Ep. 516: A 5-Year Walk Around the World Revisited - Tom Turcich
Adventure Sports Podcast
Curt Linville
4.6 • 579 Ratings
🗓️ 9 May 2019
⏱️ 61 minutes
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Summary
Originally published May 15, 2017
On April 2nd, 2015 Tom Turcich left his home in New Jersey to embark on a five-year trek across the seven continents. The dream of walking around the world formed when seventeen after his friend AnneMarie passed. Since her death, Tom decided to make the most of each day. He is walking around the world to become immersed in unknown places and be forced into adventure day after day. In Texas, he adopted a dog, Savannah, and have been together ever since.
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| 0:00.0 | And there's this view of Lake Atalayan down below, the little towns. |
| 0:03.7 | And there's three volcanoes dotting the landscape around the lake, which is the lake is crystal blue. |
| 0:12.1 | And I just, I screamed. |
| 0:14.0 | I was like, holy, like, the beauty of it was so unexpected and so insane. |
| 0:22.5 | This is the Adventure Sports podcast where we talk to athletes, adventurers, and business owners from around the world of adventure sports. |
| 0:30.9 | Whether you're climbing Mount Everest, starting a bike shop, or getting up off your couch to take your kids hiking for the first time. |
| 0:37.8 | We want you to have the motivation and inspiration you need to chase that next adventure. |
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| 1:06.8 | So this is one of the first adventure sports podcast episodes I've ever listened to. And I was a listener |
| 1:14.8 | back then. I think this is from about two, two and a half years ago. And it was awesome. Because this |
| 1:24.6 | guy, Tom Tursich, who's the guest today, he literally just had like a jogging |
| 1:31.6 | carriage, a baby stroller that was a jogger and a dog that he adopted. And he's walking around the |
| 1:37.8 | world for five years. And it's just been, I mean, it's just a pure, pure adventure. It's awesome. Well, we wanted to do this |
| 1:47.0 | revisited episode today because tomorrow we actually have an update. We get to hear from him |
| 1:53.3 | two years later, how his walk has gone. And let me tell you, it's been an adventure. And it has gone |
| 1:59.1 | a bunch of different directions that's been crazy. And so I'm excited for you to listen tomorrow on the update. |
| 2:05.3 | And, you know, if we had more patrons and more funding, we would have more ability to do that. |
| 2:10.8 | Because a lot of these revisited episodes we do on Thursday could have updates on them on the Friday episode but it's just you know that takes a lot |
| 2:19.0 | of coordination with the guests reaching back out finding them so you know if we get up to you know |
| 2:24.7 | maybe a hundred patrons that's something we could do more often is bring up these ones from the |
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