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The Atlas Obscura Podcast

Extreme Travel with Dave Seminara

The Atlas Obscura Podcast

SiriusXM Podcasts & Atlas Obscura

Society & Culture, Places & Travel

4.61.6K Ratings

🗓️ 16 February 2022

⏱️ 15 minutes

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Summary

Host Dylan Thuras speaks with Dave Seminara, author of the book Mad Travelers, about extreme travel and the people who love it.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Let me tell you about a guy named Don Parish.

0:05.6

Don Parish is an extreme traveler.

0:08.3

It started when he was little.

0:10.6

Like a lot of kids, Don had a stamp collection.

0:14.0

And the more stamps he collected, the more interested he became in where the stamps came

0:17.6

from.

0:18.6

And by the time he was eight years old, he could look at any stamp and immediately tell

0:22.4

you what country it was from.

0:26.5

Don is now 77.

0:28.8

And instead of stamps, he collects countries.

0:32.2

In an average year, Don visits over a dozen of them.

0:36.0

He's been every continent, you know, Asia, Czech and Artica, Czech.

0:41.2

And he's racked up more than five million air miles, five million.

0:50.4

And for a while, Don was ranked number one on a list of the world's most traveled

0:56.3

people.

0:58.4

There's a list.

0:59.6

And Don Parish isn't the only person on it.

1:01.9

He's certainly not the world's only extreme traveler.

1:05.2

And the list he was ranked on isn't even the world's only extreme travel leaderboard.

1:11.8

These extreme travel groups all work in pretty much the same way.

1:15.6

They divide the world into pieces, first by country, and then by regions, like states

1:21.6

or provinces.

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