Episode Description: The talented daughter of Peter and Carol van Stralen of Epic Family Road Trip (EFRT) and elder sister to The Adventure Guys, Pete Jr. and Dan van Stralen, Caroline van Stralen has been raised while overlanding around the world with her family. With the van Stralen family in town lending a hand at the hangar for a few days, X Overland Podcast host, Jimmy Lewis, decides to sit down with Caroline to discuss her life and overlanding and future aspirations and ambitions. 

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Caroline van Stralen Recommended Books: 

• Endurance: Shackleton’s Incredible Voyage by Alfred Lansing 
• Deep Survival by Laurence Gonzales 
• The World’s Great Adventure: 1,000 Years of Polar Exploration by Francis Trevelyan Miller
• High Adventure: The True Story of the First Ascent of Everest by Sir Edmund Hillary 
• The Dig Tree by Sarah Murgatroyd 
• Kon Tiki by Thor Heyerdahl 
• Strangers Like Angels: With a Devil or Two to Boot by Jan Foreman & Alec Foreman 
• An Arabian Journey by Levison Wood 
• Survival Guide for Life by Bear Grylls 
• Sand Dance by Bruce Kirkby 
• Seven Pillars of Wisdom by T.E Lawrence 

Movies/Documentaries: 

• The Wildest Dream: Conquest of Everest (2010) 
• The Secret Life of Walter Mitty (2013)
• Everest (2015)
• Mountain (2017)
• Maidentrip (2013) 
• Blood Diamond (2006)