Ep. 744: Backpacking Across the Country of Georgia - Alexandre Bilodeau Desbiens
Adventure Sports Podcast
Curt Linville
4.6 • 579 Ratings
🗓️ 5 July 2021
⏱️ 56 minutes
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Summary
Oftentimes the best adventures are not in the most well-known places or in the most dramatic of sceneries. Hidden gems of adventure are all around us. In fact, as we say on this show, adventure is anywhere you are.
Alexandre had his sights set on Turkey, a country he had longed to visit. Little did he know, the adjacent and lesser-traveled country of Georgia would quickly become one of his favorite places in his more than seven-year full-time travel adventure.
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| 0:00.0 | He drove all the wind of the field to our tent, woke us around midnight, and he had no English, |
| 0:07.0 | but he was basically trying to tell us, I have a place, I have States, I hope you had a |
| 0:38.3 | great fourth of july weekend um celebrated your freedom somehow if you're listening in the uk |
| 0:43.8 | uh i don't know if y'all celebrate anything for fourth july it was kind of kind of not a great day for y'all i guess |
| 0:50.3 | but hey at least we're like best friends now. Anyway, my name is Mason. This is the |
| 0:55.6 | Adventure Sports podcast. And yeah, we talk about adventures. And today's adventure actually has to do |
| 1:02.1 | with a different country altogether, the country of Georgia. We're talking to a full-time adventure, |
| 1:08.0 | Alexandra Billowedow Desbians, full-time adventuring all around the world for |
| 1:12.9 | the last seven years. And what I love about that is you get to see so many places. You get to see |
| 1:17.5 | the places that are really hyped up and the places that aren't. And so many people who see so much |
| 1:23.0 | of the world, we hear it time and time again, some of their favorite experiences are the places off the beaten |
| 1:28.3 | path. The places where I hear this phrase a lot specifically, you don't have any expectations, |
| 1:34.5 | places where you weren't trying to build up in your head or you weren't trying to, you know, |
| 1:38.2 | get through in your head. It was just the places you didn't have anything to go off of. You just went. |
| 1:43.4 | And oftentimes those places end up being our |
| 1:45.9 | most memorable. I don't know, there's got to be something that can explain that. And maybe that's a good |
| 1:51.0 | lesson to learn in life in general. But anyway, we're going to hear Alexander's story. Great |
| 1:56.8 | conversation. And before we get started, I wanted to make make you known make you aware of one of our |
| 2:02.3 | sponsors expedia who has a show all about travel so if you'd like to travel to georgia yourself |
| 2:07.9 | which i'm absolutely interested now especially after looking at some of the pictures that |
| 2:12.9 | alexander showed they have a podcast to help help keep motivated called Out Travel the System. And it's in |
| 2:20.0 | its third season. It basically has a central mission to inspire and inform you about travel, |
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