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.
