If there is a place with “Erk” in the title, Erk wants to know about it. So far, he has visited the farming village of Erk (Hungary) & the suburb of Berlin called Erkner (Germany). He tried to find Erk Ranch in America but he could not find it. Erk in Hungary was the only reason that Erk went to the country & the nearby capital, Budapest.
Erk has traveled extensively throughout Australia & has also been to New Zealand, America, Mexico, Canadia, Japan, Hong Kong, Macau, China (very briefly) as well as a lot of Europe & the UK. If he has traveled since Erk Pod started in 2007, he has taken you along for the ride!
A highlight of Erk’s US visit in 2013 was a visit to San Luis Obispo to see his friends Shawno & Jen. Hear what happens in a very funny episode of No Market Radio (episode 26).
This episode will eventually be included in the Erk Pod subscription as a stand alone episode as the spiritual episode 400 of Erk Pod at the relevant time of Erk’s US trip coverage.
Erk Pod is Erk’s talk podcast – episodes now available from Erk’s 2013 US trip
Photo – Erk visited the SLO PD, February 2013. It was closed.
IMPORTANT NOTE – Episodes 25 – 322 will be very gradually being converted to the new format & audio host.
Welcome to Erk Pod – Erk’s longest running podcast. Dating way back to 2007, Erk Pod was Erk’s first podcast. At many stages the show has been news & current affairs based & sometimes is based on Erk’s travels.
Due to the revamp of this website & changing audio hosts, Erk Pod was on an extended hiatus. This show & associated shownotes will take some time to convert to the new format/audio host. Erk has recently returned from another epic trip to the US in early 2013.
Welcome to episode 407 of Erk Pod (despite what Erk might say in the episode audio). Continuing his epic trip across America, Erk goes on a swamp tour near New Orleans. Because the weather was not warm enough, Erk only seen baby alligators on the swamp but that was cool in itself! A little later in summer & the large alligators could be seen on the same tour. Enjoy cruising the swamps with Erk!
Welcome to episode 406 of Erk Pod (despite what Erk might say during the episode). Erk has wheels! He hopped in a Chrysler & it's as big as a whale & he is about to set sail! Deciding to get out of New Orleans, Erk hires a car (achievement unlocked - a nice upgrade!) and points it north into a rural area of Louisiana to visit Ms Paramedic. On the way, he cruises the dial of American radio to sample what people who don't listen to podcasts are listening to. If that's not enough, there's some road trip singing by Erk (sorry!) The episode finishes with more audio from Erk's New Orleans tour.
Welcome to Erk Pod episode 405 (despite what Erk might say on the episode itself). Erk is still in New Orleans. He visits the world famous (or infamous) Bourbon Street. Is the area a tourist trap or can you have fun there if you are a local? At the end of the episode, there is more audio from the tour that Erk took when he first arrived in New Orleans.
Welcome to episode 404 of Erk Pod (despite what Erk might say in the episode). Erk returns to Frenchmen Street, New Orleans. The scene is very much different on a Tuesday afternoon in the strange time between lunch & dinner. Erk was at the same locations that he was at the first Mardi Gras parade that he was at on the previous Saturday night. At the end of the episode, there is more tour audio from Erk's New Orleans tour.
Welcome to episode 403 of Erk Pod (despite what Erk might say during the episode!). Erk is still in New Orleans & goes searching for streetcars. At the end of the episode, you will hear more New Orleans tour audio as Erk continues his look around the city of New Orleans.
Welcome to Erk Pod episode 402 (despite what Erk might say during the episode!). After the New Orleans city tour (which you can hear more of at the end of this episode), Erk decides to jump into a cab & head down to the French Quarter of New Orleans. He is glad that he did that because there was a parade - one of many during the 2013 Mardi Gras & Superbowl periods.
Welcome to episode 401 of Erk Pod. Erk has now arrived in New Orleans after his epic train trip from Los Angeles. After a nice hot shower, he is ready to go for a walk in a new city & then goes on a tour of the city. The tour guide that you hear in the later part of the episode is a local tour guide called Richard. Richard gives a great introduction to the city as well as a personal insight to how bad things were (and still are) as a result of Hurricane Katrina in 2005.
