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Adventure Sports Podcast

Ep. 749: Searching for Lost Memories on the Pan-American Highway - Revisited - Teresa Bruce

Adventure Sports Podcast

Curt Linville

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

4.6580 Ratings

🗓️ 22 July 2021

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Summary

Originally aired June 12, 2017

Teresa Bruce talks about the ultimate road trip where she and her husband Gary drove down the Pan American Highway in a 4-wheel-drive truck searching for people who helped her family survive the same trip 30 years earlier when they did it in a 1968 vintage camper.

Teresa's new book The Drive: Searching for Lost Memories on the Pan-American Highway is available at Amazon, Barnes & Noble, and Audible.

Book on Amazon: The Drive: Searching for Lost Memories on the Pan-American Highway

Blog: www.teresabruce.me

Books: www.teresabrucebooks.com

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Transcript

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0:00.0

you know, I wouldn't just jump into it lightly because, you know, people have obligations,

0:05.1

and that's certainly a responsibility you've got to consider.

0:08.2

But I would never let it get in the way of if you really have a passion,

0:11.4

if this is something that is just sticking with you and you wake up at night thinking about it,

0:16.5

it's probably a sign that you should do it.

0:37.3

Hey folks, welcome to the adventure sports podcast. I'm your host, Mason Gravely. This show is all about

0:39.1

getting you to do the things that you want to do, specifically in the world of adventure

0:44.8

in adventure sports. And we are providing stories to help you do that. This episode is something

0:52.2

I'm really interested to hear about because when I was told one time that someone was looking at my car, it was an old SUV.

1:00.2

My wife and I were driving at the time, old beat-up car.

1:03.0

And we were talking about the Pan American Highway for some reason.

1:06.7

And they said, you could drive the whole Pan American highway, you know, barring any major, major mechanical issues in that vehicle or in any vehicle you really have.

1:17.4

You do not need some overland $80,000 rig or some crazy expensive vehicle.

1:24.2

Well, all vehicles are kind of expensive right now.

1:26.6

But you know what I'm saying?

1:27.4

You don't need something armor-plated to drive the Pan American Highway.

1:32.2

And that really changed my perspective.

1:33.9

And that was someone who had done the Pan American Highway in a vehicle that wasn't, you know,

1:38.4

probably ideal to a lot of people.

1:39.8

But if you don't know what that highway is, it is literally not, it's just a network of roads

1:44.8

that go from the highest point in Alaska, Prudo Bay, I believe it is, all the way down to the

1:51.2

lowest point of South America in Argentina, Ushwaya.

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