affordable…

  2. How to Travel Together Without One Person Doing Everything

    · 20 min · S1 E215

    Ep.215 Traveling together for a week or two is one thing. But when you travel for months at a time, someone still has to manage the planning, transportation, money, meals, laundry—and all the responsibilities of…

  3. Cape Town’s Beauty Has a Complicated History

    · 17 min · S1 E213

    Ep.213 Cape Town’s beauty sits alongside a deeply moving and complex history. Join us as we take the ferry from the V&A Waterfront to Robben Island, where Nelson Mandela was imprisoned for 18 years. While there, two…

  4. Cape Town Beats Your Expectations

    · 17 min · S1 E212

    Ep.212 Cape Town is famous for Table Mountain, ocean views, and a spectacular coastline, but in this episode we show what else you can expect. We followed the Cape Peninsula through soaring cliffs, wild landscapes,…

  5. What Tallinn Reveals When You Go Beyond Old Town

    · 17 min · S1 E211

    Ep.211 Old Town is the Tallinn everyone photographs. Its pastel rooftops, cobblestone lanes, and spires poking into the sky are only part of the story. We share its neighborhoods, what it’s like to celebrate with its…

  6. After 4 Years, I’m Italian. But We’re Still Not Done

    · 25 min · S1 E209

    Ep.209 After four years of hard work, Judy was finally recognized as an Italian citizen, but Italian citizenship doesn’t mean quite what we thought it meant. We captured the real moment the email arrived, and in this…

  7. Why Waiting to Retire Costs More Than Money

    · 11 min · S1 E208

    Ep.208 Waiting to retire can feel responsible, but it can cost more than you think, and not all of it shows up in your finances. In this episode we talk about why “one more year” can become a trap, what it can cost…

  8. Riga: Prague-Level Beauty Without the Crowds

    · 18 min · S1 E207 · Explicit

    Ep.207 Riga is one of the European cities people are just starting to discover. It has Prague-level beauty, fewer crowds, and more depth than we expected. After 17 days in Riga, Latvia, we found a Baltic capital that…

  9. Ljubljana Is Not the City You Think It Is

    · 17 min · S1 E206

    Ep.206 Ljubljana, Slovenia is not the city we thought it was — and that’s exactly why this trip surprised us. In this episode, we explore its pedestrian and bike friendly historic center, the dragons, the coffee…

  10. What Americans Get Wrong About Healthcare Abroad

    · 22 min · S1 E205

    Ep.205 The health insurance question stops more people from leaving the US than almost anything else. This video shows exactly what international health insurance costs, what it covers, what happened when we actually…

  11. Before You Give Up Your Home to Travel, Watch This

    · 19 min · S1 E204

    Ep.204 What if you give up your home to travel full time and regret it? What if you do, and you're priced out of the market when you want to come back? We've been living without a home base for 3.5 years and more than…

  12. Why Normal Life Became the Riskier Financial Choice

    · 14 min · S1 E203

    Ep.203 Most people assume the conventional version of life is the financially responsible one. We assumed that too. For over 30 years. Then we put two expense stacks side by side. And what we found made us question…

  13. Trieste: Not the Italy You're Expecting

    · 21 min · S1 E202

    Ep.202 We ordered goulash in Italy. That's when we knew Trieste was different. 25 days in one of Europe's most overlooked cities — a place that has been claimed by empires, contested by nations, and shaped by cultures…

  14. What 16 Days in Penang Revealed That 4 Days Can't

    · 20 min · S1 E201

    Ep.201 We thought 16 days in George Town, Penang would be plenty. It wasn't. Most people come for the street art and food, and those are genuinely worth it. But the longer we stayed, the more Penang started to reveal…

  15. Is Singapore Actually Worth It?

    · 18 min · S1 E200

    Ep.200 Singapore has a reputation. Too expensive. Too controlled. Only worth a layover. We decided to test that for ourselves, so we stayed nine days in Singapore to see what it’s really like beyond the skyline and…

  16. Budapest Hides Things. We Spent 17 Days Finding Them.

    · 20 min · S1 E199

    Ep.199 We'd heard Budapest was special. We wanted to see for ourselves. What we found was one of the most layered, surprising, and thought-provoking cities we've ever visited. After 17 days living a short walk from the…

  17. 16 Days in Bangkok. What We’d Do Differently

    · 25 min · S1 E198

    Ep.198 We spent 16 days in Bangkok, Thailand, and we're sharing everything we'd do differently, including why where you stay matters more than you think, how to navigate Bangkok's historic temples without the crowds…

