585 Pilgrim Trails of Italy; Wayfinding
Travel with Rick Steves
Rick Steves
4.5 • 2.5K Ratings
🗓️ 30 November 2019
⏱️ 51 minutes
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Summary
What is relying on GPS doing to your brain? We'll explore our innate "Wayfinding" abilities with a science reporter who's investigated how some people are able to navigate with only natural features as their guide. Plus, enthusiasts of hiking Europe's medieval footpaths share what it's like to walk Italy's pilgrim trails to Rome.
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| 0:00.0 | What's relying on a GPS doing to your brain? |
| 0:04.0 | Why is it that we are always rushed? |
| 0:07.0 | Why do we feel it's never okay to potentially get lost |
| 0:12.0 | or to find our own way under our own power with our own |
| 0:15.9 | problem-solving skills. Coming up MR O'Connor helps us explore our innate |
| 0:21.0 | sense of direction as a wayfinder. |
| 0:24.0 | Walking a long distance pilgrim trail in Europe can be an exhausting way to spend a vacation. |
| 0:28.0 | But people who've hiked the way of St Francis wouldn't have it any other way. |
| 0:32.0 | You push yourself and you get to know yourself. of St. Francis wouldn't have it any other way. |
| 0:32.6 | You push yourself and you get to know yourself. |
| 0:34.8 | You're away from all your distractions |
| 0:36.6 | that you have back home. |
| 0:38.2 | To be able to see the sights and smell the smells |
| 0:40.8 | and enjoy the experiences that St. Francis must have had. |
| 0:44.2 | It feels that it connects me to a history that's much deeper than I could experience at home. |
| 0:50.0 | We're walking through a thousand years of history on the pilgrim trails of Italy in the hour ahead. |
| 0:54.3 | It's travel with Rick Steves. |
| 0:56.0 | Come along. |
| 0:57.0 | The author of a detailed guide to the medieval Way of St. Francis and the head of an |
| 1:04.2 | organization that helps Americans plan pilgrim walks across Italy explain your |
| 1:08.7 | options for trekking Italy's ancient trails in just a second on today's travel with Rick Steves. |
| 1:14.0 | And a little later in the hour, a journalist who's investigated how we navigate the world |
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