Ep. 834: Walking from Morocco Back Home to England - James Scanlan
Adventure Sports Podcast
Curt Linville
4.6 • 580 Ratings
🗓️ 31 May 2022
⏱️ 55 minutes
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Summary
In 2018, James Scanlan was living in Egypt but had grown tired of the Cairo dust. He looked west along the lines of latitude until he found Agadir in Morocco, packed a bag, took a plane and set off to walk back to his family home in Taunton, England.
He’s recently written a book about the first leg—A Moroccan Journey: Agadir to Tangier on Foot—a heady mix of blankly staring from café terraces and experiencing the warmth and hospitality of strangers as he tramped over 1,000 kilometers along the Atlantic coast of Morocco to Tangier.
Book: A Moroccan Journey: Agadir to Tangier on Foot
Blog: jimsknees.com
Website:www.james-scanlan.com
Instagram: @jamesmscanlan
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| 0:00.0 | Hey folks, a little bit different setting tonight. I am not in my, at home in my studio. |
| 0:24.6 | I am gone for the weekend, so I forgot to bring my equipment. |
| 0:26.4 | So I'm actually recording this on my phone. |
| 0:34.2 | But today's episode is with James Scanlan, and we recorded this a while back about walking from Morocco to the UK, back home to the UK. So James lives in |
| 0:40.5 | Egypt. Really cool backstory where he's from, how he ended up there. And what he and his |
| 0:47.2 | partner, they just enjoy taking walks. That's literally like their hobby. So just around the |
| 0:52.6 | neighborhood in the evenings, personally, I've taken a lot of |
| 0:56.0 | walks lately like after dinner. If it's still early enough, my family and I will go on a walk. It's awesome. |
| 1:01.9 | Well, James cranked that up quite a bit, decided to walk from Morocco of all places, just literally |
| 1:07.9 | to go kind of laterally across the planet to Morocco from Egypt and then walk |
| 1:12.4 | back home to the UK. And so this is that story. Amazing. I love the simplicity of walking. |
| 1:18.4 | You know, we've had tons of walkers on the show over the years. And I love talking to him because |
| 1:23.7 | it's just a pace in a way of traveling and a way of adventuring that's so accessible |
| 1:29.1 | for so many of us a lot of us can walk most of us probably can walk doesn't take tons of practice |
| 1:34.3 | or skill just takes doing it that's about it so enjoy this episode and we will be talking again |
| 1:41.0 | on Thursday. |
| 1:49.1 | All right, folks, welcome to the Adventure Sports Podcast. |
| 1:51.9 | James Scanlan is with us today. |
| 1:53.1 | James, how you doing? |
| 1:54.8 | I'm doing well, thank you. |
| 1:55.2 | How are you? |
| 1:56.6 | I'm doing great, man. |
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