It was beautiful.

I had my stars at night and it was warm.

But at the same time, I was just starting to deal with the fact that, you know,

I'd spent every penny that I had.

The trip was definitely not going to go according to plan.

And I didn't know what to do at that point.

Okay. know what to do at that point. Hey folks, welcome to the Adventure Sports podcast. I'm your host, Mason Gravely.

Man, today's episode, one of the very, very rare chances we get to actually talk to one of the guests in person.

And if you know the name, you know Jerome Rand, he was on the show back at episode 644 about his nonstop nine-month sale around the solo sale around the world,

literally sailed for nine, almost 10 months, clear around the world, never saw anybody

all by himself. One of like six people to ever do that.

Unbelievable story.

Well, I had the chance a couple months ago to sit down and talk with Jerome.

He was really close, like 20 minutes from my house, had to take the opportunity.

We sat down and had about a two and a half hour conversation.

And we're going to break that episode up

or that interview up into two different episodes today's going to be part one and because it's in

person there's a totally different dynamic than you're used to it's not just cut and dry interview

it's so much more conversational there's visual cues there's body body language. There's you're more engaged.

It's totally different vibe. And every time I get the chance to do this with a guest, it's so much

fun. And it typically goes a little longer because, you know, there's so much more you want to

talk about and you have time for it. So this episode was awesome. It's about his most recent attempt at the

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