Juan Pablo Villarino on Travel and Trust

Conversations with Tyler

Society & Culture, Education

4.8 • 2.4K Ratings

🗓️ 3 July 2018

⏱️ 61 minutes

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Summary

Travel writer Juan Pablo Villarino had visited 90 countries before making the trek to exotic Arlington, Virginia for this chat with Tyler. Amazingly enough, this recording marked his first trip to the mainland United States, which is now the 91st country in an ever-expanding list.

The world's best hitchhiker talks with Tyler about the joys of connecting with people, why it's so hard to avoid stereotypes (including of hitchhikers), how stamp collecting guides his trips, the darkest secrets of people he's gotten rides from, traveling and writing books with his wife, the cause of violence in the Americas, finding the emotional heart of a journey, where he's going next, and more.

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Recorded May 4th, 2018

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0:28.0	Today I am very honored to be with Juan Pablo Vijarino.
0:32.0	He is from Argentina, otherwise his name would be pronounced Vijarino.
0:36.3	I have now had over 40 conversations with different guests, but there is only one of them
0:41.5	I have envied, and that is Juan Pablo.
0:44.5	He has sometimes been called the world's greatest hitchhiker.
0:48.3	He also has a recent book.
0:50.3	He has four books.
0:51.4	The most recent now is out only in Argentina.
0:54.0	He is looking for a publisher in the United States.
0:56.9	He is called Hitchhiking in the Axis of Evil by Thumb through Iran, Iraq, and Afghanistan.
1:03.3	Juan Pablo, welcome.
1:04.3	Hi, Tyler.
1:05.3	Thanks a lot for the invitation.
1:07.3	Really honored to hear.
1:08.5	If you could just start by telling us, I mean, who are you and what have you been doing?
1:12.4	Okay, so I am a travel writer.
1:15.6	I have been busy on the last 13 years.
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