Tim Wenger is a Senior Editor at Matador Network. He joins Will to discuss his transition from playing in a punk band to travel writing, how much it would suck to be a political reporter, Canadians boycotting travel to America, countries you wouldn’t travel to because of politics, Saudi Arabia opening up to the world, heliskiing in Canada, the string of commercial plane crashes, the odds of being killed in a plane crash, the payout fliers received from the Delta crash in Toronto, the rise of autonomous vehicles, greenwashing in travel, to pay or not to pay for carbon offsets, criticism of Al Gore, the media making travelers feel bad for traveling, the breakdown of air travel and carbon, people who should be punished before the everyday traveler, airlines selling flights to unknown destinations, getting scammed and bribing cops in Mexico, and more!
Recording location: Palisade, Colorado
Tim's articles on Matador discussed on this episode
Air Travel Pollutes Relentlessly. Is Carbon Removal the Solution?
San Francisco Is Proof: Waymo Is Changing the Way Tourists Explore Cities
Powder, Passion, and the Pull of the Mountains: An Affair With the Powder Highway
Tim Wenger, Author at Matador Network (https://matadornetwork.com/author/twenger/)