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Extra Pack of Peanuts Travel Podcast

Greatest Hits: From An Office To An Adventure w/ Otto Ecroyd

Extra Pack of Peanuts Travel Podcast

Travis Sherry

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

4.6890 Ratings

🗓️ 28 July 2021

⏱️ 77 minutes

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Summary

Joining me today is someone who once tried to sail from Norway to France and failed, who decided to ride a bike 5,000 miles from Alaska to Mexico but didn’t know how to change a tire, and who has gotten lost, stuck, and confused in more countries than he can count, Otto Ecroyd, author of Northbound and Down.  Today's podcast is sponsored by Oregon State University ECampus. What long-distance adventure are you wanting to conquer? Let us know by tagging us in a post on Instagram at @ExtraPackofPeanuts. In This Episode 03:00 Learning On The Go 04:05 Leveling Up & Where It All Started 09:45 Wanting To Do It To Actually Doing it 15:30 Alaska Adventure 19:30 Falling Forward & Planning At The Same Time 23:20 Am I Gonna Quit? 27:55 Being So Remote  30:35 Differences & Similarities Between All The Locations 35:55 Gear Used & Tossed Along The Way 40:40 Timeframe & End Date 44:25 The Longest Stretches 46:30 Biggest Lessons Learned 48:50 Post Trip Life 55:50 No Rules Needed 56:30 Learning About Writing & Publishing A Book 59:30 Unexpected Highlights & Biggest Mishap   Important Links Find Otto's book Northbound & Down Today's podcast is sponsored by Oregon State University ECampus. Location Indie Want to follow our lives & adventures? Check out our Instagram's @ExtraPackOfPeanuts, @HeatherSherry, @TravelingWhitMyles, and @HaddieBean   Want More? Epic Trips & Micro-Adventures w/ Alastair Humphreys Adventures Big & Small w/ Alastair Humphreys Where To Go & When w/ Sherry Ott

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0:00.0

Summer Summer time

0:03.0

As I'm recording this it's summer and growing up I always loved summer because it meant that I wasn't in school

0:10.0

and it wasn't that I disliked school. I actually liked school all throughout my educational career.

0:15.6

But what I didn't really like about school and life was that they seem like two disparate things.

0:21.6

It was always like you're either in school

0:23.8

and it's go, go, go, and it's the school year,

0:26.0

and there's just no time for anything else

0:27.5

to live your life, or it's summer,

0:29.8

and there's no school at all.

0:31.7

And I just really wished, even as a young kid growing up that it was that

0:36.7

the that the blend it was more blended you know the lifestyle was more blended and that school was a part of your life but it

0:44.2

wasn't like the only thing in your life or not in your life at all and little did I

0:48.6

know that you know fast forward 25 years there be so many online learning experiences that

0:54.8

allowed you to live your life and be able to still get your degree and one of them,

0:58.4

the one that we love Oregon State e-campus. They have over 85 programs online that you get to do all online. They have

1:07.0

amazing student stories like Lucretia Lobustol. She turned her van, as you know, we love

1:11.7

van life, into a home toward the country visiting archaeological sites, museums,

1:16.5

while earning an anthropology degree. And they have all types of programs that are going to fit what you want.

1:24.3

Whether that be a bachelor's degree,

1:25.5

or whether that be an advanced degree,

1:27.3

you could check it out over at e-campus.orgonstate.

1:30.1

E-DU slash peanuts.

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