Ep. 278: Searching for Lost Memories on the Pan-American Highway - Teresa Bruce
Adventure Sports Podcast
Curt Linville
4.6 • 579 Ratings
🗓️ 12 June 2017
⏱️ 58 minutes
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Summary
Teresa Bruce talks about the ultimate road trip where she and her husband Gary drove down the Pan American Highway in a 4-wheel-drive truck searching for people who helped her family survive the same trip 30 years earlier when they did it in a 1968 vintage camper.
Teresa's new book "The Drive: Searching for Lost Memories on the Pan-American Highway" goes on sale Tuesday June 13, 2017. make sure you get your copy as well as read more on her blog! The book will be available on Amazon, Barnes and Noble and Audible.
Blog: www.teresabruce.me
Books: www.teresabrucebooks.com
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| 0:00.0 | We get out and stand behind the camper, gaping at the prospect of turning back. |
| 0:04.9 | Going forward requires the logic of a lunatic. |
| 0:08.4 | The force of falling water could spin out the back wheels and sweep us to the bottom of the ravine. |
| 0:13.6 | Even if we were to miraculously survive and somehow surfaced near some sort of a phone, |
| 0:18.9 | my call, I would sound like one of those Nigerian scams. My home fell over a |
| 0:23.9 | cliff in South America and I've helped everything. Please send money so I can eat. |
| 0:28.1 | Episode 278, chasing childhood memories down the Pan American Highway with Teresa Bruce. |
| 0:34.3 | This episode is sponsored in part by Health IQ. |
| 0:42.5 | Health IQ uses science and data to secure special rates on life insurance for health conscious people. |
| 0:46.8 | Learn more and get a free quote online at health IQ.com slash adventure. |
| 0:52.1 | You're listening to the Adventure Sports podcast, brought to you by 180 Tech. We talk with adventurers from around the globe to bring you the inspiration and motivation you need to get started in the outdoors or to keep you moving if you're already there. Now here's your host, Kurt Linville. |
| 1:07.2 | Hi friends, Kurt here. Hey, I am excited about the guest today. |
| 1:13.0 | It's been a little while since we did kind of a road trip adventure travel show, and that's what this one is about. |
| 1:19.5 | I have Teresa Bruce with us, and Teresa has recently completed a book called The Drive, |
| 1:26.2 | searching for lost memories on the Pan American Highway. It's a neat |
| 1:30.2 | flashback of a trip redone 30 years after the fact, and I think it's going to be fantastic. |
| 1:37.2 | But this is going to be a really fun episode about road tripping through Central and South America. |
| 1:44.0 | Teresa, welcome to the program. |
| 1:46.1 | So glad to be here, Kurt. Thanks for asking. Oh, you bet. It's our pleasure. This is going to be a |
| 1:51.2 | fun one. I just returned from Mexico, Teresa, and so I have a nice context for this in my mind right now. |
| 1:59.1 | But let's start with a backstory. |
| 2:02.3 | Who is Teresa? |
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