Living Adventurously

Anna Ashfield describes herself as "a kind of can't-be-arsed girl (who is really a middle aged woman). If an opportunity to do something arises, I test it by thinking, "when I go to bed at night and the opportunity has passed, will I regret it?" Fear alone is not an excuse to say no. But, if I simply don't want to do it, that is the best reason of all to say no, not for me."
Anna sent me an email in response to one of my email newsletters about learning to live more adventurously (https://alastairhumphreys.com/living-adventurously/). She went on to tell me some amusing anecdotes about her attempts to encourage a bunch of her friends to sleep out on a microadventure once a month. 
We met for a cup of tea before I continued my ride, but then Anna wanted to show me her favourite wood, and then we went to the pub and then she and her husband John invited me for dinner and then to stay the night! Proper Yorkshire hospitality... 

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• Anna is on Instagram: @anna.ashfield
• I won't regret not washing the kitchen floor more often
• Both Buddhism and Royal Marine training are enquiries into the nature of suffering
• Childhood cancer - having a real purpose helped deal with it. It taught us that what we have in life is so precious.
• For the daughter, her recovery has made her more positive and make the most of opportunities
• There were, in fact, gifts that came from childhood illness
• I'm not allowed to say 'no' to anything if the reason is because I'm scared
• Fear alone is not an excuse to say no. But if I simply don't want to do it then I say no.
• The big decisions I've made in life tend to be gut decisions
• I joined the Royal Marines because I wanted to test myself against the best
• You often don't know the outcome of a decision you've made until you reflect on it much later in life
• Am I really as brave as I think I am?
• (As Anna's husband was a Royal Marine I feel that it's prudent for me to point out that when I asked Anna about her 'felted bottom' I was referring to a piece of artwork! 😂)

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Graham Wilson retired from the Police and is now on a mission to walk 120 marathons in 120 days (along with his dog, Tilly). The 120 marathons will cover 8 countries, 3 isles and cover a distance of 3180 miles - the equivalent of walking from Leeds to New York City.

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SHOW NOTES

• If you enjoy listening to this episode over a cup of coffee and think it might be worth the price, you can buy me a coffee here: www. ko-fi.com/al_humphreys
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• Say hello on Twitter and Instagram: @al_humphreys
• You can follow Graham online: https://120marathonman.org
• Got married at 21, had kids young: now I'm 52 and "it's my time now"
• It's not just about fitness - it's wanting to do a big adventure
• Adventure plans just grow once you have the kernel of an idea
• Fundraising - think of a massive number and go for it. Spurred on by the unknown element of it
• We know that at some point in the 120 days things will go wrong - it's about living with that and accepting it
• Living adventurously is about doing something different to the day to day
• If I could live my life over I'd have travelled more with the family

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Diana Page was raised by her soldier Grandfather and hippy Father in an unconventional upbringing for a little girl in the seventies.  A childhood that necessitated teaching herself self-reliance skills led to a university post-graduate education in Criminal Psychology and teaching at college.  Three children later, Di gave up academia to raise her children alone and off-grid in a remote North Yorkshire Dale. They had no heating, loo, or running hot water, living in a green painted caravan in a five acre field, they lived very simply using what was around them. 
Di now runs the Wild Harvest school of self-reliance.

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SHOW NOTES

• If you enjoy listening to this episode over a cup of coffee and think it might be worth the price, you can buy me a coffee here: www. ko-fi.com/al_humphreys
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• Wild Harvest school of self-reliance
• Unusual childhood with a soldier grandfather and a hippy father
• Basically left to her own devices as a child
• Peaked senses - the best part of living off the land. You're not blanketed by comfort
• You can hold your dream, and when you are ready you can live it
• Guilt at the separation between being indoors with central heating and what the weather is like outdoors
• Raising kids off-grid
• post grad in Decision Making in Sex Offending
• Permaculture - observe then accept feedback (closed loop system)
• I've had so many responsibilities for so long I just want to put on my backpack and walk

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Mike Sowden is a curious writer and he is a fantastic person to share ideas and bounce thoughts around with. Mike  describes himself online as an archaeology student turned writer and story geek, as well as a travelling disaster...

