Travel Bedtime Stories for Adults
Narrated by Thomas Jones, TK Kellman, Chloe De Burgh, Jessika Downes-Gössl, Abbe Opher, Elizabeth Grace, Arif Hodzic
Travel Bedtime Stories for Adults sets twenty-three Get Sleepy journeys end to end, one destination per story, each told slowly enough to sleep to.
The itinerary is long. It starts on the French Riviera and takes in Bordeaux, an autumn in London, Rome at the blue hour, Dubrovnik by moonlight, a Scandinavian evening, a sleepy train ride on the European Express, and a winter's day in the Black Forest. Further out there are the markets of Marrakesh, a view from above Cappadocia, the seven springs of Kinosaki, Ubud, Bovu Island, an autumn hike in New Zealand, a sail through the Spanish isles, and a cruise around Antarctica. The Americas get Costa Rica, a kayak on the Colorado River, a float down the Shenandoah, stargazing in Joshua Tree, and California by train. One story finds a hidden garden, and one goes underground into caves.
Every story was a podcast episode first, and the ones here were picked from the listener favorites. Fifteen writers are credited, and seven narrators take turns reading, so the voice changes with the destination but the pace does not. Nothing carries over from one night to the next. Some stories follow a traveler and some simply move through a place, but none asks you to remember what came before.
This is armchair travel of the sleepiest kind. The appeal is the change of scenery, not the arc, and the itinerary is built to be given up on partway. The narration stays soft from the first port to the last, so wherever you fall asleep, you will not miss the connection.