Welcome to episode 400 of Erk Pod - despite what Erk might say during the episode! Erk is arriving into New Orleans from Los Angeles on the Amtrak long distance passenger train Sunset Limited. It was an epic journey across most of America into what is uncharted territory for Erk. During his 2009 trip, Erk planned to visit New Orleans but he found that time was against his original plan so he bypassed "The Big Easy." Erk had great first impressions on this Amtrak service due to the excellent on-board service provided by the on-train staff. After only 8 hours in New Orleans, they would head back to Californy (as Shawno would say!) the next morning. This episode was not intended to be episode 400. Due to the amount of Audioboo recordings made at the start of the trip, episode 400 came along a lot earlier into the trip than expected. The spiritual episode 400 celebrating Erk Pod & the end of the trip with Shawno & Jen from No Market Radio will feature in the relevant part of the trip.
Welcome to episode 399 of Erk Pod (regardless of what Erk might actually say during the episode). Carrying on with his first train trip across America, Erk heads east towards Houston enroute to New Orleans on Amtrak's Sunset Limited. Erk wasn't in Houston for very long so he might have to make a longer visit next time.
Welcome to episode 398 of Erk Pod. After not feeling very well while waiting for the train to leave California, Erk starts his first trans-contiential train trip across America. Starting in Los Angeles, he will take a train to New Orleans. After a week there, he heads to Miami via Washington DC. The first part of that trip is covered on this episode from Los Angeles to El Paso. Onboard the train, Erk has everything he needs within 3 carriages of his sleeping berth including a rather interesting sleeping car attendant called Henry Ford.
Welcome to episode 397 of Erk Pod. On this episode, Erk is walking around the streets of Long Beach, California. But is he breaking the no loitering rules that he saw a sign about on his 2009 visit? Does he find Hooters? Does he manage to find his way back to his motel?
Welcome to Erk Pod episode 396. Now that the Audioboo produced episodes have been completed, Erk now presents extended episodes recorded at various stages during his 2013 trip to America. These episodes have mostly different content than the Audioboo produced episodes which were a great summary of the events of the trip. On this episode, Erk has arrived into LA. He shares details about why the flight was late. But overall, it was a good flight. The next stop of the episode is the California Science Centre (Erk can't spell Centre the American way! It's just wrong!!!) where Erk goes to see the Space Shuttle Endeavour. If you are ever in LA, that is a worthwhile stop! Speaking of stops, Erk returns to the Metro rail system heading in the direction of Long Beach.
Welcome to Erk Pod episode 395. Now that the Audioboo produced episodes have been completed, Erk now presents extended episodes recorded at various stages during his 2013 trip to America. These episodes have mostly different content than the Audioboo produced episodes which were a great summary of the events of the trip. This episode was recorded at Sydney International Airport prior to Erk leaving for LA, flying Virgin Australia. Not that Erk knew at the time he booked the flight but he picked the exact day where Virgin were switching computer systems. While waiting, Erk ponders the trip & wonders how many final calls should people be given when catching a flight.
Welcome to episode 394 of Erk Pod. Erk is now back from his trip to America & Mexico from mid January to the end of February. During this trip, he recorded Erk Pod content but unlike previous years, he did not edit and release Erk Pod episodes on location. For those following along on Twitter and Facebook, however, there was another way that Erk enabled you to hear what was going on fairly close to real time. Using an iPhone/iPad application called Audioboo, Erk recorded short snippets (up to 5 minutes in duration) from various locations & then uploaded them to the interweb as time/interweb permitted. The first few episodes (including this episode) after Erk's return are the Audioboo messages put together. After all of the Audioboo messages have been put together, regular Erk Pod episodes from on location give more detail & different content to the Audioboo messages. This is the final series of Audioboo message based episodes. Next episode returns to the usual Erk Pod on location format. In this episode, Erk starts his journey in San Luis Obispo where he meets up with long term friends & fellow podcasters Shawno & Jen (No Market Radio). Here about the trio's adventure during Erk's time in SLO. But good things must come to an end & Erk goes home with a layover at LAX.
Welcome to episode 393 of Erk Pod. Erk is now back from his trip to America & Mexico from mid January to the end of February. During this trip, he recorded Erk Pod content but unlike previous years, he did not edit and release Erk Pod episodes on location. For those following along on Twitter and Facebook, however, there was another way that Erk enabled you to hear what was going on fairly close to real time. Using an iPhone/iPad application called Audioboo, Erk recorded short snippets (up to 5 minutes in duration) from various locations & then uploaded them to the interweb as time/interweb permitted. The first few episodes (including this episode) after Erk's return are the Audioboo messages put together. After all of the Audioboo messages have been put together, regular Erk Pod episodes from on location give more detail & different content to the Audioboo messages. In this episode, Erk is in one of his favourite American cities, San Francisco CA. He is there for a short time but a good time!
