A Wild Mission to Visit Every National Park in One Year

Outside Podcast

Wilderness, Sports

4.3 • 2.2K Ratings

🗓️ 8 February 2023

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Emily Pennington wanted to see it all. But life on the road was fiercer than she ever imagined. After almost half a decade of planning a cross-country expedition to see every one of America’s National Parks, she quit her job, left her home and her boyfriend in Los Angeles, and set off in her van to find herself in January of 2020. Almost right away, a pandemic, a string of natural disasters, and a breakup sent her veering way off her roadmap—and searching for healing in the unforgiving magnificence of our public lands.

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0:00.0	We all know Vans for their classic shoes.
0:03.8	I mean, who hasn't had a pair of their checkerboard slip-ons in their closet?
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0:26.1	All that makes the Neo VR3 the most technically advanced Ultra-Range shoe yet.
0:31.6	Check it out for yourself at vans.com.
0:45.7	From outside magazine, this is the outside podcast.
0:55.4	I'm Marin Larson and I'd like to introduce you to an outside contributor who a few years
1:01.6	ago decided to check off a life's worth of bucket list adventures in just one year.
1:09.2	Meet Emily Pennington.
1:11.4	I just wrote a book called Farrell about trying to visit every US national park in one
1:17.8	year and that year turned out to be 2020.
1:20.9	Emily also wrote dispatches from that trip for an outside magazine column called 63
1:26.7	Parks Traveler.
1:28.5	Her journey wasn't a wanderlust seeking whim or something she cooked up just for a magazine
1:33.8	assignment.
1:35.1	It was a dream years in the making.
1:38.6	The idea for the giant parks adventure started in 2016 when I was going through a breakup
1:45.7	ironically with the person who introduced me to backpacking and kind of helped me follow
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