Walking Around the World with Tom Turcich

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🗓️ 30 August 2022

⏱️ 33 minutes

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The day before his 26th birthday, Tom Turcich walked out the door of his home in Haddon Township, NJ. He was setting off to walk around the world. Four months into his trek, he adopted a dog, Savannah, to keep him company. The pair’s adventure was filled with highs and lows and lessons learned.

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0:00.0	That's what appealed to me about the walking was that I'm in it every day, whether it's
0:07.6	a place I want to be in or not and whether it's really hot or really cold or windy or if
0:13.5	it's dangerous or if it's somewhere I don't speak the language, I have to walk through
0:17.3	that place.
0:18.3	And I kind of wanted that, I wanted to be forced into adventure.
0:28.4	In 2015, Tom Tursich walked out the door of his home and had a township in New Jersey.
0:34.4	He was wearing a backpack and pushing a stroller, but there wasn't a baby inside.
0:40.2	Instead, the stroller was loaded with gear, a tent, a sleeping bag and pad, a water filter
0:46.4	and a camping cook set.
0:48.4	It was the day before his 26th birthday and Tom was setting out to walk all the way around
0:53.8	the world.
0:54.9	Now seven years later, Tom's returned home as the tenth person to cross the globe on
0:59.8	foot.
1:01.8	I'm Shelby Stanger and this is wild ideas worth living an REI co-op studios production.
1:10.8	Tom's journey spans six continents.
1:16.4	From New Jersey, it took him nearly two years to walk to Uruguay where he then took a boat
1:21.1	to Antarctica.
1:22.8	Then he crisscrossed his way around the UK, Europe and North Africa.
1:27.5	Five years into his journey, Tom was walking through Azerbaijan when COVID hit.
1:32.1	He decided to reroute.
1:34.0	After walking them through Kirkistan, he flew to Seattle in August of 2021.
1:39.5	It took another nine months to make it home to have a township.
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