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National Park After Dark

Swimming the Colorado River: Grand Canyon National Park

National Park After Dark

Danielle LaRock & Cassandra Yahnian

True Crime, Places & Travel, History, Society & Culture

4.6 • 5.8K Ratings

🗓️ 26 December 2022

⏱️ 66 minutes

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Summary

Join us this week as we follow two friends down the Colorado River. When they have limited funds to kayak or raft the river like most - Bill Beer and John Daggett decide to swim it instead. The guys are having the adventure of their lives - all while the park service has issued a massive rescue mission to find them. In their words, this is a cheap vacation that got a little out of hand. For the latest NPAD updates, group travel details, merch and more, follow us on npadpodcast.com and our socials:Instagram: @‌nationalparkafterdarkTikTok: @‌nationalparkafterdarkSupport the show by becoming an Outsider and receive ad free listening, bonus content and more on Patreon or Apple Podcasts. Want to see our faces? Catch full episodes on our YouTube Page!Thank you to this week’s partners!Apostrophe: Use our link and code NPAD to get for first visit for only $5.For a full list of our sources, visit http://npadpodcast.com/episodes Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Adventure in comes in so many forms. Some people take road trips across the country,

0:08.3

while others may hike a mountain nearby, and some might fly to a new place. Some people

0:13.7

adventure to find new cultures and people while others do it to find new landscapes.

0:19.3

Some people's adventures are extravagant with fine dining, beautiful hotels, and luxury

0:24.3

treatment. While others are just scraping by on the little money they have to explore,

0:29.7

saving each penny to sleep on the ground, stay in hostels, hitchhike, or couch surf to their

0:36.3

dream destinations. While having the financial means to travel can open up some really incredible

0:42.2

doors, travelers have proved time and time again that money isn't on everything, and sometimes

0:48.9

the lack of it brings you into situations you may have never encountered before, and can

0:54.3

make for some pretty legendary stories. Welcome to National Park After Dark.

1:21.0

You just gave me some flashbacks to some pretty rugged adventures of mine. I too have been

1:27.1

poor in traveling. It's not ideal when you're planning it, but once you're in it, man,

1:34.0

it's a good time. There have been some things I have done with

1:38.1

no money to travel and get to places. I'm happy I'm a little more financially stable now,

1:44.8

but I can remember times where people would ask me, they'd be like, how do you travel?

1:49.5

You don't have any money, and I'm like, yeah, I know, I didn't pay my car payment this

1:53.2

month, so I could buy a flight here, and then I'd be sleeping on the ground, or I'd be

1:58.8

in some hotel in the middle of Utah that costs like $20 a night. You know, like just like

2:04.4

these crazy. You just have to, I mean, when you're in situations like that, like I've

2:08.7

been at a couple questionable sleeping locations before. Same. And you just don't look too

2:15.1

closely at things. Don't look at the grow in the bathroom. Just like skim right over

2:19.7

that, bring some flip flops, so your feet aren't on the ground. Yep. And enjoy. Really,

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