Ep. 974: Quirky Adventures of Travel Writing - Aaron Millar
Adventure Sports Podcast
Curt Linville
4.6 • 580 Ratings
🗓️ 16 October 2023
⏱️ 65 minutes
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Summary
Camping, Hiking: Today we’re sitting down with ASP alumni, Aaron Millar, from episode 614, to talk about some of his early quirky adventures and how that led to the storytelling he does today over at the Armchair Explorer podcast and Armchair Productions. A 100-mile pub crawl, cliff camping, and walking the perimeter of London are all in today’s episode!
Aaron Millar is an award-winning travel writer, journalist, author, and podcaster. He contributes regularly to The Times of London, National Geographic Traveler (UK), and many other national and international publications. He has presented travel documentaries for National Geographic TV, written two books for London publisher Icon - 50 Greatest Wonders of the World & 50 Greatest National Parks of the World - and is the 2014 and 2017 British Guild of Travel Writers Travel Writer of the Year. His podcasts have been nominated for two Webbys, and won the 2022 British Guild of Travel Writers Travel Broadcaster of the Year.
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hey folks, welcome to the Adventure Sports podcast. |
| 0:25.1 | There is so much I could say about my friend Aaron Miller. |
| 0:30.4 | He was on the show back in episode 614 back in 2020, before the pandemic early 2020 right before I moved back to Florida |
| 0:42.5 | and we did one of the very few live interviews I've ever done and it was awesome you should |
| 0:49.4 | definitely go check that out in fact I might I might do that as the revisited this week, might not. But we're meeting |
| 0:56.6 | again. And what's so cool about this conversation is we were talking and I was actually flying |
| 1:02.7 | out to Colorado the next day. This was like a month ago, a couple months ago. And Aaron's like, |
| 1:08.3 | hey, where are you flying into? And come to find out, I was like two miles from his house. |
| 1:13.5 | He's like, we have to hang out. |
| 1:15.3 | So I got into town not 24 hours after we recorded this. |
| 1:21.0 | And we hung out, had a great time, went and got a couple beers at some breweries he likes to visit. |
| 1:25.9 | And it was awesome. |
| 1:27.3 | Aaron's an awesome dude I can't wait |
| 1:29.7 | we're going to interview his wife too who just ran across the Namibia desert uh or the desert in |
| 1:36.8 | Namibia I'm not sure the name of the desert exactly but that's going to be awesome it was like |
| 1:41.1 | a hundred mile run across the freaking desert. Unbelievable. If you don't |
| 1:45.6 | remember, we did, uh, the topic was adventures of a travel rider. And today we're actually |
| 1:51.1 | going to be talking about that a lot too. We're going to be dialing it back and focusing on a few |
| 1:55.9 | of his early adventures of being a travel rider. Um, things that were quirky, things that were |
| 2:02.5 | different, things that made him see things in a new perspective and how he kind of got that |
| 2:06.8 | career started off and where it's led to. He has his own podcast, a podcast, the one that he hosts |
| 2:15.9 | specifically, and for the longest time, is Armchair Explorer. |
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