Ep. 563: Circumnavigating the Globe via Skates, Bike, and Row Boat - Karlis Bardelis
Adventure Sports Podcast
Curt Linville
4.6 • 580 Ratings
🗓️ 26 August 2019
⏱️ 63 minutes
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Summary
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"Karlis is an ex project manager in the field of waste management who at the age of 28 realized that visiting mountains only a couple of times a year just won’t do, so he left his job and started a life of adventures and freedom, spreading the addiction and attracting others to BoB as well. Every adventure has a different team, but all of BoB team members have one thing in common - urge to get moving and true love for adventures.
In 2013, Karlis crossed Europe from North Cape to Gibraltar on Nordic skates in 60 days covering more than 6150 kilometers and setting a new Guinness Record - The longest ride on inline-skates. (The Guinness guys have not acknowledged this yet, but who cares - we know it’s true.)
From the end of January till mid-February 2014, Karlis and three other cycling enthusiasts traveled from Riga to Sochi by bicycle realizing a 2840 kilometers long wintery ride and reaching the capital of the Winter Olympic Games of 2014 in 17 days."
He's currently making his way to mainland Asia via rowboat across the Pacific Ocean. Today, he joins us from Papua New Guinea.
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | And sometimes they hit the boat with such a force that the sound, which I hear in the cabin, |
| 0:07.9 | it's so loud that I think, wow, it was like someone hit with the brick, you know. |
| 0:19.0 | This is the Adventure Sports Podcast. |
| 0:21.9 | Trying to help you find adventure every day in any stage of life. |
| 0:25.3 | You're going to hear from explorers, adventures, business owners, and anyone living their life a little more out of the box than usual. Hey folks, hope you had a good weekend. |
| 0:44.1 | You're going to hear a lot of background noise. |
| 0:45.7 | I got my dogs, my buddy Paul here, and the windows open. |
| 0:49.2 | So you're going to hear some crickets and some dogs whining. |
| 0:52.1 | So this isn't a typical intro. |
| 0:56.8 | Speaking of which, this isn't a typical adventure we're talking about. Carlos Bordellis is trying to navigate, not trying, he's actually doing it. |
| 1:03.5 | He's navigating the world via human power. And he's doing it in sections. You know, he's not |
| 1:09.0 | some guy with a ton of money. |
| 1:16.5 | He does what he can, goes home, works, saves up money, and does again. |
| 1:21.2 | But he travels for months and months at a time, if not years or two years. |
| 1:31.3 | And some of the things he's done to circumnavigate the globe is he spent 60 days on rollerblades cycling and rollerblading across Europe bicycling across part of Europe skiing in the Arctic Circle he's making his way by |
| 1:39.8 | rowboat and cycling kind of around near the equator and right now he just landed in |
| 1:46.4 | Papua New Guinea and we're interviewing him raw like at a mechanic shop as he's getting |
| 1:52.8 | something fixed and it's just he's raw he's on the adventure right now it's amazing he's been |
| 1:59.8 | listening to the show the whole way across the Pacific Ocean from Lima all the way to Papua New Guinea. |
| 2:05.7 | And he's just a great guy. He really, really was a joy to talk to you and I hope you enjoy it. |
| 2:09.6 | His project is called Board of Borders. You can check out Bord ofborders.com. See what he's done. See who he is, and how he pays for things, and well as |
| 2:19.2 | the cause that he's doing all this for. I encourage you to check it out. All that's in the show |
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