194 - Malith & Izia (World Travelers)
Tangentially Speaking with Christopher Ryan
Chris Ryan
4.8 • 2.3K Ratings
🗓️ 19 July 2016
⏱️ 71 minutes
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Summary
Malith walked away from his home in France about 15 months ago and has been walking ever since. He walked past me last night and I knew I wanted to hear his story. He wandered along the Camino de Santiago then kept going south in Portugal until he reached Gibraltar, where he met a couple sailing to the Canary Islands. He'll be here for a while, then hopes to find a boat going to the Caribbean, South America, and on to Asia. He's a bit over a year into a 5-year journey.
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| 0:00.0 | Radio Manu, Papa Tzango. |
| 0:02.3 | Rio Copter's |
| 0:03.7 | Hey, you sweet things out there how you doing? |
| 0:32.6 | Chris Ryan coming to you from Gran Canaria, Las Palmas, I'm down in Las Palmas, which is the biggest city on the island. |
| 0:43.1 | It's where the local people live as far as cities go. The other big communities are mainly tourist zones down south. |
| 0:54.0 | So I'm up here in the north and this is one of my favorite types of podcasts because it's completely unplanned. |
| 1:01.1 | There was zero planning scheduling, zero figuring out of anything involved in this. |
| 1:08.9 | I was sitting in a cafe last night by the beach watching the sunset and the pretty girls walk by and drinking a pint of Guinness, which costs half here what it does in New York or Barcelona. |
| 1:24.2 | Another nice thing about this island. By the way, this island apparently is very popular with digital pilgrims. |
| 1:31.6 | Digital... no shit, I always call them digital pilgrims but that's not what they're called. |
| 1:37.3 | Digital nomads, digital fucking nomads. I don't know why digital pilgrim just comes to me as if they're like worshipping the spirit of technology or something. |
| 1:49.9 | Anyway, this is a popular place with people who make a living through their laptops and just want someplace great to live and cheap. |
| 1:59.6 | So apparently this is one of the biggest places in Europe for those sorts of folks. |
| 2:05.4 | And I'll probably be hooking up with some of them at some point and get some of them on here to talk about how they do it. |
| 2:11.9 | How do you do it? |
| 2:14.2 | Anyway, I'm sitting in this outdoor cafe reading the New Yorker on my iPad. |
| 2:23.6 | And this dude walks by and he's got a big old backpack. I think I actually talk about this a little bit in the episode. |
| 2:31.1 | But anyway, he's got this big backpack and it's got duct tape all over it. He's got a cute little dog with him. |
| 2:38.2 | And I could just see that this is a special special guy. You just see it in his eyes right away. |
| 2:44.7 | Interesting guy. He's on an interesting trip. And luckily, you know, he walked by. I didn't want to bother him or say anything. |
| 2:51.5 | But then he came back and I actually turned around and thought, you know, I could go say hello, introduce myself. |
| 2:58.4 | Because my first impulse was like, I want to get by the guy beer, you know, by I'm a sandwich, whatever. |
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