On this week’s episode of Out of Office: A Travel Podcast, Kiernan and Ryan each share 3 travel-related New Year’s resolutions in reverse order of ambition. Plus, an analysis of a new Rick Steves’s interview about the Great Europeans Outdoors!

Things we talked about in today’s podcast:

“How Rick Steves Got Hooked on Hiking” in Outside Magazine

https://www.outsideonline.com/outdoor-adventure/hiking-and-backpacking/rick-steves-hiking-mont-blanc/ 

National capitals

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_national_capitals 

New River Gorge

https://www.nps.gov/neri/index.htm 

Jonglez “Secret” guides

https://jonglezpublishing.com/product-category/secret-guides/ 

“Unsettling Truth about the ‘Mostly Harmless’ Hiker” in WIRED

https://www.wired.com/story/unsettling-truth-mostly-harmless-hiker/ 

“Pompeii Still Has Buried Secrets” in the New Yorker

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2021/11/29/pompeii-still-has-buried-secrets?source=search_google_dsa_paid&gclid=Cj0KCQiA_c-OBhDFARIsAIFg3exm9hMVCb-4PWiMylwJ7nVJjve_WwCEnq5nJ5lRchfjrZOdadO59YwaAn8gEALw_wcB