643 Pandemic Road Trip; Corona Wanderlust; American Surprises

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🗓️ 3 July 2021

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Esteemed travel writer Paul Theroux recounts his cross-country adventure driving from Cape Cod to southern California amid a pandemic, and Don George of National Geographic Traveler describes how he's dealt with wanderlust while staying close to home. Then Laurence Brown of YouTube series Lost in the Pond shares a few of the surprises he's found since moving to America from England.

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0:00.0	Traveling the quickest way between two points doesn't give an author like Paul
0:04.3	Thoreau much to write about. Coming up, he tells why he took a road trip from
0:08.1	Cape Cod to LA in the middle of the pandemic. What you discover in America is
0:12.8	great differences, cultural differences, political differences, differences in
0:18.1	ways of solving problems. For travel writer Don George, looking at his own
0:22.3	neighborhood with the I have a traveler, helped him deal with the wanderlust
0:25.6	that a lockdown can stir up. The closer I looked the more I saw the
0:29.9	more the world gave back to me because I was appreciating it. Meanwhile,
0:34.3	Lawrence Brown has had to rethink a few things since moving to America from
0:38.1	England, like what constitutes a long road trip. Threats think a hundred miles is
0:43.7	a long way and Americans think a hundred years is a long time. Come along as we
0:48.5	take a closer look at our American home in the hour ahead. It's travel with Rick
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1:28.6	how you see the place where you live? Coming up on today's travel with Rick
1:32.3	Steve's, Don George reveals how pandemic wanderlust forced him to take a closer
1:37.2	look at his California home. And British ex Pat Lawrence Brown shares his
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