Ep. 634: Traveling to Every Country in the World on a Teacher Salary - Brian Asher
Adventure Sports Podcast
Curt Linville
4.6 • 580 Ratings
🗓️ 4 May 2020
⏱️ 56 minutes
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Summary
After humble beginnings in the world of sports, Brian was introduced to summiting mountains, vast wilderness, and travel when he went to work at a summer camp in Colorado that changed his life forever. After that experience, as well as encouragement from his brother, he was eager to see more of the world. That’s when he took a solo trip to Central America just to experience the culture and scenery.
He was hooked!
Brian quickly began traveling all over the world, racking up visits to dozens of countries in a relatively short amount of time. It wasn’t long before the idea to visit every country in the world became his pursuit.
Today is the story of how Biran did just that. Well, every country except one...
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| 0:00.0 | keep in mind that there's five to ten countries that are at the same cost as the U.S. |
| 0:07.3 | And then there's 185, 190 countries that are cheaper than our country. |
| 0:11.6 | And it could be five to ten times cheaper than our country. |
| 0:18.3 | This is the Adventure Sports podcast, where we hear stories of adventure from every corner of the planet. |
| 0:24.0 | We interview all sorts of folks who are using their sport to explore the world around them |
| 0:28.3 | and give you the inspiration you need to get out there and have some fun. Today's episode is really meant to inspire you from when this whole quarantine thing passes. |
| 0:49.8 | Brian Asher is a teacher in California and was able to travel the world. |
| 0:54.6 | He did take a year off of teaching to kind of complete this. |
| 0:58.4 | He traveled to every country except one, and we're going to get into which one that was and why. |
| 1:03.8 | He is planning to travel to it, by the way. |
| 1:06.4 | But he did all this, you know, not coming from an adventurous or travel background, |
| 1:11.8 | just kind of, you know, a normal kid playing normal sports, baseball and whatnot. |
| 1:16.0 | And a trip to Colorado in a camp, he went there, changed his life. |
| 1:19.8 | And so he's going to tell that story. |
| 1:21.0 | He's also going to tell that it was his brother that got him into it, |
| 1:23.5 | but he tragically lost his brother and decided in his honor to travel the world because |
| 1:30.4 | they were doing that together. So just an awesome story because he doesn't have a lot of money |
| 1:36.2 | to do this, being a teacher, of course. And so he talks about just how he's able to do that. |
| 1:41.1 | And also, you know, how you can also do that. You know, |
| 1:44.2 | you might not have aspirations to travel to every country in the world, but, you know, you can make |
| 1:49.2 | traveling more frequently, more affordable, um, possible for you and your family, uh, with some |
| 1:55.0 | of Brian's tips and tricks. And he's just the kindest guy you could ever imagine. So I really |
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