Active Travel Adventures podcast I Inspiring Multi-Day Adventure Trips Around the World

Kit interviews Tracy Pawelski, author of One Woman's Camino and her recently released One Woman in the Himalayas, about her Annapurna Circuit trek in Nepal.

Not everything went as planned. We discuss her trials and tribulations, and how adventure travel in general often goes awry, but that's ok. The best travel stories come from the unexpected.

We learn about the Annapurna Circuit, and hear Tracy's story about how she got into long distance hiking when she walked the El Camino del Santiago in Spain with her daughter, followed by Scotland's West Highland Way with her husband.

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Explore three amazing African countries by foot and safari jeep on today's episode.

In addition to a typical jeep safari, we hike and track game with an expert guide in Botswana, and also paddle the delta in a traditional dug out canoe. The tour even heads to Zimbabwe to see Victoria Falls!

We explore South Africa and Cape Town and seek the Big 5, and learn that it doesn't take very long with the vast number of animals populating the Kruger National Park region!

If you climb Kilimanjaro, be sure to allow time to tour Ngorongoro Crater and the Serengeti, especially if you can time if for the mass migration of wildebeests, zebras and more!

We learn what it's like to go on a hiking and traditional safari in this inspiring adventure!

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Train For Your Adventure Ask Becki at Trailblazer Wellness to customize an at home, online personal training program for your upcoming adventure using whatever equipment you already have! You'll get phone consultations, instruction videos and a plan to give you the best chance of success. Becki offers a FREE initial phone consultation to see if you are a good fit. AND she offers ATA listeners a 10% discount!

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076 Hike and Kayak Iceland!

Kit interviews Brad about his amazing Iceland adventure where he hiked the rugged landscape to see waterfalls and cave dwellings, he glacier hiked in crampons, and kayaked among icebergs in this land of Fire and Ice. It's a magical adventure travel destination you're sure to add to your Bucket List!

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Today we conclude the "Sophie Diaries" about what it was like to take a six week road trip during the pandemic this summer.

Kit makes it out west, hikes and bikes historic trails like the Natchez Trace, the Trail of Tears, the Pony Express and Route 66 as she covers her road trip from North Carolina to Wyoming - with an unexpected and abrupt ending.

Learn what it's like to travel now, what she's learned and some cool places she visited that you may want to add to your future travel list.

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Kit Parks Host of the Active Travel Adventures and the Adventure Travel Show podcasts

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Kit continues her multi-state camper van road trip during the pandemic. Learn what it's like to travel now, what she's learned and some cool places she visited that you may want to add to your future travel list.

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https://activetraveladventures.com/roadtrip/

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Travel Insurance: Quickly and easily compare rates and policies from different companies - no need to give any identifying information unless you decide to buy! The best way to find the right policy for your adventures.

Train For Your Adventure Ask Becki at Trailblazer Wellness to customize an at home, online personal training program for your upcoming adventure using whatever equipment you already have! You'll get phone consultations, instruction videos and a plan to give you the best chance of success. Becki offers a FREE initial phone consultation to see if you are a good fit. AND she offers ATA listeners a 10% discount!

Buy Me a Beer Want to support the program? You can always buy me a coffee or beer - thanks!

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What's it like to go on a road trip during the pandemic? In today's show, Kit and her camper van 'Sophie' take to the road to find out. You'll learn what went right and wrong on her trip, and lessons learned. You'll hear about some amazing places to explore, especially State Park gems, as Kit works her way West from NC on her six week adventure.

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https://activetraveladventures.com/roadtrip/

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Travel Insurance: Quickly and easily compare rates and policies from different companies - no need to give any identifying information unless you decide to buy! The best way to find the right policy for your adventures.

Train For Your Adventure Ask Becki at Trailblazer Wellness to customize an at home, online personal training program for your upcoming adventure using whatever equipment you already have! You'll get phone consultations, instruction videos and a plan to give you the best chance of success. Becki offers a FREE initial phone consultation to see if you are a good fit. AND she offers ATA listeners a 10% discount!

Buy Me a Beer Want to support the program? You can always buy me a coffee or beer - thanks!

Amazon Kit's Picks Please use my Amazon link to access your Amazon account. Even if you don't purchase any of my recommendations, I get credit for anything you DO purchase - at no additional cost to you, you'll be helping to support the show and keeping it AD FREE:)

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The 'Summer of Kit' road trip in 'Sophie', Kit's new-to-her converted Sprinter camper van concludes, but she forgot about lack of internet access to produce new episodes while she traveled. Today we discuss the new schedule.

