In this episode, I catch up with Ryan Van Duzer of DuzerTV and YouTube fame, and no big surprise, it's a wild ride in a very good way. Inspiring people to get off their couches and explore this beautiful planet through his storytelling is Ryan van Duzer's passion

The conversation kicks off with a quick recap of a recent adventure down to the Copper Canyon in Mexico where Ryan had just participated in the Caballo Blanco Ultra Marathon event, which was the race featured in the book Born to Run by Christopher McDougall.

The discussion of adventures then turned to RAGBRAI, Ryan's mom and her amazing Priority electric-assist bike that has changed her life.

Additional topics, adventures, and content covered include:

RAGBRAI 2019

Taking mom to Burningman

Germany Christmas Market Trip

Baja Videos

Boston Standup Paddleboarding - Getting out of your comfort zone

Mentions:

- Clarence Eckerson, Jr. and Streetfilms
- PeopleForBikes
- Scott Jurek
- Barefoot Ted

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Credits:

All video and audio production by John Simmerman

Music:

Happy Sky by Briand A Melanson and Uplifting Forward Thinking by Jeppe Reil and Thomas Reil both via AudioBlocks.com

Resources used during the production of this episode:

- My awesome recording platform is Ecamm

- Adobe Creative Cloud Suite

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Background:

Hi Everyone, my name is John Simmerman.

I’m a health promotion professional with over 30 years of experience and my area of concentration has evolved into a specialization of how the built environment influences human behavior related to active living and especially active mobility.

In 2012 I launched the non-profit Advocates for Healthy Communities as an effort to help promote and create healthy, active places.

Since that time, I've been exploring, documenting, and profiling established, emerging, and aspiring Active Towns wherever they might be, in order to produce high-quality multimedia content to help inspire the creation of more safe and inviting, environments that promote a "Culture of Activity" for "All Ages & Abilities."

My Active Towns suite of channels feature my original video and audio content and reflections, including a selection of podcast episodes and short films profiling the positive and inspiring efforts happening around the world as I am able to experience and document them.

Thanks for tuning in; I hope you have found this content helpful.

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Advocates for Healthy Communities, Inc. is a nonprofit 501c3 organization (EIN 45-3802508) dedicated to helping communities create a Culture of Activity. To donate, click here.