Y We Travel

Why do we travel? To return. Y We Travel hosts Eric Weiner and Erica Vella discuss our drive to go home – the pull to visit family, old haunts, past lives. Eric speaks to Y We Travel essayist Kamal Al-Solaylee, the author of Return: Why We Go Back to Where We Come From. They discuss themes from Kamal’s piece in The Walrus, including his Yemeni ancestry and his deep emotional ties to Toronto. With age, his travel has focused on communing with people and moments from his own history. One exception is Singapore. Erica picks up the thread in Ottawa, interviewing architect Moshe Safdie at the Canadian National Gallery. Moshe’s career is full of landmark designs and he was lead architect for Jewel, the award-winning complex at Singapore’s Changi Airport. Moshe describes his connection to the city and explains how Jewel’s terraced gardens, indoor waterfall and retail experience fit into the city’s fabric and endear Changi to passengers. 

Why do we travel? To meet the neighbours. Y We Travel hosts Eric Weiner and Erica Vella discuss the origins of the series and their own motivations for travelling. Eric interviews author and Y We Travel essayist Pico Iyer. They trade travel anecdotes from Japan to California to North Korea and discuss themes from Pico’s piece in The Walrus magazine, which argued that we should travel to meet our neighbours. Erica continues the conversation with a selection of Toronto Pearson passengers. “Why are you travelling today?” she asks. Read the essays: https://ywetravelmag.ca Contact us: [email protected]

Y We Travel hosts Eric Weiner and Erica Vella preview the stories, voices and themes listeners can expect in the podcast’s first season. Eric is a New York Times bestselling author and former foreign correspondent whose wanderlust first prompted him to run away from home at age 5. Erica is a podcaster and former journalist who works at Toronto Pearson airport. The pair will speak with top travel writers and thinkers to explore the deeper motivations behind our journeys and tell us how they fit into fast-moving trends. The series launches March 10.

The Y We Travel podcast explores the deeper motivations behind our journeys and positions them in the context of fast-changing trends. Why would someone vacation in North Korea? Why do passengers plan trips around the world’s best airport? Why is airport cuisine suddenly a thing? Why do passengers change their travel patterns – and airlines change their routes? Join Y We Travel hosts Eric Weiner and Erica Vella, who explore the deeper motivations behind our journeys and tell us how they fit into fast-moving trendsAvailable May 5.