Ep. 734: From Engineer to a Backpacking Career - Revisited - Jessica “Dixie” Mills
Adventure Sports Podcast
Curt Linville
4.6 • 579 Ratings
🗓️ 27 May 2021
⏱️ 51 minutes
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Summary
Originally aired June 3, 2019
When Jessica Mills, aka “Dixie”, quit her engineering job and began her first thru-hiking adventure of the Appalachian Trail, she never imagined her YouTube channel would grow into what it has become. Through her easy-going demeanor, matter-of-fact advice, and overall charming attitude, she has become one of the go-to sources of advice, inspiration, and how-to channels to learn about all things backpacking. I hope you enjoy this look behind the scenes of the Homemade Wanderlust channel and the triple-crowner who hosts it.
Be sure to check out Dixie’s weekly videos here, which include her most recent thru hike, The Florida Trail: www.YouTube.com/c/homemadewanderlust
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| 0:00.0 | I don't need this, you know, bad thing in my life that just sucks energy and it doesn't do any good, you know. |
| 0:08.0 | And so learning to get some of rid of that, too. |
| 0:11.1 | And I don't know about you if you went home after some of these trips and just started throwing away stuff in your house. |
| 0:16.3 | But I do that. |
| 0:17.6 | It's like, I don't need this junk. |
| 0:33.3 | Yeah. do that. It's like, I don't need this junk. Howdy folks? This is the Adventure Sports podcast. I'm your host, Mason Gravely. Today's episode is a |
| 0:38.8 | throwback to a couple years ago when we talked to Jessica Dixie Mills about how she got into |
| 0:43.9 | through hiking. And she's well known on YouTube, so I encourage you to really check out her |
| 0:49.3 | YouTube channel because that's where it kind of, and she does most of her work. And right now, |
| 0:53.4 | she's through hiking the |
| 0:54.5 | Florida Trail, which is 1,200 miles, and it's best done in winter and in early spring. I think she's |
| 1:01.3 | done. She's just posting the content now, but it's a really cool video series, really enjoyable. |
| 1:06.8 | And definitely anyone that hikes the Florida Trail, I always feel like it's so unexpected the things they see because it's not the Florida you see. |
| 1:15.7 | It's the Florida that, the true Florida, as I like to call it. |
| 1:18.8 | But anyway, I encourage you to check that out. |
| 1:20.6 | But before we jump in, I just want to give a shout out to the Restoration Depot for sponsoring this episode. |
| 1:26.3 | The Restoration Depot is a fun online community of |
| 1:30.1 | live classes that you can join with dancing, with drumming, with yoga, with meditation, |
| 1:37.7 | learn how to do some of these things, as well as some musical instruments, but learn from an |
| 1:42.1 | instructor that knows what they're doing and do it all virtually. |
| 1:44.8 | We can't always go into a place to have a class, but that doesn't mean we can't get a great |
| 1:49.5 | sense of community and some great interaction in a virtual setting. So I would encourage you to go |
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