Embracing Adventure with Brittany Washington
Wild Ideas Worth Living
REI Co-op
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🗓️ 31 May 2022
⏱️ 32 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | In January of 2020, Brittany Washington packed her life, moved out of her New York City |
| 0:10.3 | apartment, and left on a trip around the world. |
| 0:15.5 | My goal was to learn how to sail a boat, but not only just sail, I want to learn how to |
| 0:20.0 | sail by celestial navigation. |
| 0:22.4 | I found this tiny little sailing school in Osaka, Japan, and I was like, well, if I'm |
| 0:28.3 | going to go, there's a few places that I would stop along the way, and so I was like, |
| 0:33.2 | I'm going to go to Thailand for a month and go to a tie-fighting school. |
| 0:38.3 | I wanted to hike a mountain, so I ended up in Malaysia and hiked Mount Kino Ballu. |
| 0:41.8 | Let me go to Bali and go and get my open water scuba diving certification. |
| 0:48.1 | Each wild idea led to another and another, and by the end, Brittany was planning to travel |
| 0:53.0 | to 10 countries over the course of six months. |
| 0:56.5 | In each place, she would study with a new teacher or guide, absorbing all the information |
| 1:01.7 | she could from her adventures. |
| 1:05.1 | I'm Shelby Stanger, and this is wild ideas worth living. |
| 1:13.6 | Brittany Washington is an explorer and filmmaker with a background in journalism. |
| 1:18.4 | Before her trip, she was a correspondent in New York City, working at places like Open |
| 1:22.6 | Society Foundations and Huff Post. |
| 1:25.6 | She wrote articles and made videos about incarceration, homelessness, poverty, and the foster care |
| 1:31.7 | system. |
| 1:32.9 | But she hit a wall, and in 2019, she was ready for a change. |
| 1:37.5 | Brittany reached out to experts and teachers in 10 countries. |
| 1:40.6 | She bought plane tickets, and she took off. |
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