Welcome to episode 392 of Erk Pod. Erk is now back from his trip to America & Mexico from mid January to the end of February. During this trip, he recorded Erk Pod content but unlike previous years, he did not edit and release Erk Pod episodes on location. For those following along on Twitter and Facebook, however, there was another way that Erk enabled you to hear what was going on fairly close to real time. Using an iPhone/iPad application called Audioboo, Erk recorded short snippets (up to 5 minutes in duration) from various locations & then uploaded them to the interweb as time/interweb permitted. The first few episodes (including this episode) after Erk's return are the Audioboo messages put together. After all of the Audioboo messages have been put together, regular Erk Pod episodes from on location give more detail & different content to the Audioboo messages. In this episode, Erk is in one of his favourite American cities, Portland OR.
Welcome to episode 391 of Erk Pod. Erk is now back from his trip to America & Mexico from mid January to the end of February. During this trip, he recorded Erk Pod content but unlike previous years, he did not edit and release Erk Pod episodes on location. For those following along on Twitter and Facebook, however, there was another way that Erk enabled you to hear what was going on fairly close to real time. Using an iPhone/iPad application called Audioboo, Erk recorded short snippets (up to 5 minutes in duration) from various locations & then uploaded them to the interweb as time/interweb permitted. The first few episodes (including this episode) after Erk's return are the Audioboo messages put together. After all of the Audioboo messages have been put together, regular Erk Pod episodes from on location give more detail & different content to the Audioboo messages. In this episode, Erk takes you across America via Amtrak starting in New York, changing trains in Chicago & ending up in Portland OR.
Welcome to episode 390 of Erk Pod. Erk is now back from his trip to America & Mexico from mid January to the end of February. During this trip, he recorded Erk Pod content but unlike previous years, he did not edit and release Erk Pod episodes on location. For those following along on Twitter and Facebook, however, there was another way that Erk enabled you to hear what was going on fairly close to real time. Using an iPhone/iPad application called Audioboo, Erk recorded short snippets (up to 5 minutes in duration) from various locations & then uploaded them to the interweb as time/interweb permitted. The first few episodes (including this episode) after Erk's return are the Audioboo messages put together. After all of the Audioboo messages have been put together, regular Erk Pod episodes from on location give more detail & different content to the Audioboo messages. In this episode, Erk starts recording at 37000 feet in a plane enroute to New York City & then records various messages from around New York. There is a lot more to come from New York on the extended episodes of Erk Pod after this series of Audioboo based episodes are finished. Erk hearts New York at the best of times but the addition of a snow storm was even better for this Australian guy!
Welcome to episode 389 of Erk Pod. Erk is now back from his trip to America & Mexico from mid January to the end of February. During this trip, he recorded Erk Pod content but unlike previous years, he did not edit and release Erk Pod episodes on location. For those following along on Twitter and Facebook, however, there was another way that Erk enabled you to hear what was going on fairly close to real time. Using an iPhone/iPad application called Audioboo, Erk recorded short snippets (up to 5 minutes in duration) from various locations & then uploaded them to the interweb as time/interweb permitted. The first few episodes (including this episode) after Erk's return are the Audioboo messages put together. After all of the Audioboo messages have been put together, regular Erk Pod episodes from on location give more detail & different content to the Audioboo messages. In this episode, Erk starts recording after almost missing his Amtrak train to Miami. He heads down the east coast of the US & then jumps onboard 70000 Tons of Metal. After that, he heads to Mexico. It was an interesting trip to Miami on the train where the trip got progressively warmed the further south the train went. Then there was 70000 Tons Of Metal that you can hear full details on via Erk FM: Metal Monday & a later episode of Erk Pod then a flight to Mexico City. Erk wanted to go to Mexico during his US trip in 2009 but that was during the H1N1 virus pandemic. As expected, Mexico was totally different to America.
Welcome to episode 388 of Erk Pod. Erk is now back from his trip to America & Mexico from mid January to the end of February. During this trip, he recorded Erk Pod content but unlike previous years, he did not edit and release Erk Pod episodes on location. For those following along on Twitter and Facebook, however, there was another way that Erk enabled you to hear what was going on fairly close to real time. Using an iPhone/iPad application called Audioboo, Erk recorded short snippets (up to 5 minutes in duration) from various locations & then uploaded them to the interweb as time/interweb permitted. The first few episodes (including this episode) after Erk's return are the Audioboo messages put together. After all of the Audioboo messages have been put together, regular Erk Pod episodes from on location give more detail & different content to the Audioboo messages. This episode commences following Erk from New Orleans & continues north to Washington DC.
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