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The Active Travel Adventures podcast inspires and empowers you to lead a bigger life through adventure travel. We scour the planet for the most fun and beautiful active vacations, whether it’s climbing Machu Picchu, rafting the Colorado river through the Grand Canyon, walking the El Camino in Spain, or bicycling the stiletto heel of Italy. The common denominator is that you have to MOVE: either hike, bike, paddle and/or horseback ride for part of each day! The bar is set that my reasonably fit 58 year old body can do these adventures and so can YOU! These adventures aren’t crazy hard or dangerous like climbing Mount Everest… they are doable, epic fun vacations for those that are in decent physical shape. Most have a difficulty rating of 3 out of 5, so if you’re in reasonable shape, particularly if you are willing to train a bit, you can do these trips! All adventures offer a fascinating and unique way to immerse yourself in another culture or destination.

Episodes

Day Hiking Backpack Checklist

Day Hiking Gear Checklist and Buying Guide Your day hiking gear checklist is critical in helping you to decide what to bring versus what to leave home.  Obviously you don’t want to leave any potential safety needs behind, but neither do you want to carry excess weight.  Evaluate your planned adventure with the notes belows to figure out what to carry on your adventure.  I like to reveiw my checklist before each trip to make
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Backpacking Packing Check List

Backpacking Gear Checklist and Buying Guide Your backpacking gear checklist is critical in helping you to decide what to bring versus what to leave home.  You make a trade off between comfort during the day (the weight you carry on your back) against your comfort at night (the luxuriousness of your relax and sleep time gear).  Below is my finely honed list including my one luxury item.  Buy and pack right to find your best
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Trek the North Island of Japan : Hokkaido

Hike the North Island of Japan Get away from the crowds and head to the north island of Japan for your next hiking adventure!  Stunning scenery, including volcanos, loads of spirng wild flowers, pleasant summer temperatures or outstanding fall foliage!  Our guests Susan and Richard tell us about their incredible Asian adventure on today’s show.  Learn when to go, what to expect and why you should consider trekking Japan for your next adventure travel holiday.
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Gorilla Trekking in Uganda

Gorilla Trekking In Uganda If you want to see the huge mountain gorillas, you have to go gorilla trekking in East Africa, to Uganda or Rwanda (or the Congo, but it’s not safe to go there).  These massive mammals need far too much space and food to be kept in a zoo (you’ll see the lowland gorillas in zoos), thus there are no mountain gorillas in captivity.  On today’s show, we learn why you would
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Everything You Need to Know to Walk the El Camino

Walking the El Camino de Santiago – The Many Paths of this Pilgrimage While often walked as a pilgrimage to the Catedral del Santiago, the presumed burial place of St. Jame’s remains, thousands of folks walk the multiple paths or ways to this coastal town for their own personal reasons.  Often they return again and again.  Today I interview Umberto di Venosa of Follow the Camino, a tour company he founded after becoming enamored with
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