Exploring the Open Road with Susan

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🗓️ 13 January 2025

⏱️ 36 minutes

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In this episode of Papa Bear Hikes, host Martin talks with Susan, a 69-year-old retired hairdresser, about her love for life on the road with her husband, Jim. Susan, who has lived in Florida four different times, shares her journey from Tennessee to Tampa as a child, along with her time spent in Atlanta. Now based in Oak Hill, she and Jim have embraced their passion for travel with their Class B Roadtrek Zion camper van.Over the past summers, they’ve covered an incredible 11,000 miles in one...

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0:00.0	So those of you who are maybe approaching retirement age, maybe you're retired, you're not sure what to do.
0:06.2	Maybe you're not into backpacking. Maybe you're not into long bike rides.
0:09.8	There are so many ways you can go out and enjoy the outdoors.
0:13.4	Today, we're going to talk to someone who took what I thought was the ultimate road trip
0:17.7	and really had an opportunity to enjoy what our nation offers us
0:22.4	in the outdoors. Who am I talking to today? Let's find out.
0:31.3	Today's guest is no stranger to hitting the road and embracing the beauty of travel.
0:35.4	Her and her husband Jim recently celebrated 37 incredible years of marriage together.
0:40.3	They've been living the dream, traveling the open road and their trusty Class B-RV.
0:46.3	Today she's here to share with us some inspiring stories and the beauty of this past summer's trip.
0:56.9	Susan, Ledford, Julian, welcome the pop of your hikes.
0:57.7	Thank you.
1:02.7	Susan, before we get into your road trip and these incredible places you visited,
1:04.4	tell us a little bit about yourself.
1:09.2	I spoke a little bit, but you tell us from your words, a little bit bit about you um i'm almost 70 like you said
1:13.1	um i'm a retired hairdresser my husband was a barber and this is my fourth time living in
1:21.1	florida um but we started traveling during COVID.
1:29.0	That was a popular thing to do.
1:32.5	And we had a van that we went in that was too small for my husband.
1:35.6	So we traded in for this class B that we have.
1:41.8	And this was our third year that we went, like this year, we went 11,000 miles.
1:45.7	Last year we went almost 5,000, 10,000 the year before.
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