306 - John Duarte (Photojournalist & Long-Distance Cyclist)
Tangentially Speaking with Christopher Ryan
Chris Ryan
4.8 • 2.3K Ratings
🗓️ 26 February 2018
⏱️ 61 minutes
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Cassie and I met John Duarte at a highway rest stop in Dateland, AZ. He was riding his bike from El Paso to San Diego, which is a short "training run" for him. Join us for this spontaneous conversation in the van. #vanthropology2018
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| 0:00.0 | Radio Manu, Papa Tchango |
| 0:02.0 | All right ladies and gentlemen sorry for that |
| 0:31.9 | wind noise I'm sitting on out what is this a mute a mesa a high spot in the |
| 0:40.6 | desert just outside of Tertlingua Texas which is at the western entrance to |
| 0:48.7 | Big Bend National Park here's what happened you know this is this is my |
| 0:53.3 | favorite thing in the world these my two favorite things in the world combined |
| 0:57.2 | last night one is traveling and the others podcasting I'll tell you how that |
| 1:01.5 | happened Cassie and I were planning to go into Big Bend we got to the entrance |
| 1:05.9 | and the guy said oh the campgrounds are all full I recommend you go back to |
| 1:10.5 | Tertlingua and you know find a place to stay there and then come back early in |
| 1:16.0 | the morning and you know try to get a campsite you know before the crowds |
| 1:19.6 | arrive so shit we turned around went back to this little town Tertlingua which |
| 1:24.9 | doesn't really look like there's a lot going on there's like a ghost town and |
| 1:29.7 | couple of stores and a gas station and a lot of a lot of dirt and rock and so |
| 1:38.0 | like all right we'll just like get some dinner and we'll find something can |
| 1:40.9 | spick you as place to pull in and hope nobody bothers us and and we'll just |
| 1:45.4 | wait for tomorrow and then I remember that on well first I couldn't remember if |
| 1:50.6 | it was an email or where it came from but somebody had written to me saying hey |
| 1:54.5 | if you go to Tertlingua you know say hi or whatever and so I went looking |
| 2:01.1 | through all my emails and finally I found that it was it was a guy who wrote to |
| 2:05.5 | me through Instagram and he said that he had a buddy here who was an |
| 2:11.2 | interesting guy and we should look him up if we got to Tertlingua and his name |
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