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SHOW NOTES

• If you enjoy listening to this episode over a cup of coffee and think it might be worth the price, you can buy me a coffee here: www. ko-fi.com/al_humphreys
• Keep up to date with future episodes (and my other adventures, projects and books) with my free monthly newsletter: alastairhumphreys.com/more/subscribe
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• It is easier to advise other people on their lives than to heed your own advice.
• Mike Sowden website and Twitter
• Living Adventurously newsletter
• Ideas are free - give them away for free but just try to do them better than everyone else
• My blog has been a series of failed experiments. But that is good because it gives me good feedback
• I like throwing ideas at the wall and learning that most (but not all) are rubbish
• On Looking - Alexandra Horowitz (Brainpicking post)
• Walking for a mile a day and writing about it
• Have a question, chase it, that leads you to more questions
• Inside of a dog - Alexandra Horowitz
• I would like to be a writer that people hear
• Brene Brown - taking people to a retreat to perform her book
• What was holding me back from becoming a writer was 75% my own insecurity
• You need to experiment with your life and test your boundaries
• You need to be selfish enough to look after yourself
• Desire Paths
• Interested in the idea of 'the inside' - as opposed to being outside
• The long dark computer game
• I'm interested in the way we have become addicted to online culture - social media has been gamified
• Everything Bad is Good for You: How Popular Culture is Making Us Smarter

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Clare Nattress and Matty Waudby cycled round the world together. Clare is a PhD Candidate Arts Researcher & Lecturer and an artist. Matty is an adventurous creative with a love for bicycles, camping and the great outdoors. He aims to create inspirational imagery that documents human interaction with nature and to show that there is always more than we realise outside the front door. (Matty created the funky logo for my podcast!) 

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SHOW NOTES

• If you enjoy listening to this episode over a cup of coffee and think it might be worth the price, you can buy me a coffee here: www. ko-fi.com/al_humphreys
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• @getwildmatty and @thetouringartist/
• Different perspectives and motives for cycling round the world together
• I wanted to go with no date and that was my end goal - to set off into the unknown
• Being a teacher - people suck your creativity, so I was not inspired myself as an artist
• Cycling RTW was about finding creativity again
• Odd jobs Matt v Career Claire. Interesting diff takes on all this
• Facing an adventure together when you both have the same mindset is easier
• I'm not an idiot, but I've done idiotic things. There is a difference
• Claire - only done a week's bikepacking in Scotland, then agreed to cycle RTW
• Coming back has been the hardest part. I've had to start from scratch with my career and that has been quite frustrating. 
• Going back to the same job afterwards it's hard
• Seeing different things is the best way to broaden your horizons and give you ideas to do things. You have a lot of time on the bike to mull things over.
• If you're a photographer you need to get off your bike and make the effort to take good photos.
• Not having a mileometer changes the vibe of a trip
• Matty's book / hats / embroidery
• Happiness and contentment are different things. Happiness should be saved for special occasions.
• Enough is learning to be content with what we have. And social media is a pain in the arse for that.

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You can see my ride’s route on komoot here.

Charlotte Evans, at 20 years old, was the youngest person I interviewed on my ride around Yorkshire. She describes herself on Twitter as a Notts County supporter, singer/songwriter, geographer and occasional radio producer from up North currently studying at the University of Nottingham.
I was interested to get a different perspective on things that I think I know well - the world of adventure, its accessibility (or not) to women, and the barriers that stop young women like Charlotte from travelling as widely as they may wish to do.

