EPISODE 22: We Just Started Driving South: A Survey Trip to Bangladesh
SUMMER SHORT-TERM TRIP SERIES: SURVEY TRIPS (BANGLADESH)
This is the finale of the Short-Term Trip Summer Series — and we're going to Bangladesh.
Two twenty-five-year-old millennial vloggers named Luke and Paul. A retired sixty-something businessman named John. A Muslim driver and guide. And me. We flew to Dhaka, hired a car, and just started driving south through four districts with eight million Bengali Muslims and almost no long-term workers.
We had a map. We had advice. And we had the Spirit of God who kept saying: turn here, go there, talk to this person, stay here.
The whole trip was documented in ten YouTube vlogs by TwinSauce — Luke and Paul — and I walk you through every stop in this episode. Watch the vlogs alongside the episode for the full experience: the Old City of Dhaka, the kingdom businesses, the Nice Guesthouse in Noakhali, our Cornelius who said "bring your friends, I will take care of them," the ferry boat we may or may not have made, the agricultural district of Patuakhali, the jungle paradise of Jalukhati, the elephant who wanted our money, and the hip-hop dance that went viral in an hour.
Two phrases I say about southern Bangladesh to this day: a beautiful paradise. And generously hospitable.
This is what survey trips do. They make the unknown known. They open doors that cannot be opened any other way. And they make it impossible to look away.
Resources mentioned in this episode:
✔️ Bangladesh Survey Trip Vlog TWINSAUCE Playlist
✔️ Take a Virtual Survey Trip to Bangladesh PART ONE
✔️ Take a Virtual Survey Trip to Bangladesh PART TWO
✔️ Across the Street and Around the World Book
✔️ Training for Short-Term Trips
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