Hey folks, we are going to do something a little bit different today.

This episode will be in two parts.

First we are going to re-air an episode that is very dear to me in which I travel across

the country and talk with some special guests who I know very well.

All about road trips, about travel, and about what it means to travel as you age.

Then in the second half, there is a sponsored bonus conversation that's also about road trips

and electric vehicles that I had with none other than astrophysicist Neil DeGrasse Tyson.

So stay tuned for that.

Now onto the show.

Hey everybody, welcome to today's episode of Outlooks Obscura.

And today we're going to do something that we once in a while do, which is instead of

telling you about a specific place, we try to answer a question from you, the audience,

or sometimes it's posed to me by a colleague.

We're going to talk about a pretty deep question, about travel, about life.

And this question, the thing that sparked this episode, was asked by my colleague, Camille.

Camille asked me if there was anything on my travel list that I was saving for a particular

moment in my life.

And Camille, if you thought you could ask me a simple travel question, without it turning

into some kind of vast existential, uh, quandary of how growing old you underestimate me.

I'm Dylan Therese and this is Outlooks Obscura, a celebration of the world's strange, incredible

and wondrous places.

And in this Q&A episode, I'm talking about travel, aging, and to some very special people

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