015 From Hiking the PCT to Finding Meaningful Work, Liz Bryant of Wild by the Mile
Curiosityness
Travis DeRose
4.8 • 566 Ratings
🗓️ 25 July 2018
⏱️ 68 minutes
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Summary
Liz is a former NBC news reporter who quit her job to hike the Pacific Crest Trail. After her hike, she went back to work only to realize this wasn't the life she truly wanted. That began the late nights of scrolling through #vanlife on Instagram. Flash forward, Liz has been on the road for a year in her converted Sprinter van. Plus, she's doing the work she cares about by sharing inspiring and important stories.
This is a fun episode where we talk about finding routine and schedule on the road, the joys of emptying a toilet holding tank, misconceptions about truckers, Liz's checklist for finding safe campsites if you're traveling alone, and even Tempur-pedic mattress toppers!
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, camper. Ladies and Camper gentlemen. All right. This is Campers and Vans getting coffee, |
| 0:07.2 | episode 15, and I am the host of the show, Travis DeRose. So thanks for being here. This episode's cool. |
| 0:14.2 | I have on Liz Bryant of Wild by the Mile. She was super fun to talk to. I love this interview. She's a former NBC |
| 0:22.5 | news reporter who basically quit her job to hike the Pacific Crest Trail, went back to work, |
| 0:30.1 | kind of got caught up and realized she wasn't doing what she wanted to do and what she found out |
| 0:35.3 | she wanted to do on the trail. So quit her job again, got into this new stuff that's a lot more of what she wants to do. And now she has her own van. She's been in it for like a year now. So it's a cool, inspiring story. It's pretty great how she got started in all this. So Liz is awesome. We talk about all this sort of stuff. We talk about her |
| 0:55.6 | toilet holding tank, which you don't want to miss. She has a little PSA for truckers. We talk |
| 1:01.5 | about finding safe campsites if you're traveling alone and things to think about when you're |
| 1:06.1 | doing that. And then we talk about a temporepetic mattress topper even. So you don't want to miss any of this. |
| 1:12.8 | Here is the episode and here is Liz. |
| 1:17.7 | All right. |
| 1:18.4 | Hello, Liz. |
| 1:19.3 | How you doing? |
| 1:19.8 | Hi. |
| 1:20.7 | I'm great. |
| 1:21.4 | How are you? |
| 1:22.1 | I'm doing good. |
| 1:23.0 | Thank you for being on the show. |
| 1:24.4 | Super appreciate it. |
| 1:26.0 | Yeah, I'm really excited because I learned about your |
| 1:28.3 | podcast from my girlfriend and my guy friend, The Dirty Darling's, Matt and Meg. They're very |
| 1:37.1 | special to me. Awesome. Perfect. So are you pretty good friends with them or how long have you |
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