Thomas Preinl … Inspired By His Grandfathers

About this episode

Thomas Preinl shares his extensive travel experiences and insights into the extreme travel community.

Thomas Preinl has been to 190 countries Hey now, I am your host, Ric Gazarian. On this episode I have the pleasure to speak with Thomas Preinl who I met at the NomadMania meeting in Uzbekistan and spent time with him during a recent visit to Thailand. Thomas is one of those characters who has been Chasing 193 but only recently found the extreme travel community. Thomas has benefited with flight benefits due to his employment with Lufthansa for years. As Thomas will share, he is German by birth, but not by character, having a flexible and adaptable travel persona. You will get to meet him at the Extraordinary Travel Festival in Bangkok. I would like to thank everyone for their support of Counting Countries, especially my Patrons. You know them, you love them! Bisa "fully nomadic" Myles, Ted Nims, Adam "one-away" Hickman, Steph "Phuket" Rowe, Simen Flotvik Mathisen, Ed Hotchkiss, Barry Hoffner, Katelyn Jarvis, Philippe "BC" Izedian, Gin Liutkeviciute, Sunir Joshi, Carole Southam, Sonia Zimmermann, Justine, Per Flisberg, Jorge Serpa, Sam Williams, Scott Day, Dana Mahoutchian, Mihai Dascalu and Ryan Knott for supporting this podcast. You can support this podcast by going to…

People in this episode

Host: Ric Gazarian

Guest: Thomas Preinl

Topics covered

• travel
• extreme travel community
• personal stories
• cultural experiences
• travel benefits

Keywords

• Thomas Preinl
• Lufthansa
• travel
• Extraordinary Travel Festival
• Uzbekistan
• Thailand
• Chasing 193

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Lufthansa

Places: Germany, Uzbekistan, Thailand

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