Summary
When Erden Eruç set off to circumnavigate the globe, rowing alone across three oceans, he didn’t know just how much the trip would change him – and his relationships with his friends, family and wife. The story of an epic journey by bike, foot, and boat. And of what is, perhaps, the biggest challenge of all: coming home.
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| 0:00.0 | From The Independent Producer Project and KCRW.com, I'm Bob Carlson, and this is Unfictional, |
| 0:08.0 | a program of true stories, personal documentaries, and radio movies. |
| 0:15.0 | There have always been the epic adventurers, |
| 0:20.0 | a type of person for whom athletic competition or endurance challenges are just not enough. |
| 0:26.0 | Their achievements can only be spoken of in monumental terms. |
| 0:31.0 | We should never ever give up. |
| 0:35.6 | A swim over a hundred miles long. |
| 0:39.3 | Or a jump from the stratosphere. |
| 0:40.6 | I won't see what I can see. |
| 0:45.0 | Or a trip alone across three oceans by rowboat. |
| 0:50.0 | God damn it and it is the same goddamn game this ocean has been playing with me since October. |
| 0:57.0 | I don't know where I'm going. I don't know when this is going to end. I don't know. I don't know. I don't know. I don't know I don't know. |
| 1:03.0 | That's the voice of Turkish American Airden Arush |
| 1:07.0 | who became the first person to ever travel completely around the earth alone |
| 1:12.0 | and under his own power. |
| 1:14.0 | Cycling, hiking, but especially rowing. |
| 1:18.0 | He set a lot of rowing records and the expedition took him five years overall, including breaks for |
| 1:24.4 | weather, rest, and healing. But incredibly his trip was only a part of a completely |
| 1:29.6 | different expedition, which is still going on. He wants to climb the highest peaks of all six continents. He has three so far. |
| 1:38.0 | Most expeditions on this largest scale are bankroll by major sponsors, usually some energy drink or a clothing label, |
| 1:45.2 | and the adventurer is followed by media and video and support boats. |
| 1:49.4 | But when he was out on the ocean, Erirdon Arush traveled alone, and he used his own money to pay for the trip. |
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