Craft Beer Travel & Adventure

Hosts Ken and April visit St.

John Flaherty says Wondermint Brewing opened on June 22, 2024, in unincorporated Adams County, and he built it with Melanie Flaherty and Sam Odom.

Two breweries merged to solve the hospitality-plus-quality problem.

The hosts provide a detailed guide to a fun, flowy mountain bike ride in Hot Springs, Arkansas, suitable for a lunch break or short outing.

Hosts Ken and April record in Ghent with Farrell Stiers of Strom Brewery, a Colorado native who learned professional brewing in Belgium and now brews what he calls "a Belgian brewery through and through." Stiers describes the path from a Rock Slide Brew Pub dishwashing job at 16 through Cairo, Washington D.C., Baghdad and Bishkek to Ghent.

Gail Sherman of Wine Lovers Travel describes her move from corporate software sales to a wine-travel company founded in 2019, then to about 40 virtual tastings for roughly 800 people, including sessions for Amazon and Boston Consulting Group.

Soul Fire Project founder Cooper describes traveling for 14 years in a converted school bus powered partly by vegetable oil and solar energy.

Josiah Ro describes Journal of Lost Time events that grew from 40 vehicles on Playa Tecolote in Baja into larger gatherings across the United States.

Michael Anderson explains how a 2019 shuttle-bus conversion and a three-month COVID-era road trip led to full-time travel with his girlfriend, Andrea.