How To!: Plan Your Next Adventure
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🗓️ 3 February 2024
⏱️ 33 minutes
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Summary
Travel can be thrilling, relaxing, even life-changing. But planning for your big trip? Not so much. There are so many unknowns: Where to go? When is the best time? How much do you want to spend? In this special episode of How To!, founding host Charles Duhigg brings in Brady Binstadt, owner and CEO of the adventure travel company Geographic Expeditions. Brady explains how to pick the right destination, when to splurge, and how to make sure everyone will have an amazing time.
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| 0:00.0 | What are some of the craziest things that people have asked for? |
| 0:03.0 | You know, somebody asked for six Red Bulls every single day on their trip in Bhutan. |
| 0:08.0 | And it was like, I'm not booking the trip unless you can guarantee this. |
| 0:12.0 | There were no Red Bulls in Bhutan at the time and we figured it out. |
| 0:16.0 | Those are personal touches. We've had private meetings with the Dalai Lama in certain cases. |
| 0:22.0 | It takes us a lot of work sometimes to arrange it, |
| 0:24.8 | but it's ultimately worth it. Welcome to how to I'm Charles Doig. You might remember me as the first |
| 0:39.6 | host of how to and I'm also the author of a few books including the power of habit and a book that's coming out in February called super communicators. |
| 0:47.0 | How to unlock the secret language of connection. |
| 0:50.0 | And I'm back today to bring you a special episode on how to travel like a pro. |
| 0:56.0 | No matter if you're backpacking on a budget or planning a family vacation or checking off that bucketless |
| 1:01.2 | adventure, we've got tips for making your next travel |
| 1:03.7 | experience incredible. Our tour guide is Brady Binstadt. He's the CEO of Geo Expeditions or GeoX, |
| 1:11.3 | an adventure travel company famous for trips that can take you almost anywhere. |
| 1:16.9 | And though he literally has been around the world, what's interesting is that he didn't |
| 1:20.6 | catch the travel bug until adulthood. |
| 1:23.0 | What really kind of transformed my travel life was about a year and a half in southern Chile and |
| 1:28.8 | backpacking around South America in my early 20s. |
| 1:32.4 | A particular highlight for me was probably about two months |
| 1:35.6 | backpacking in Bolivia. You know I probably spent $500 in two months maybe and it was just |
| 1:42.4 | a tremendous sense of place and adventure |
| 1:44.6 | and not having a timetable, which is a huge luxury, |
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