Epic Trips & Micro-Adventures w/ Alastair Humphreys

Extra Pack of Peanuts Travel Podcast

Travis Sherry

Society & Culture, Places & Travel, Society & Culture:places & Travel

4.6 • 890 Ratings

🗓️ 16 July 2019

⏱️ 67 minutes

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Summary

Do you allow your lack of funds to dictate your travels or lack thereof? Are you looking for an epic adventure or are you more of a micro-adventurer? Today's guest is someone whose accomplishments will make you feel slightly guilty you didn't hit the gym yesterday since they include cycling around the world for 4 years, rowed across the Atlantic Ocean, pulled a 600-pound sled across the Empty Quarter desert & for good measure, completed an unsupported trek across Iceland by foot and pack-raft. It’s no wonder that he was the 2012 National Geographic Traveler of the Year, and Geographic Magazine calls him “Slightly bonkers but this a wonderful thing”, Alastair Humphreys from AlastairHumphreys.com and author of 10 books, including the latest My Midsummer Morning. Check out the full show notes

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0:00.0	For example, I didn't want a big sign saying,
0:02.8	very bad Buska trying to walk across Spain,
0:05.2	because that felt me a bit like begging.
0:07.2	I wanted to be earning my money.
0:09.2	The extra pack of this.
0:13.6	The Extra Pack of Peanuts Travel Podcast.
0:17.0	Episode 379.
0:20.3	Opened in 1725, so Brino de Bodine in Madrid is the oldest continuously running restaurant in the world.
0:30.0	And even crazier is the fact that the wood fire in the oven has been burning since they first opened and never been put out.
0:41.0	Today's guest, Alistair, proves that you can travel around the world without a lot of stuff, including money.
0:48.0	But there's one thing that's very hard to travel around the world without and that is a piece of luggage and before I became a quote-unquote
0:55.9	professional traveler I traveled around the world with all different types of luggage usually it was
1:00.3	really crappy rolling suitcases that I would buy at
1:03.0	TJ Max or Target or home goods or one of those stores and
1:07.2	inevitably they would break and I would be left lugging around a 50 pound
1:11.0	basically weight because the wheel would break off or the handle would pop off or something crazy and it really really sucked
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