very much more a cultural expedition.

You set out for this thing exploring this very, very remote area.

So we were in western Alaska, Wales, Alaska, which is the western most city in the U.S.

It's, if you think back to Sarah Palin's famous line, I can see Russia from here.

You actually physically can see Russia from there on a clear day.

You can see tomorrow from there, too.

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Get out there and have some fun.

Episode 102, Sonia Baumstein, sea kayaking, ocean rowing, and stand-up paddleboarding.

Hello and welcome to the Adventure Sports Podcast.

This is your host, Kurt Lindville.

Today is part two of a two-part show with Sonia Baumstein. Sonia is an amazing guest who rode across the Atlantic. She paddled from Seattle to

Juneau, Alaska. She biked from Mexico to Seattle. She has done a lot of amazing feats.

She even attempted a crossing of the Pacific,

and we ended the last episode with an account of her almost, just barely missing, getting run over

by a large fishing vessel somewhere a little bit east of Japan and it was an amazing story so I'm

going to press rewind for about 60 seconds so you can hear the story in its entirety as we

join this interview in progress enjoy there happened to be one day that I woke up at 3.30 a.m.

I was a day and a half out, and I had gotten maybe two hours of sleep, three hours of sleep.

I was still really close to the shore. It's hard to break off of shore when it's a major landmass because you've got local currents, local waves, local weather conditions that are different once you get 100 miles offshore on top of the boat traffic.

So you're trying to break away from land in this boat that's completely self-powered and dependent on wind to blow you off land to an extent.

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