Tom Turcich

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🗓️ 12 November 2024

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Tom Turcich: Old Fashioned (bitters, sugar, whiskey with cherry and orange rind garnish) Tom walked 28,000 miles around the world with his dog and a converted stroller filled with supplies, then wrote a book that records his adventures and reflections. In terrific travel-writing style he reveals his encounter with a pervert before he managed even to walk outside the USA, his strange difficulty at the border with Mexico (going south), his experience with COVID on the Caspian Sea, his favorite moment of the entire seven-year walk, and his surprising revelation about the desirability of travel for a good life.

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0:41.3	Welcome to Dedicated. I'm your host Doug Brunt. Today we're with Tom Tersich. Tom spent seven years
0:47.0	walking around the world. He covered 28,000 miles and six continents. And then he came back
0:53.1	and wrote a terrific book about all of it so that
0:56.2	we in the safety of our little homes can get at least a taste of his mind-expanding
1:01.6	adventures and his harrowing experiences, some of which were life-threatening, several were.
1:07.8	And Tom, I'm so excited to talk to you about all of this. Welcome to the show.
1:11.2	Thanks for having me. And I'm very happy with the cocktail choice, too, the old-fashioned. So as we get going, I'll start with that. Yeah, it's a classic. I figured, you know, I can't go wrong with an old-fashioned, keep it simple. And we have an engagement to celebrate I just learned as well. Yeah, exactly one week ago. I proposed to my now
1:29.2	fiancee in Paris, and so I surprised her with a flight out of the blue. She thought we were going
1:35.5	to the Jersey Shore or something like that, and we got to the gate, and she saw Paris on there.
1:40.4	And yeah, I proposed to her under the Eiffel Tower, and then we went out.
1:45.1	I had some great trout from the Pyrenees and some champagne.
1:50.1	And it was a fantastic six days there.
1:52.6	She's an emergency medicine resident, and so she works all the time.
1:56.9	So it was like this big, it took a lot to get her these days off and it was, it worked out
2:02.2	very well. Very romantic. Now, I, this is the woman from the back of the book. Correct. Yeah,
2:07.5	yeah. Yeah, met her in Washington in a little town and then in the book it goes into it. But yeah,
2:12.8	she kind of followed me around and we just hit it off right away. And it's kind of thing where, you know,
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