290 The Ballpark Boys; Chasing the Sun

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🗓️ 16 June 2012

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Before embarking on their college careers, the "Ballpark Boys," a group of lifelong friends from Seattle, planned an epic roadtrip across the USA, to attend a game at every major leage baseball stadium in the country. Hear how they did it and which ballparks were their favorites. Plus, Richard Cohen chased the sun around the world for seven years. He shares discoveries of the many curious ways the sun impacts life on planet Earth.

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0:00.0	When a group of high school buddies outfitted a van for an eight-week cross-country road trip,
0:04.5	he knew they were turning their childhood dream into the adventure of a lifetime.
0:08.7	Together, they visited all 30 Major League Baseball stadiums.
0:12.8	Turns out the food wasn't so bad either.
0:15.1	Barbecue in Kansas City was really good.
0:17.7	AT&T Park in San Francisco, they had a lot of really good seafood.
0:21.0	Travis got a...
0:22.0	Clam Chowder Bread and Anaheim, the special sauce brought versed in Milwaukee.
0:26.4	Meet a couple of the ballpark boys coming up today on Travel with Rick Steeves.
0:30.7	And Richard Cohen traveled the globe for seven years to learn the many ways people around the world view the sun,
0:37.0	and how the sun shapes their world, from ages long past to a ceremony in the Andes that still goes on today.
0:43.4	Although we knew that it was put on for some of the tourists who were there,
0:47.3	you still felt a tremendous pride in the local people that they knew the sun's power and were able to worship it.
0:54.0	We're chasing the sun and making the most of summer on today's travel with Rick Steves.
1:00.0	It's all around us and probably the easiest thing in the world to take for granted.
1:05.0	Coming up on today's travel with Rick Steeves, Richard Cohen tells us about what he discovered about the sun
1:11.0	and the many surprising ways that impacts our lives here on planet Earth.
1:15.0	Hi, I'm Rick Steeves.
1:17.0	In America, summertime means it's baseball season.
1:20.0	Last year at this time, four young guys who grew up together as Seattle Mariners fans made their childhood travel dream come true.
1:27.0	They outfitted a VW van and drove across the country to watch the home team play at each of the 30 Major League Baseball
1:33.9	stadiums in the US and Canada. They call themselves the ballpark boys and two of
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