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Adventure Sports Podcast

Ep. 080: Polly Letofsky - 14,000 Mile Walk Around the World - Part 2

Adventure Sports Podcast

Curt Linville

Science, Health & Fitness, Sports, Nature, Fitness, Wilderness

4.6579 Ratings

🗓️ 28 August 2015

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Summary

Polly Letofsky had dreamt of walking around the world since she was a young girl. One day, she decided that she would fulfill her dream and she set off from her home in Vail, Colorado to begin her 14,124 mile, 5-year journey. Listen in as she describes her adventure and talks about the people she met over the next 5 years. Be sure to check out her book "3 MPH: The Adventure of One Woman's Walk Around the World" 

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Transcript

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0:00.0

I really got this idea in my head since I was when I was 12, and I saw this man out walking

0:05.6

around the world.

0:06.4

Well, I saw an article of him walking around the world.

0:08.6

And I thought, well, boy, I didn't know you could even think of such a thing.

0:14.0

So, and I don't know what happened in my other life, where it made some deep analysis

0:20.3

to figure out why that resonated with me.

0:22.8

But regardless, that really tickles my fancy.

0:26.7

And I thought, well, gee, that's how I want to go see the world.

0:30.1

Someday I'm going to walk.

0:48.9

I'm going to walk. Episode 80, Polly Latofsky Walking Around the World Part 2.

0:54.7

This is the Adventure Sports podcast. Brought to you by 180 TAC.

0:57.1

Get out there and have some fun.

1:14.5

Welcome to another episode of the Adventure Sports podcast.

1:15.8

This is your host, Travis.

1:18.2

This is part two of the Polly Latowski interview,

1:20.7

where she walked around the entire world on foot.

1:23.0

And if you haven't heard the first part,

1:25.1

just go back to the previous episode before this and check it out before you continue on here.

1:28.0

So let's get on to the rest of the interview with Polly.

1:31.0

You wrote three miles per hour, the adventure of one woman's walk around the world.

1:36.4

Can you go into a little bit about that book?

1:38.4

And I think there's some documentary available as well.

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