Yesterday in Travel Podcast

Travel has a fascinating history. We talk about all the stops along the way.

[Yesterday in Travel Podcast @yesterdayintrav]

Hello world...our first episode is up! We disucss the Airline Deregulation Act of 1978 and it's effect on the frenzied travel world we live in today. We also look back at the history of airlines and the politics around the influential law. Enjoy! https://t.co/i5K8apCnsI

[Yesterday in Travel Podcast @yesterdayintrav]

Quite a moment! We covered the Space Race in an episode last season about Sputnik: https://t.co/widzZIzgOb

Take a listen! 💫

[Michael Beschloss @BeschlossDC]

Sixty years ago today: “I believe this nation should commit itself to achieving the goal, before this decade is out, of landing a man on the moon and returning him safely to the earth."

[Yesterday in Travel Podcast @yesterdayintrav]

Huzzah! 💪💉✈️

[The New York Times @nytimes]

Breaking News: American tourists who have been fully vaccinated against Covid-19 will be allowed to visit the European Union this summer, a top official told The Times. https://t.co/VkcyzMWCNu

[Yesterday in Travel Podcast @yesterdayintrav]

Hey @ConanOBrien, we covered the death of Leon Trotsky in our latest episode! His death by ice pick is a fascinating part of the story — as is his connection to travel history ⛴️

Check it out: https://t.co/ye6d8jAWbC

[Yesterday in Travel Podcast @yesterdayintrav]

Not quite accurate, but close actually... we delve into the details in our last episode: https://t.co/NPlsIWiukY

[Yesterday in Travel Podcast @yesterdayintrav]

For the final episode of our second season, we go to Mexico City — and to the arrival and assassination of Leon Trotsky. Here, Trotsky is pictured arriving in Mexico. Behind him is Frida Kahlo, with whom Trotsky would soon start an affair.

https://t.co/ye6d8jAWbC

[Sean Fraga, Ph.D. @seanfraga]

Immigrant trains! Harvey Houses! Chinese workers! Really enjoyed talking transcontinental railroad history with the @yesterdayintrav podcast duo, @humanoverboard and @Kaleena_Fraga (who happens to be my sister!) Check out the episode here:

[Kaleena Fraga @Kaleena_Fraga]

There's so much to unpack about the completion of the transcontinental railroad — travel! politics! immigration! — so we loved talking to @seanfraga, an expert on this stuff (who also happens to be my brother). 🚂

Take a listen!

https://t.co/kj4zy4frx8

[Yesterday in Travel Podcast @yesterdayintrav]

New episode! Not only do we talk about a cool moment in travel history — the completion of the transcontinental railroad in 1869 — but we also bend the ear of a historian who knows all about it: Dr. @seanfraga! 🚂

Take a listen:

https://t.co/ZcnDuPKUNG

[Yesterday in Travel Podcast @yesterdayintrav]

The launch of Sputnik in Oct. 1957 terrified Americans — and inspired the Soviets. Check out this cool Soviet stamp from the era, then take a listen to our latest episode about the start of the Space Race 💫

https://t.co/widzZIzgOb

[Yesterday in Travel Podcast @yesterdayintrav]

Flight searches are starting to accelerate...could this be the beginning of the end of our hiatus on travel? What have we learned and what will we do differently as travel restarts???

[Yesterday in Travel Podcast @yesterdayintrav]

New episode! How a tiny metal orb called Sputnik gave what would later be known as the Space Race it's official start when it successfully orbited Earth one fateful day in October 1957: https://t.co/widzZIzgOb

[Travel + Leisure @TravelLeisure]

The Tokyo Olympics Reportedly Won’t Allow  Fans From Abroad https://t.co/QFDXa5cESw

[Yesterday in Travel Podcast @yesterdayintrav]

And we took a swing at answering it ourselves in our episode on Hawaii and Hurricane Iniki, which disrupted travel back in 1992:

https://t.co/zPxm8UuCm9

[Yesterday in Travel Podcast @yesterdayintrav]

Our show is about travel history. But we keep coming back to the question of what travel will look like in the future — post-pandemic. How will travel in places like Hawaii change? This article does a great job examining that question:

https://t.co/yll5SVUHWN

[Yesterday in Travel Podcast @yesterdayintrav]

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[The Daily Beast @thedailybeast]

The E.U. will introduce electronic covid cards to allow those who have been vaccinated to skirt regulations and those who haven’t to prove they have been tested https://t.co/uqv89e5PrO

[Yesterday in Travel Podcast @yesterdayintrav]

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[Yesterday in Travel Podcast @yesterdayintrav]

Some choice political cartoons from the NYTimes during Castro's New York visit for the U.N. General Assembly in 1960. Check out the episode: https://t.co/U3XlyiWbrl

[Yesterday in Travel Podcast @yesterdayintrav]

By the look of it, Khrushchev couldn't be happier to go up to Harlem for a photo-op with Fidel Castro and boost his bona fides with African Americans, Latin Americans, and the poor and working classes of the world during the 1960 U.N. General Assembly. https://t.co/U3XlyiWbrl

[Yesterday in Travel Podcast @yesterdayintrav]

This American business man sued the Cuban government after an investment he made failed as a result of the Revolution and got the U.S. to confiscate a Cuban plane as payment. This happened to several Cuban planes, including the one that Fidel flew in to the U.N assembly in 1960.