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Adventure Sports Podcast

Ep. 607: Learning to Travel Happier - Revisited - Jaime Kurtz

Adventure Sports Podcast

Curt Linville

Sports, Science, Fitness, Nature, Health & Fitness, Wilderness

4.6579 Ratings

🗓️ 30 January 2020

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Summary

Originally aired May 22, 2017

Jaime Kurtz visits with Curt to talk about learning how to travel happily as well as getting the most out of your hard-earned vacation. She also shares some interesting psychology studies that help us understand some do's and don'ts of travel.

Her book: The Happy Traveler: Unpacking the Secrets of Better Vacations

psychologytoday.com/blog/happy-trails

Twitter: @JaimeKurtz1



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0:00.0

If you want really good coffee to take on your next adventure, use CS Instant Coffee.

0:05.9

You can find out more about them at c.s.instant.comfey.

0:12.6

Think about the fact that if you are in the same place for a while, it might start to lose its

0:18.2

ability to wow you because we get used to everything that

0:21.9

surrounds us on a regular basis. So just have some novelty, mix it up.

0:30.9

This is the Adventure Sports podcast, where we hear stories of adventure from every corner of the

0:36.2

planet. We interview all sorts of folks who are using their sport to explore the world around them

0:40.9

and give you the inspiration you need to get out there and have some fun.

1:02.5

Learning to travel happier. Wow, that's something we could all do. I can't tell you how many times I've been somewhere new and been in the worst mood for whatever reason. And, you know, you think

1:09.9

you're going to be in these beautiful pictures going to these

1:12.3

awesome places and everything's just going to work out fine but that's not always how it works

1:16.1

it's just like normal life in a lot of ways you have to be conscious about you know waking up

1:22.2

on the right side of the bed really and in making the experiences happen because they're not

1:27.3

going to just come to you.

1:29.8

But this episode originally came out in May of 2017, and if you don't know, I just want to tell

1:35.8

all the new listeners, on Mondays we do brand new episodes, and on Thursdays we do revisited

1:42.2

episodes with our 500 episode backlog we we do revisited episodes with our, you know, 500 episode backlog.

1:46.4

We started doing revisited once a week.

1:48.9

One, because I am a full-time stay-at-home work-from-home dad, and I simply don't have the time to produce two brand-new episodes a week.

2:00.7

That wasn't the case eight months ago,

2:03.4

and that won't be the case in the future. I'll be able to make two episodes a week again.

2:07.6

But for now, in fact, my son is playing at my feet right now because, you know, I've got a lot to

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