Where To Go & When w/ Sherry Ott

Extra Pack of Peanuts Podcast Where To Go & When w/ Sherry Ott

  In her 11 years of living nomadically, she’s circled the globe multiple times visiting all 7 continents. She lived in Vietnam, hiked the Annapurna Circuit with her father, finished the 10,000-mile Mongol Rally, walked the Camino de Santiago, kayaked in Antarctica, herded reindeer in the Arctic, and drove an auto-rickshaw across India.

While quarantining in her home in Denver – she used her time to work on a new Ebook, Where to Go, and When. The book provides inspirational ideas of where to travel each month (for when we can travel again). For each month she chose 3 destinations to satisfy different travel styles (epic adventure, domestic trip, and an international trip or festival) with a short overview of the interesting, cool and quirky things to do there. The destinations were chosen based on trips Sherry has actually done over her 14 years as a travel blogger. My good friend and incredible writer and photographer – one of the OG’s of travel blogging – Sherry Ott from Ottsworld.com.

What is your favorite place to go in a specific month? Let us know by tagging us in a post on Instagram at @ExtraPackofPeanuts.

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In This Episode

  • 05:20 Homebasing After Being Nomadic For 11 Years
  • 12:00 How Fast Was She Moving As A Digital Nomad
  • 17:25 Do You Still Want The New Places Or The Comforts Of Places You’ve Been
  • 19:15 How The Pandemic Has Affected Sherry’s Life & The Positives Of It All
  • 25:45 Exploring The West Via Road Trips
  • 33:30 Flirting & Planning For Future Travels
  • 36:30 Where To Go & When Travel Book
  • 38:50 Travel By Month
  • 42:00 Destinations That Are Surprising & Fun
  • 50:30 Lesser-Known Options & Trusting Advice From People Who Have Been There
  • 57:30 Save & Splurge: What Do You Save On & What Do You Splurge On
  • 01:05:30 Biggest Travel Mishap

 

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The Science of Adventure with Jon Levy

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Nothing good happens after 2 am – except the most epic experiences of your life!

Jon Levy explains how, by using science (yes, SCIENCE!) he went from being a nerd – before nerds were cool – to spending Thanksgiving at Kiefer Sutherland’s house, hosting dinner parties for some of the world’s most interesting people, and narrowly escaping death while running with the bulls.

His new book, The 2 AM Principle: Discover the Science of Adventure changed my mindset about adventure after about 10 minutes of reading! It’s a must-read for those of us in love with travel and adventure!

What was your most recent adventure? Let me know @ExtraPackofPeanuts!!

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In This Episode

  • 03:00 How to fly cheaper on a private jet than a commercial airline
  • 08:32 New things change your brain. It’s science!
  • 15:00 Giving up your opinion of how you look to someone who knows better than you.
  • 21:00 How the influencers dinner began.
  • 32:00 The equation for adventure.
  • 51:55 Expectations and reality
  • 55:08 Crashing a party with proper etiquette & being invited to Kiefer Sutherland’s Thanksgiving

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Hope For The Sold with Jared Brock, Part 1

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Jared Brock is a man who loves to travel.

Preparing for today’s interview was a piece of cake. I mean, when you’re talking to a man who’s met the Pope, walked on hot coals, and taught himself how to film his own documentary, things just kinda fall into place!

In part 1 of this interview, we discuss his documentary, Red Light Green Light, how Jared became a traveler, and how he got a book deal to travel 37,000 miles exploring religion and prayer.

And of course, we get a hilarious story that happens to have helped with that particular book deal.

I mean, how could there not be one!

Tune back in on Thursday for Part 2 of the interview where we discuss some of the crazier exploits of his journey around the world including visiting North Korea, an “Eco” farm in Costa Rica, and much, much more.

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In This Episode:

  • 06:00 How travel entered Jared’s life.
  • 10:00 Hope for the Sold.
  • 17:40 Creating the Red Light Green Light documentary.
  • 24:43 A year of living Prayerfully – 37,000 miles around the world to explore religion & prayer.
  • 25:44 Spending Passover with a Rabbai and his disciples, and leaving them in the dark…
  • 27:00 Sample chapters & getting published.
  • 33:23 The locations he traveled to for his book.

and much more!

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The Lost City of Z with David Grann

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The legendary city of “El Dorado”, the ultimate discovery. Percy Fawcett, a renowned explorer of his time, set out on his search for the “Lost City of Z” as he had nicknamed it. After barely surviving several exploratory expeditions he tried once more in the mid 1920s.

And was never seen again.

“The Lost City of Z: A Tale of Deadly Obsession in the Amazon” by David Grann sheds some light on what happened to this legendary explorer, and is one of my favorite books about travel.

In Part II of my interview with David Grann, we delve into the adventures that made up the book and some of the trials and tribulations he encountered while trying to track down this lost explorer around the globe and into the depths of the Amazon.

David’s story is fascinating on so many levels, and truly inspires the adventurer in all of us.

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In This Episode:

  • Finding the map of Fawcett’s actual path.
  • Telling his wife that he was going after this crazy adventurer.
  • Getting permission to visit the territories of these tribes.
  • Finding a folk tale of Faucet among the local tribes.
  • His new project about the Osage Nation.

and much more!

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A Journalist in Search of a Giant Squid with David Grann

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He’s the first to say it, he’s no adventurer.

And yet somehow he’s found himself tracking down Giant Squid in the middle of the night during a hurricane on the ocean and trekking through the wilds of the Amazon in search of a legendary explorer who went missing in the 1920s.

The author of The Lost City of Z (one of my favorite books) and The Devil and Sherlock Holmes, David Grann.

Today he joins us to talk about how he got his start as a journalist and how he’s experienced some crazy adventures in pursuit of his stories.

Because even if you’re not looking for adventure, sometimes it comes looking for you.

This is part one of a two-part interview. Check back tomorrow for part II.

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In This Episode:

  • His journey to becoming a writer.
  • The news story that led him down his long-form path.
  • Where his ideas come from.
  • Some of the troubles he’s landed in on his research trips.
  • Being caught in the middle of a hurricane, in the middle of the night on a boat.

and much more!

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Big thanks to @DavidGrann for coming on and sharing some of his great adventures! Looking forward to part II!→ http://bit.ly/10UbOsH #travel

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