Episode #130 The Honeymoon Experience

In today's episode we talk about Aaron's honeymoon trip on the high seas, and to Disney World.

We're also joined by not one, but two special guests this episode! Justin is back from Episode #128, and Maggie was there to record her guest spot for Episode #131, so we had her join us for the conversation during our social episode, and we are also joined by a secret third guest in the form of Wicket, Justin and Andrea's dog.

Finally, the taste for this episode is Andrea's take on a simple Zombie.

And per our instructions in the episode, you can find a few recipes for a Zombie here.

If you have not seen or heard any part of the Me First and the Gimme Gimmes live album, you can watch a short video here.

If you want to learn more about the escape room on certain Royal Caribbean cruises, check out the blurb about The Observatorium here.

Episode #129 Keepsake Cidery

In today's episode we explore Keepsake Cidery

Taste their delicious Cider

Finally, we learn about the difference between Pitching and Wild yeast

The official term for a person who makes cider is Cidermaker. There seems to be some discussion about the term, but Cidermaker seems to be the most agreed upon term. So Andrea and Aaron were both wrong in the episode.

As to back sweetening a cider, brewngrow.com has a great write up you can check out here.

There are a variety of resources to learn about ways to use yeast to ferment pretty much anything you want, the best starters we've found are beer and brewings dictionary entry for Pitching yeast, winemakermag has an article on Wild yeast that we also found very enlightening.

Thank you all so much for listening, and we hope you enjoyed our detour about meat and meat replacements. 

Episode #128 The Thrilla from Manila

In today's episode we explore the city of Manila in the Philippines

Taste some Red Horse beer

and learn about what it's like to travel to the Philippines for work


We were super exited to have Andrea's spouse Justin join us to share his stories of travelling to the Philippines for work. We learned a lot about the area Justin visited, and it made us want to taste so many new things in the future.

We talk about items to search out like Red Horse beer (which Aaron didn't enjoy sadly), Halo Halo, Gising Gising, Jeepneys, Jollibee, and Fort Santiago.

We hope you enjoyed this episode, and would love to hear your thoughts. Please reach out to us on our Facebook page, or send us an email to fans@travelbyproxy.com

We look forward to seeing you next week, as we discuss Keepsake Cidery.

Episode #127 Japanese Candy Edition

In today's episode we explore an Anime Convention 

Taste some Japanese candy
And discover what it means to drink pure sugar water

In further reading about Kit Kats in Japan, we found that there have been over 300 varieties created for the Japanese market and you can purchase some of the different flavors in variety packs on Amazon.

Nara Dreamland seems to still have a lot of interest in it even since its closure and eventual demolition, you can read about its history in more depth on the Wiki.

And since we feel pretty bad for not remembering the name of the dog that had a statue put up in its honor, so we found the Wiki for Hachiko.

And the photo for this episode comes from Aaron's time at the Missouri Botanical Gardens, and it is a view of the beautiful wooden bridge in the Japanese garden area.