Episode #107 - Deanna McGregor (Mary Poppins)
Mighty Blue On The Appalachian Trail: The Ultimate Mid-Life Crisis
Steve Adams
4.8 • 599 Ratings
🗓️ 4 October 2018
⏱️ 75 minutes
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Summary
This is a kind of crossover episode that keeps many of the "usual" parts of the Mighty Blue show but incorporates and transitions us over to the Camino show. Deanna McGregor hiked the Camino in 2017 as a truly spiritual experience and returned this year with her sons, 12-year-old Daniel and 16-year-old Jonathan.
We speak twice with Deanna; once prior to her setting out, when she tells us about her evolution as a hiker and her experiences on the Camino last year.
Once she had returned from this year's trip we caught up with her again as she reflected upon how the journey with her two boys had transpired. Needless to say, there were significant differences.
You can follow this year's hike with Deanna on her YouTube channel at https://www.youtube.com/user/LupeShoes
Also on the show, we have Dan Richards, CEO of Global Rescue. I'd originally intended to interview somebody about insurance available to hikers, as I'm aware that this is a regular topic of discussion for some people. Dan turned out to easily cover that base, even though he isn't an insurance guy. What Global Rescue do turned out to be far more interesting than just boring old insurance. Check out the website at https://www.globalrescue.com/
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | You are listening to the Hiking Radio Network, where we talk the walk with shows by hikers about hikers for everybody. I bet a few of you did a bit of a double take when that music came on, didn't you? |
| 0:42.8 | Don't worry, you've still downloaded Mighty Blue on the Appalachshan Trail, and this is still me, Mighty Blue. |
| 0:48.3 | And yes, this is episode number 107 of the show, and it follows a very similar pattern to the normal shows, |
| 0:54.0 | that there are differences. |
| 0:55.7 | And the reason for those differences is that the day that this show is released, Thursday, |
| 1:00.4 | I'll be flying away from the US for about four and a half months |
| 1:03.4 | and it isn't really practical for me to do the show in the way that I normally do it. |
| 1:07.7 | However, this show still has a guest and she is a lovely guest. This week we have |
| 1:12.4 | Diana McGregor and Deanna was recorded in two separate conversations. The first was back in May on |
| 1:18.8 | in fact the very day that Deanna was flying, much like me, to Europe to hike the Camino de San Diego |
| 1:24.1 | in Spain. She'd already hiked the Camino last year in fact, and she had found |
| 1:28.5 | it to be a very powerful experience. This year she was going to be sharing the Camino with her two |
| 1:33.0 | youngest sons, Daniel and Jonathan, respectively 12 and 16 years old. So this first interview is about |
| 1:39.8 | a hiking life to date, her thoughts on her impending hike, and a few words about her friendship and |
| 1:45.0 | kind of collaboration with America's hiking sweetheart, Dixie. I held back this interview because |
| 1:51.3 | I wanted to hear how the hike with the boys turned out, and as I said, I wanted it to be the |
| 1:55.7 | introductory episode to my own Camino journey, which starts on October the 10th. Sandwiched between the two conversations with Deanna, |
| 2:02.6 | I have something of an answer to one of the main questions I'm asked. |
| 2:06.0 | What insurance and associated options are available to hikers and climbers, |
| 2:10.0 | and in fact others involved in potentially dangerous situations all over the world? |
| 2:14.8 | This conversation with Dan Richards of Global Rescue came out of an initial |
| 2:18.3 | chat I had with a young woman at the outdoor retailer's summer market in Denver and after |
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