Episode #293 - Emanuel & Karen Bravo (Ema el Astronauta & Hungry Marmot)
Mighty Blue On The Appalachian Trail: The Ultimate Mid-Life Crisis
Steve Adams
4.8 • 599 Ratings
🗓️ 21 October 2021
⏱️ 75 minutes
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Summary
Our shows come together each week with a kind of serendipitous whimsey. This week's guests, Emanuel and Karen Bravo, wrote to me to share how they had prepared for the Sierras and eventual climbing of Mt Whitney.
Emanuel wanted to encourage me to go again and told me exactly how he did it and suggested I could be successful if I adopted his approach. I was intrigued, and invited both Emanuel and Karen on the show to share their story.
As you'll hear, they are an adventurous couple, with Emanuel coming up with the crazy ideas and Karen making them work! The perfect hiking couple!
If you'd like to see more of their journey, they have a YouTube movie that is in Spanish, but the spectacular scenery speaks for itself. Check that out at https://youtu.be/sTQqP0SXahc
You can also follow them on Instagram at https://www.instagram.com/ema_el_astronauta/
Katie is near the end of her AT journey–for this year. She's been out there for over seven months and feels that it is time to come home. The trail will still be there next year, and we're going to follow her all the way to the end.
Winton Porter's Passin Thru' provides an emotional, touching conversation between Winton and a lady he names "Lorac."
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | You are listening to the Hiking Radio Network, where we taught the walk with shows by hikers |
| 0:05.3 | about hikers for everybody. Mighty Blue on the Appalachian Trail, the ultimate midlife crisis, joins Steve and his guests every week as he staggers from Georgia to Maine. |
| 0:33.7 | Hi everybody, it's me again. Steve Adams on Mighty Blue. Here listening to my podcast. |
| 0:39.4 | This is Mighty Blue on the Appalachian Trail, the ultimate midlife crisis, where we hear from people who love hiking or have loved hiking over the years. |
| 0:47.1 | Some of them have a story about a triple crown adventure, while others like today's guests have written to me in sparked off a conversation that I like you all to hear. |
| 0:55.9 | Our guests today are a husband and wife team from Puerto Rico. They are Emmanuel and Karen |
| 1:00.6 | Bravo. Emmanuel, probably fed up with me bemoaning that I couldn't do the John Muir trail, |
| 1:07.3 | decided that I needed the proverbial kick-up the backside and sent me a detailed email as to how I could cope with everything a whole lot better. |
| 1:15.0 | As you're going to hear, Emmanuel is a man who loves life, a man who loves to laugh and a man who's been lucky enough to have found a woman in Karen who makes the perfect hiking partner for him. |
| 1:26.3 | You'll hear from this wonderful couple in a moment. |
| 1:29.3 | As you know last week, Katie is starting to wind down her hike of the Appalachian Trail for this year, |
| 1:34.5 | and she's really loving these final days. Luckily, she's been blessed with gorgeous fall weather, |
| 1:39.6 | and it looks like that great weather will hold as she approaches Damascus before heading home for the year. |
| 1:44.7 | I called up with her at Boots Off, a terrific hostel near Hampton, that everybody should try out |
| 1:49.5 | if they're doing this hike. Katie will be long after the Bravos. And finally today, |
| 1:55.2 | Winton Porter meets an older woman at Mountain Crossings, who confines in him. It's a tragic, touching and inspirational |
| 2:03.2 | chapter in Winton's book, Pass and Through. So let's get to it. Here are a very sweet |
| 2:09.0 | couple, straight from Puerto Rico. It's Emmanuel and Karen Bravo. Today we've got a couple from Puerto Rico on the show. |
| 2:19.9 | First time, I think. |
| 2:20.8 | This is Emmanuel and Karen Bravo. |
| 2:23.2 | Hey, guys. |
| 2:23.9 | How are you? |
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