Telling Stories about Travel on the Radio…It Works!

I’m excited today after a meeting with a charismatic radio personality named Monte Belmonte.   Over the past few months we’ve been developing different ideas to bring our travel  website to the airwaves.  Most of the suggestions I brought up were complicated, involving guests, remote broadcasts, and recordings of sounds in faraway places. These all have merit but I’ve figured out it’s overthinking.

What Monte and Sean at WRSI have suggested is to just tell stories. I like that.  So today, I put together some ideas and headed down to the station’s studios in Northampton.  GoNOMAD Travel Radio will be simply stories that are told with zest and enthusiasm. Stories of experiences I had on my trips, or stories retold about articles we’ve published on GoNOMAD.  Each segment will be just one story, and last between 90 seconds and two minutes. There will be sound bytes of music from whatever place the segment is about, this I’m most excited about.

This morning I recorded stories about Iran, Normandy, Alabama and on the prevalence of robberies occurring on airplanes in the air.  We have some interest in a very appropriate sponsor, so we are very optimistic that this will begin airing on the local AM and maybe FM stations next month.

We will also be able to feature the episode clips on GoNOMAD and on this blog. Stay tuned!