Be sure to check in with Kit to let her know how YOUR summer went during this crazy time!

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Travel Insurance: Quickly and easily compare rates and policies from different companies - no need to give any identifying information unless you decide to buy! The best way to find the right policy for your adventures.

Train For Your Adventure Ask Becki at Trailblazer Wellness to customize an at home, online personal training program for your upcoming adventure using whatever equipment you already have! You'll get phone consultations, instruction videos and a plan to give you the best chance of success. Becki offers a FREE initial phone consultation to see if you are a good fit. AND she offers ATA listeners a 10% discount!

Buy Me a Beer Want to support the program? You can always buy me a coffee or beer - thanks!

Amazon Kit's Picks Please use my Amazon link to access your Amazon account. Even if you don't purchase any of my recommendations, I get credit for anything you DO purchase - at no additional cost to you, you'll be helping to support the show and keeping it AD FREE:)

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Is Contact Tracing the way to open up travel again?

Explore the pros and cons of contact tracing and exposure notification, and how it may help us travel again in a Covid world.

Today's Bonus Episode brings Mary Charleson from CarryOnQueen.com and FiveMinuteMarketing.com and Barbara Cameron of BarbaraCameronPix.com.

We define contact tracing, the differences between manual and digital tracing, the pros and cons of contact tracing versus exposure notification, we discuss privacy issues, centralized vs decentralized methods, the problems of having a hodgepodge of strategies, and Google and Apples joint ventureto offer exposure notification to the world.

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See the complete Show Notes, get Mary and Barb's web and social links and read the Google/Apple Exposure Notification API for yourself HERE.

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Train For Your Adventure Ask Becki at Trailblazer Wellness to customize an at home, online personal training program for your upcoming adventure using whatever equipment you already have! You'll get phone consultations, instruction videos and a plan to give you the best chance of success. Becki offers a FREE initial phone consultation to see if you are a good fit. AND she offers ATA listeners a 10% discount!

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Roundup Interview with Adventure Travel Industry Leaders

Bonus Episode #6

In March 2020 at the beginning of the lockdown, Kit interviewed three industry leaders to find out what was happening on the ground, how they were dealing with the crisis, and what advice they would give us adventure travelers.

Today's show is a follow up three months later to see what they've learned, what they expect we will see for the next twelve months onward, and advice for travel in the future.

See the key takeaways regarding Covid travel advice

and get the complete SHOW NOTES HERE.

Expert Guest Panel

• Wendy van Lieshout, CEO of Active Adventures from New Zealand
  • Active Adventures offers Bucket List adventures across the globe and will be starting US tours in 2020
• Dan Austin, Founder of Austin Adventures in Billings, Montana
  • Austin Adventures offers domestic and international adventure tours geared to both 'families' and 'adult only'.
• Jim Johnson, Founder of BikeTours.com in Chattanooga, TN
  • BikeTours.com caters to US and Canadian bike lovers who want to explore Europe on cycle tours, both guided and self-guided. 'Bike the South' USA-based themed cycle tours will be on offer soon.

Kit and her camper van, "Sophie" will be touring parts of the US. You can follow their adventures in the private Active Travel Adventures Facebook Group, which is also a great place to ask questions and to let us know what adventures you are up to this summer. Ask to join HERE.

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Travel Insurance: Quickly and easily compare rates and policies from different companies - no need to give any identifying information unless you decide to buy! The best way to find the right policy for your adventures.

Train For Your Adventure Ask Becki at Trailblazer Wellness to customize an at home, online personal training program for your upcoming adventure using whatever equipment you already have! You'll get phone consultations, instruction videos and a plan to give you the best chance of success. Becki offers a FREE initial phone consultation to see if you are a good fit. AND she offers ATA listeners a 10% discount!

Buy Me a Beer Want to support the program? You can always buy me a coffee or beer - thanks!

Amazon Kit's Picks Please use my Amazon link to access your Amazon account. Even if you don't purchase any of my recommendations, I get credit for anything you DO purchase - at no additional cost to you, you'll be helping to support the show and keeping it AD FREE:)

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Other Links mentioned in the show:

• Austin Adventures "Travel in a Covid World" webinar – Register HERE
• Austin Adventures "Essential Employee" Yellowstone Contest Nomination link
• Contact Tracing Bonus Episode (available July 16, 2020)
• The companion Adventure Travel Show podcast
• SUBSCRIBE to the ACTIVE TRAVEL ADVENTURES podcast HERE
• SUBSCRIBE to the ADVENTURE TRAVEL SHOW podcast HERE

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