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My Solo Road

Becoming a Pilot & Exploring Alaska | ft. Melody Burdette

My Solo Road

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Society & Culture:places & Travel, Places & Travel, Society & Culture

4.9937 Ratings

🗓️ 15 March 2023

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Summary

From traveling to Alaska in her van to getting her pilot’s license, my badass friend Melody Burdette is here with us to talk all about it! We’re diving into her top tips on integrating hobbies into your life, why she decided to get her pilot’s license in only 4 weeks, and her adventures in Alaska (seeing the northern lights AND orcas). So if you’re looking for inspiration from the queen of hobbies, this episode is it! Episode notes > https://divineontheroad.com/becoming-a-pilot-in-alaska/ Connect with Sydney: https://divineontheroad.com/ https://www.instagram.com/divineontheroad/ https://www.tiktok.com/@divineontheroad https://www.youtube.com/@DivineOnTheRoad https://bit.ly/sydneybali2023 (Join Sydney in Bali in May!) Connect with Melody: https://www.instagram.com/melskyburd/

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0:00.0

You are listening to My Solo Road by Divine Media.

0:08.0

Hello friends, welcome back to My Solo Road.

0:10.0

It is Sydney, your host.

0:12.0

I am so excited for today. I am actually sitting in the

0:17.1

new van as I speak live in the new van. And it's just so beautiful it's so perfect I actually just

0:23.8

posted on Instagram talking about the new van a little bit because I don't think I

0:28.2

realized that the expectations would be such a quick turnaround to show everyone the van.

0:35.0

Like, maybe a lot of people just didn't really think that hard into it,

0:39.0

which would make sense, like why would you?

0:41.0

But when someone delivers you a brand new van or you move into a new home even if it's beautiful

0:46.2

it's like not your home yet you look at it and it's like bare bones you know like there's like no life into it yet you haven't like breathed any

0:53.6

coziness any home into it like it's just a house and like then they delivered

0:58.6

this van to me all I went and picked it up it wasn't delivered but you know what

1:01.7

I'm saying it was gorgeous and I'm obsessed with it but it's like not really a home yet

1:07.3

so I'm trying to turn it into that quickly but I realized that like everyone was kind of expecting me to share it right away and I just I didn't know that was going to be the case and so I am doing everything as fast as possible

1:19.5

But I just posted on Instagram like I said to please be patient with me please be kind I'm gonna say this on the podcast now I'm like nervous about it but I'm actually not planning on sharing the full van tour until after I've returned from Costa Rica because there are really

1:37.7

just two like visual things in the van that are going to make it even better that the guys are going to do while I'm in Costa Rica.

1:45.6

I'm actually going to be giving the van back to them for those like 10, 11 days and

1:50.1

they're going to do a couple more things that's going to make the van even better,

1:54.0

which we always had planned.

1:55.3

They just didn't have time to do it and I really, really wanted it.

1:58.3

A lot of you guys were like crazy timing that you picked up the van right before your birthday.

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