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Extra Pack of Peanuts Travel Podcast

Guidebook Writing & The National Parks w/ James Kaiser

Extra Pack of Peanuts Travel Podcast

Travis Sherry

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

4.6890 Ratings

🗓️ 26 March 2019

⏱️ 66 minutes

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Summary

Joining me today is someone whose work has graced the cover of National Geographic, who has sold over 150,000 copies of his guidebooks, and who claims to have the best job in the world (I may argue this point), James Kaiser, award-winning travel writer and photographer from JamesKaiser.com.   Get The Full Show Notes Here

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And I just remember, you know, I was sort of lying in the ocean bobbing up and down, you know, looking at the palm trees and I was just thinking,

0:07.0

how can I get back here? What can I do to get back here? Could I write a guide to this place? Does this place need another guide?

0:14.0

And ultimately when I looked at what was out there and started thinking about it, I said,

0:18.0

you know what, I'm going to give it a shot.

0:20.0

The extra pack. This is the final goal for the main lots of gifts.

0:24.0

The Extra Pack of Peanuts Travel Podcast

0:27.0

episode three 57.

0:30.0

We all know that Maine is popular for lobster, but did you know that 90% of the US's entire

0:37.4

lobster supply comes from that small state up north? My question, where does the other 10% come from?

0:45.0

One of the things that I love about watching the Tortuga Backpack

0:52.5

brand grow over the last five to six years

0:55.2

is that they were one of the first brands

0:57.5

that really focused on building a bag

1:00.2

specifically for travelers. And what I mean by that is when I first

1:04.8

started traveling first started backpacking there were not many companies out

1:09.0

there that focused on travelers all the backpacks were focused on

1:12.0

hiking and camping and things like that, which is great if you're hiking and camping and doing things like that.

1:18.0

But not so great if you're looking just to travel around.

1:22.0

And so when Tortuga Backpacks came out,

1:24.1

I was absolutely thrilled because they made a pack

1:27.0

that was built for travelers, one that was not top loading,

1:30.5

you know, that you had to shove all your stuff in

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