Embracing Adventure with Brittany Washington

Wild Ideas Worth Living

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🗓️ 31 May 2022

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Brittany Washington spent an unexpected year in Bali during the pandemic. She made the most of her time learning, adventuring and creating her own video series.

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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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