  18. Mekong Slow Boat: Laos to Thailand…Was It Worth It?

    · 19 min · S1 E197

    Ep.197 We took the Shompoo Cruise upstream from Luang Prabang, Laos to Houay Xay at the Thai border, and we're giving you our honest verdict. Was it worth two days offline? We cover everything: the Pak Ou Caves, our…

  19. We Don’t Revisit Cities. This One Changed That.

    · 19 min · S1 E196

    Ep.196 In three and a half years of full-time travel, we don’t go back to the same cities. We move forward. Until we visited Laos and Luang Prabang made us question that. This is the story of a place that stayed with…

  20. Queenstown at Its Busiest? Here’s the Truth

    · 19 min · S1 E195

    Ep.195 Queenstown, New Zealand is famous for adrenaline, epic scenery, and bucket list experiences. We arrived during peak summer season and made some choices that surprised even us. We found a slower, more meaningful…

  21. How We Decide What’s Actually Worth It When We Travel

    · 11 min · S1 E193

    Ep.193 Every 'yes' in travel is actually a 'no' to something else. Some tradeoffs look simple, but after years of full-time travel, we’ve learned that the most famous experiences aren't always the right ones. In this…

  22. I’ve been wrong for 63 years

    · 19 min · S1 E192

    Ep.192 They say you can't teach an old dog new tricks. After 63 years, Kevin was convinced that was true. Then we went to Nelson, New Zealand. We didn't go for the epic views or the famous peaks. We went to see what it…

  23. Is Rotorua, New Zealand Just a Stop for Hobbiton?

    · 23 min · S1 E191

    Ep.191 Most travelers treat Rotorua as a quick stop on the way to Hobbiton, but is that a mistake? We slowed down to experience the geothermal landscapes, Māori culture, and the town’s deeper history as the birthplace…

  24. Why Auckland Deserves More Than a Stopover

    · 24 min · S1 E190

    Ep.190 Most travelers rush through Auckland, but we discovered there’s far more here than meets the eye. During our nine days in the city, we found wild coastlines, meaningful cultural experiences, and small everyday…

  25. Why We Changed Our 2026 Travel Plans

    · 19 min · S1 E189

    Ep.189 When we started planning 2026, everything worked on paper. But the more we looked at it, the more we realized we were about to travel in a way that didn’t feel like us anymore. In this video, we share WHY we…

  26. Why Travel Makes It So Hard to Stay Healthy

    · 18 min · S1 E188

    Ep.188 Travel changed more for us than we expected, and it wasn’t the planning, packing, or logistics. In this episode, we respond to a simple viewer question that made us stop and take a hard look at how travel has…

  27. We Almost Skipped Tasmania… BIG Mistake

    · 20 min · S1 E187 · Explicit

    Ep.187 Tasmania wasn’t originally part of our Australia plan. It’s an island off the mainland, and honestly, we just didn’t know much about it going in. But once we started learning about its history—especially Port…

  28. We were halfway around the world when we got the news

    · 12 min · S1 E186

    Ep.186 Some decisions don’t come with a right answer. This week’s episode is a conversation about how people make hard decisions when every option carries a cost. It’s something that comes up in long-term travel, but…

  29. Why Melbourne Feels Different Than Sydney

    · 21 min · S1 E185

    Ep.185 Melbourne surprised us in ways we didn’t expect. It wasn’t through landmarks or highlights, but through how the city actually works and feels. In this video, we share what stood out most, the moments that…

  30. 45,000 Miles Later This Is What Stays With You

    · 9:33 · S1 E183

    Ep.183 This year took us across 45,000 miles, and only later did we realize the memories that stayed weren’t the ones we expected. In this video, we’re unpacking the five patterns that made moments forgettable versus…

  31. We Thought It Was Just a Trip… We Were Wrong

    · 10 min · S1 E182

    Ep. 182 What began as a simple test in Italy turned into a shift we didn’t understand until years later. Three years into full-time travel, we can finally see what that moment set in motion. In this video, we revisit…

  32. Asia Felt Intimidating… Until We Learned This

    · 22 min · S1 E181

    Ep.181 Asia can feel like a big leap when you’re used to traveling in Europe or North America. We spent seven months moving through Japan, Vietnam, Cambodia, Thailand, Taiwan, and South Korea. In this video, we share…

  33. Berlin Didn’t Feel Like We Thought It Would

    · 27 min · S1 E180

    Ep.180 Berlin had a very different feel than we expected in ways that were hard to predict. In this episode, we try to capture what it was actually like to spend ten days here: the atmosphere, the everyday moments, the…

  34. We Thought We Knew Europe—Until We Visited the Balkans

    · 22 min · S1 E179

    Ep.179 Most people never picture this part of Europe. Once hidden behind the Iron Curtain and shaped by the breakup of Yugoslavia, these five countries—Croatia, Montenegro, Serbia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, and…

