LOTB Preview - Life Outside of the Box Series - Life on the Road Chile to Alaska in a VW Bus - Ben Jamin
Adventure Sports Podcast
Curt Linville
4.6 • 580 Ratings
🗓️ 31 May 2018
⏱️ 10 minutes
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Summary
Here's a nice little preview for our brand new Life Outside the Box series! Ben Jamin joins us to share with us his transformation from the 9-5 grind to a life on the road driving a Kombi (VW Bus) from Chile to Alaska. His trip took him 6 years! His plan was to pick up riders along the way who needed transportation and who were willing to help with the costs for food and fuel. Ben discovered that he could earn a living while on the road and is now planning to continue around the world. Check it out! It's a great story to get the LOTB inspiration flowing!
See more from Ben Jamin on his site at www.kombilife.com Make sure you check out his books when you're there too!
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| 0:00.0 | And so when I got this bus, the person I bought it from told me that it can only drive for two hours and then you have to sit and let it rest for half an hour, which probably should have been a good alarm bell for me. |
| 0:14.3 | But for some reason, I was just overwhelmed by this beautiful Volkswagen with all these windows around it. |
| 0:22.0 | This is a short preview episode of the Adventure Sports podcast, Life Outside the Box series, |
| 0:26.8 | brought to you by 180 Tech. If you've ever dreamed of an existence that doesn't include |
| 0:30.8 | 9 to 5 Mondays through Fridays and without cubicles or commutes, this series is your place to be |
| 0:35.8 | inspired and to learn that you too can live a life |
| 0:38.4 | outside the box. If you like what you hear and are wanting even more inspiration to do life |
| 0:43.0 | differently, consider signing up as a patron at patreon.com slash adventure sports podcast so you too |
| 0:48.5 | will have an all-access pass to these exclusive patron-only shows. Thanks for listening and enjoy this |
| 0:53.8 | preview of Life Outside the Box from the Adventure Sports podcast. Well, I did drive an old Volkswagen bus from Chile to Alaska. |
| 1:19.0 | It did take me about six years, and that was mainly because there was a lot of problems along the way, |
| 1:24.1 | and also because I was documenting the whole thing to share with people via |
| 1:28.0 | YouTube I feel like it's my responsibility to tell people that traveling is an option for everybody |
| 1:35.5 | they don't need to be worried about you know what might happen I mean obviously you need to be a |
| 1:41.5 | little bit cautious but you don but it shouldn't be something that |
| 1:45.9 | puts you off, and it's certainly not a showstopper. And, you know, I was actually escaping the |
| 1:50.9 | corporate box myself. I used to work a nine to five or more likely an eight to seven office job |
| 1:58.1 | when I was, you know, trying to make other people rich for no good reason. And I just |
| 2:02.9 | kind of thought, you know what, I'm going to go travelling and I'm going to do it because when I'm on |
| 2:08.2 | my deathbed, that is the one thing that I cannot regret. People want to make sure that you're leaving the country when you arrive. |
| 2:20.6 | And as I didn't have an outbound ticket from New Zealand, |
| 2:22.9 | I had to quickly, within a think about an hour, go and find an internet connection |
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