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SHOW NOTES

• If you enjoy listening to this episode over a cup of coffee and think it might be worth the price, you can buy me a coffee here: www. ko-fi.com/al_humphreys
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• Charlotte's music on Soundcloud
• Charlotte is a geographer who plays music, not the other way round
• I write music on a laptop, which isn't very poetic
• Failed music A-Level, which forced her to drop music which she was hoping to do for a career
• Fan of Billie Eilish
• Harvest Moon - Neil Young, written for people with tinnitus
• Failing music was the best bad thing that ever happened to me
• My main passion these days is geography
• Main barrier to living adventurously is herself
• Barriers for being a young woman wanting to travel - it's daunting. 
• Comparing to Lev Wood or Simon Reeve she sees that there's things she can't do because she's a young woman. But she also thinks you just need to find things way round it.
• The phases of life when you have money / or time
• Don't think too much; don't worry too much
• The luck of being born in a country like the UK, and the freedom that comes from it
• Nottingham Refugee Society
• If I could magically change one thing in my life I would... mend my oven

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You can see my ride’s route on komoot here.

'Yorkshire Rows' are four mums, friends, businesswomen who rowed 3000 miles across the Atlantic Ocean. The expedition resulted in an intriguing variety of outcomes: the same journey impacting on different personalities in very different ways. We talked about the perceived stigma of 'irresponsible mothers' swanning off on selfish adventures, about the struggle of life after huge adventures, and the differences in risk between running a business and rowing the Atlantic.
This was a wide-ranging, honest and really enjoyable chat. In the sunshine. With cake. 👍

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SHOW NOTES

• If you enjoy listening to this episode over a cup of coffee and think it might be worth the price, you can buy me a coffee here: www. ko-fi.com/al_humphreys
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• Yorkshire Rows website, Twitter and Four Mums in a Boat book
• Running business involves risk, but ocean rowing is a different sort of risk
• The difference in risk in business versus ocean rowing: losing your life, losing some cash
• I don't see myself as any sort of athlete, despite rowing the ocean and running a couple of marathons
• We shouldn't do this, but I always compare myself to other athletes. 
• "You're a middle-aged woman with a proper job - what on earth is someone like you rowing an ocean for?"
• I felt a little bit of my soul was dying. The years were merging into one.
• Rowing it Alone - book by Debra Searle
• 4 Mums rowing an ocean - people often think that is selfish
• My aim was always not to regret what I've done in life
• NY Design Agency - closes 1 year in 7 - TED talk about the power of time off
• Squirrelled away £50 a month for years
• Follow your gut instinct 
• The best part of rowing the ocean has been all the people we met through doing the project - all these can-do individuals
• I didn't plan for how I would feel AFTER getting off the boat. I struggle now with feeling content. 
• It took me about 18 months to feel normal again
• Qualified as a performance life coach
• Jeannete - came home settled and fine. Except she decided she didn't want to work any more. She'd worked so hard all her life and missed too much with her kids. It was a chance to reassess
• Frances - the best thing about life on the boat was how simple it was
• Helen and Jeanette have started a business
• Simon Biltcliffe - business system
• say 'yes' (and then figure out how to make it happen)
• We made a good team because we are all so different
• Stop over-thinking and listen to your gut instinct
• If I could live life again I would not fear failure
• I like to say to people that I am busy when I am not busy so that I can stay at home and read a book
• Start with Why - TED talk

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David Oakes is an actor known for his role in "The Borgias" and Prince Ernest in the ITV show "Victoria". David also runs the Trees a Crowd podcast "for those curious about the world around us."
Charm, good looks and talent are just some of the things that I do not share with David. But the point of this podcast is precisely this: to find people whose lives appear to be very different to my own, and then seek out the overlaps, the commonalities, and the lessons I can learn from what they do. 
We discussed making a living in unpredictable and unreliable ways, the things that scare us, and how to deal with the imposter syndrome.