  35. Inside the Spectacular Walled City of Dubrovnik | Croatia

    · 27 min · S1 E178

    Ep.178 We’d dreamed of Dubrovnik for decades—and it was every bit as beautiful as we hoped. But our time here didn’t go as planned. Between the hills, the heat, and getting sick along the way, this city asked more of…

  36. It looked better online

    · 21 min · S1 E177

    Ep.177 Not every “cozy, light-filled apartment” looks quite like its listing. In this episode, we share the stays that went sideways—and what we do when reality doesn’t match the photos. This isn’t about blaming hosts…

  37. The Side of Travel No One Shows You

    · 15 min · S1 E176

    Ep.176 Sometimes travel doesn’t go the way you plan…and not for the reasons you expect. We finally made it to one of Europe’s most beautiful cities, a place I’ve dreamed of seeing for years, and let’s just say, the…

  38. Think You Know Europe? Go Here

    · 18 min · S1 E175

    Ep.175 What if the Europe you thought you knew was only half the story? In Sarajevo, where Ottoman streets meet Austro-Hungarian boulevards, East and West live side by side, and resilience shows up in art, food, and…

  39. The Hardest Part of Travel (And How We Make It Easier)

    · 10 min · S1 E174

    Ep.174 One of the hardest parts of travel isn’t what you think. No matter how much time, money, or energy you have, it never feels like enough — and the choices can be overwhelming before the trip even begins. In this…

  40. The Most Beautiful Town in Bosnia You’ve Never Heard Of

    · 21 min · S1 E173

    Ep.173 Mostar, in Herzegovina, is often called Bosnia’s most beautiful city. It looks like a postcard, but the layers run deeper. It’s often a day trip, but we decided to stay a week. There was so much we had to…

  41. Everyone Rushes Through Kotor… But Staying Changed Everything

    · 24 min · S1 E172

    Ep.172 Most people rush through Kotor, Montenegro — but we stayed three weeks. What we found in Kotor and Dobrota went far beyond sightseeing: neighbors, daily rhythms, and a side of this place cruise passengers never…

  42. We Thought We’d Lose Friends. Instead, We Found More

    · 12 min · S1 E171

    Ep.171 The biggest fear we hear about long-term or extended travel is missing family and friends. We thought that might be true for us, too, until the opposite happened. This episode is about the connections we never…

  43. The Most Famous Mountain in Armenia Isn’t Even There

    · 18 min · S1 E170

    Ep.170 What happens when a country’s most famous symbol isn’t even within its borders? We spent two weeks in Yerevan, Armenia chasing Mount Ararat, the country’s national symbol and the mountain tied to Noah’s Ark.…

  44. We traveled 1000 days straight. These are our top 10 lessons

    · 17 min · S1 E169

    Ep.169 After 1000 days in a row on the road, we stopped chasing a checklist and started listening for the story each place wants to show us. In this episode, we share the ten small rules that changed how we…

  45. Travel Burnout? Vacations are the Problem

    · 14 min · S1 E168

    Ep.168 Vacations are supposed to recharge you, so why do so many leave us exhausted? In this episode, we dive into travel burnout—why traditional vacations often lead to vacation fatigue—and share simple slow travel…

  46. Our Retirement, Our Rules

    · 20 min · S1 E167

    Ep.167 What if retirement wasn’t something you waited for, but something you shaped for yourself? In this episode, we talk about what really changed when we stopped asking for permission—from retiring without a perfect…

  47. We Struggled to Love Tbilisi… Until This Moment

    · 24 min · S1 E166

    Ep.166 In this video, we explore Tbilisi not just as travelers but as curious observers trying to understand a country still fighting for its identity. From bold street art near a former Soviet sewing factory to…

  48. The Italy No One Talks About (and Why We Stayed a Month)

    · 18 min · S1 E165

    Ep.165 Cagliari probably isn’t on your bucket list, but maybe it should be. We came to Sardinia to sightsee… but also to slow down. During our a month in Cagliari, we fell for more than the historic towers and ancient…

  49. How Prague Captivated Us

    · 23 min · S1 E164

    Ep.164 Think you know Prague? We share both iconic spots and places you might never have seen. Along the way, we tell some stories you might not have known. From surprising meals and quirky art to emotional moments, we…

  50. How Travel Changed the Way We Communicate as a Couple

    · 19 min

    Ep.163 We thought we knew how to communicate. But full-time travel? It rewrote the rulebook. And not because of big fights, but because of all the little things. After 40+ years together, we didn’t expect moods,…

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