369 Aniakchak Alaska; Bird Brains; Japan Inc.
Travel with Rick Steves
Rick Steves
4.5 • 2.5K Ratings
🗓️ 28 June 2014
⏱️ 53 minutes
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Summary
If you had wings, where would you fly? Learn how studying the remarkable intelligence of birds can take you around the world, and even teach us what it means to be human. We'll also hear about an amazing hiking journey across one of Alaska's least-visited wilderness reserves, then get a journalist's view on how Japanese society is coping with its economic pressures.
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| 0:00.0 | What makes you want to travel? |
| 0:02.0 | Hi, I'm Rick Steeves. |
| 0:04.0 | Coming up in the hour ahead, |
| 0:05.0 | Chris Solomon tells us what he found on a summer expedition |
| 0:08.0 | across Alaska's Antioch wilderness. |
| 0:11.0 | The berries got sweeter. |
| 0:12.0 | The fish started approaching the shore, trying to find, sniff out their home rivers, and the bears |
| 0:17.0 | started coming down to get ready to eat them, and you just felt like you were plugging |
| 0:21.1 | into something more elemental that spoke to you as a human being. |
| 0:24.4 | We'll also hear how you can learn some amazing things about life when you travel to observe |
| 0:29.0 | different types of birds around the world. |
| 0:31.3 | Noah Stricker shares tales from his birding travels from Oregon to the |
| 0:35.4 | outback all the way to the fearless penguins of Antarctica. |
| 0:38.7 | They'll follow you around just waiting for you to entertain them like you're some gigantic space alien that just |
| 0:43.8 | dropped in and a business journalist in Tokyo describes what he's learning about life in |
| 0:48.5 | Japan. The baseball is just incredibly fun here. I think it's more fun than baseball in Canada and the state. |
| 0:55.0 | It's all just ahead on Travel with Rick Steves. |
| 1:00.7 | A little bird can teach a lot about what it means to be human. |
| 1:04.0 | Coming up on today's travel with Rick Steve's, Noah Stricker tells us how his interest in |
| 1:09.0 | ornithology has taken him all over the world to discover surprising intelligence among bird species. |
| 1:16.1 | And a Canadian journalist based in Tokyo checks in with us on what he's noticed about Japanese |
| 1:20.7 | society in the five years he's lived there reporting on economic news. |
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