Hey, everybody. It's Dylan. A few weeks ago, we put out an episode dedicated to what we

called our near-death travel experiences, but basically just times on a trip when things

went very poorly in a dangerous way. And we asked you to send us some of your stories.

You knew that everyone was so eager to share times they almost died, because boy did you

deliver.

Today we're going to listen to a few of the stories you sent us, and find out how you guys

survived. How you survived dodging obstacles while flying down a mountain. How you survived

drinking way too much absent in Paris, or getting driven to the airport by 12-year-old.

All of these stories and more after this.

Hi, my name is Paul Drisa. I live in Southwestern Minnesota. So my near-death experience comes

when I was bikepacking through Puerto Rico with a friend of mine. He exacted climbing

I think for seven hours that day, under the sun, and it was quite hot. We were sweating

all over the place, and we knew that all of this day was leaving up to a descent. That

was about the same distance. And we started going down this descent going like maybe like

five to ten to fifteen kilometers an hour to all of a sudden going 40 to 60 kilometers

an hour, and came a grand old time. The road is getting kind of narrow though, and

it is really like cut into the side of the mountain. So we've got like feetclips that

go going down. We have a little narrow roadway that's about twenty feet wide, maybe twenty

twenty-five feet wide, and then it gets down again. And up in the distance I see somebody

walking their dog with a chain. Now, dogs have been an issue with an altering, and I'm

a little worried about that stand, but I see that there's a man there holding the dog

for okay to be fine. But what happens is the owner of the dog is not paying attention,

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