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SHOW NOTES

• If you enjoy listening to this episode over a cup of coffee and think it might be worth the price, you can buy me a coffee here: www. ko-fi.com/al_humphreys
• Keep up to date with future episodes (and my other adventures, projects and books) with my free monthly newsletter: alastairhumphreys.com/more/subscribe
• Say hello on Twitter and Instagram: @al_humphreys
• David Oakes, Twitter, website, podcast.
• I was blessed with parents who had followed their dreams
• My dad gave up a lucrative career for one which was more emotionally and spiritually rewarding
• Had doubts about whether he would get work. 
• About half the people he trained with didn't make it
• The confidence you need at beginning you can sadly only get by doing
• I don't know what I want to do until I do it
• I know that I'm better than some people and not as good as other people
• It's not useful to doubt whether you are good
• It's the same fear level whether speaking to 10 or 1000
• It's never too late to re-train, re-purpose, change direction
• Do something every day that scares you
• You spend most of your time out of work - you face constant rejection. 
• When you're the most famous actor in the world, the only way is down.
• I make sure to enjoy my life in between the work. I work to live, not the other way round.
• What made me miserable was comparing myself to other actors. 
• I have a rule which is to leave the house every day.
• Sound recordist Chris Watson - recording dawn chorus
• The little adventures of life are what makes life worth living
• I suspect that 'enough' does not exist
• Realising that everyone has exactly the same struggles and doubts and worries as us is really helpful.
• I keep a show journal - writing notes after every performance
• maildiary.net

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Theresa Robertshaw helps the elderly get back on bicycles by taking them for rides on an adapted electric tricycle. The mission of Cycling Without Age is to create happiness among our fellow elderly citizens by providing them with an opportunity to remain an active part of society and the local community.
They do that by giving them the right to wind in their hair, the right to experience the city and nature close up from the bicycle and by giving them an opportunity to tell their story in the environment where they have lived their lives.
That way they build bridges between generations and reinforce trust, respect and the social glue in our society.
Cycling Without Age is based on generosity and kindness, slowness, storytelling and relationships. 
Theresa was my most reluctant interviewee, suggested to me by her daughter who😉 I suspect was due to face her mum's wrath after I thrust a microphone towards Theresa! I really enjoyed going for a ride with Theresa in the tricycle and found our conversation fascinating (not to mention homemade brownies and coffee that she brought along). I felt bad about making Theresa squirm, but I hope that it was worth it to bring you this interesting and thoughtful conversation... Sorry Theresa! 

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SHOW NOTES

• If you enjoy listening to this episode over a cup of coffee and think it might be worth the price, you can buy me a coffee here: www. ko-fi.com/al_humphreys
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• Cycling without age, Calderdale
• Cycling without age, global site
• Generosity: Cycling Without Age is based on generosity and kindness. It starts with the obvious generous act of taking one or two elderly or less-abled people out on a bike ride. It’s a simple act that everyone can do.
• Slowness: Slowness allows you to sense the environment, be present in the moment and it allows people you meet along the way to be curious and gain knowledge about Cycling Without Age because you make time to stop and talk.
• Storytelling: Elderly people have so many stories that will be forgotten if we don’t reach out and listen to them. We tell stories, we listen to stories on the bike and we also document the stories when we share them via word of mouth or on social media.
• Relationships: Cycling Without Age is about creating a multitude of new relationships: between generations, among the elderly, between pilots and passengers, nursing homes employees and family members. Relationships build trust, happiness and quality of life.
• Without Age: Life unfolds at all ages, young and old, and can be thrilling, fun, sad, beautiful and meaningful. Cycling Without Age is about letting people age in a positive context – fully aware of the opportunities that lie ahead when interacting in their local community.
• A chance for people who are immobile or unable to get out, to feel the wind in their hair
• Phyllis, 100, "it's the first time I've felt air!"
• Recreating the joy of being on a bike
• Some 90-year-old passengers have never been on a bike before - the chance to smell things, to see things close up
• I hope they feel like it is an adventure. It's very rewarding for pilots and passengers.
• Passengers with dementia live very much in the moment, commenting on the clouds. 
• Children naturally live adventurously without really thinking about it. 
• Getting the most out of everyday = her focus of living adventurously these days
• Regret: When I was 22 I got a visa to Australia on the same day that I got offered a job. I didn't use the visa. 
• Home is where I'm sleeping that night. It's also the family home. It's also where I'm from originally. 
• I'd rather be called weird than a lady
• I'm going to be 60 in December and it's great fun
• You should always risk big changes and new challenges. 

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You can see my ride’s route on komoot here.