Ep. 517: Update on a 5-Year Walk Around the World - Tom Turcich
Adventure Sports Podcast
Curt Linville
4.6 • 579 Ratings
🗓️ 10 May 2019
⏱️ 80 minutes
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Summary
Today we hear the update on Tom’s unbelievable 5-year walk around the world that started on April 2nd, 2015. 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 | we've been through so much and she's with me all the time you know like I have like this weird |
| 0:06.3 | fantasy of like some girl who's like it's me or your dog I'd be like like Savannah every day the week |
| 0:13.8 | get out of you this is the adventure sports podcast where we talk to athletes, adventurers, and business owners from around the world of adventure sports. |
| 0:27.8 | 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, |
| 0:34.5 | we want you to have the motivation and inspiration you need to chase that |
| 0:38.5 | next adventure. |
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| 0:45.2 | self-guided backpacking adventures, as well as backpacking gear rental. |
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| 0:53.3 | Thank you. You can check them out at campcrate.net. |
| 1:15.3 | So imagine wanting to get out of college, pay off some loans, and planning to literally walk around the world for the next five years. |
| 1:21.9 | That's exactly what Tom Tersage did when he set out from his home in New Jersey to walk all the way down to Argentina, and then some of Africa, across Europe, across Asia, Australia, and then back to his home |
| 1:31.0 | in New Jersey. |
| 1:32.9 | Tom is not done with that experience, but we interviewed him two years ago, and we replayed |
| 1:39.0 | that episode yesterday. |
| 1:40.8 | And today we have the update of where he is, what the last two years of his life have been like. |
| 1:46.1 | He's a great guest, super insightful, fantastic photographer. |
| 1:51.3 | Highly recommend following him on Instagram because it's really interesting stuff. |
| 1:56.1 | Humble guy. |
| 1:57.5 | I could have talked to him for days. |
| 1:59.1 | You can probably pick it up in this episode. It's a little longer than usual. It just, you know, sometimes you just connect. He had some time. Not all the guests always have a lot of time. So this is kind of a long episode. But man, there's some good, good nuggets of wisdom, good advice. And what he's doing is just, I love how pure it is I mentioned that a couple |
| 2:18.5 | times the episode it just adventure does not have to be complicated it does not have to be |
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