With a personally valuable but vocationally challenged degree in general science fresh in hand, John Lowell, at 23, faced the prospect of putting on a tie and hitting the bricks in his home town to find a job and start paying off his student loans. While sitting around the dinner table on a short trip to San Francisco to visit his father and brother, his father's question locked-up the brakes, sending that ride to a skidding, squealing stop - thank God. "Have you thought about travelling?" Umm, no. What do you mean? That started in motion a two month prep of finding odd jobs in SF and soliciting a contribution from his grandmother that would lead to a one-way ticket to London, his brother's backpack and sleeping bag, and a one page rundown of where and how to find work picking olives in Peloponnese, Greece (which turned out to be a dead end). Ten months later, John returned, a thoroughly changed person on a track that, without that dinner conversation, would never have been unveiled.Interesting People, Interesting Conversations: Conversations About Travel and Adventure, a podcast with host Matthew Ismail, launches with this odyssey of travel and discovery. Welcome!

John Lowell was second-generation born and raised in Portland, OR and now lives in San Francisco where he's lived for a total of about 25 years (with breaks). He has also lived and worked in Los Angeles, Atlanta, Taipei, Taiwan (2 yrs.), and Nairobi, Kenya (3 yrs.), spanning half a dozen different industries. He's currently starting his own, long incubated venture focused on bringing a digital daydreaming experience to fellow daydreamers.