Hey, folks, welcome to the Adventure Sports podcast.

I'm your host, Mason.

Today we're throwing it back to episode 272, which was originally titled,

Learning to Travel Happier, Jamie Kurtz.

This is when Kurt was the host.

You know, Thursdays, throwback Thursday episodes.

And I just thought, you know, learning to travel happier through Jamie's book called The Happy Traveler, that was a really cool, interesting concept to dive into because Jamie is the,

is an associate professor of psychology at James Madison University and is

using her book to dive into why travel makes us happier and makes us you know more fulfilled in life

or has the potential to and how to maximize that because just traveling doesn't necessarily do it for you.

You have to go with intention and go with the desire to explore and unpacking those secrets of

how to make a better travel experience and get the most bang for your buck.

So we're going to dive into the psychology of that, which is a little unique for our show, as Kurt's going to say. And before we do that, I wanted to let you know I'm starting

a new podcast on September 26 called Florida Uncut. You're going to be able to find it anywhere you

get podcasts. But what it's about, since moving back to Florida a few years ago from Colorado, I have been kind of made aware that I'm on the front lines of conservation.

And this is such a beautiful and unique and wonderful landscape that a lot of people that live here or are coming here don't realize.

And so I am going to be interviewing the people

behind the movement to protect Wild Florida. So there's lots of effort being done. There's a lot of

organizations involved, a lot of different overarching projects, one of the bigger ones being the

Florida Wildlife Corridor, the Everglades Restoration Project.

I'm a huge fan of Florida.

I love it.

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