Society & Culture
Brooke and Rebecca were sick of their day-to-day life and their desire to adventure was growing near-intolerable. They decided this summer was the summer for their cross-country road trip. They modified Franny, the minivan they bought for the journey, to the nines and designed every square millimetre so it had a purpose and function. In this episode, we sit down with the pair on a dock on one of the hottest days of the summer. Again, I lost some audio from the original recording where Brooke and Rebecca talked in detail about where they’d been so far. We talk about how they chose to modify their van, why they set out to uncover more of the country they’re from, and what they’ve learned from living out of a van. ---- Thru Here releases new episodes every Thursday. This episode features four ads from some of our friends, they include: Create Simple is a community for those learning how to create a greener simpler tomorrow. It hosts workshops and has great resources for people who want to be a more conscious consumer. You can visit https://www.createsimple.org/ for more exciting information and resources. In Exit the Echo Chamber, a podcast by 6tiles Media, host William Rhoda talks to people you’ve never met, with perspectives you’ve never considered. You can check it out on all your favourite podcast-listening apps here. Bridger is a dystopian serial, with new episodes released weekly. Head to https://bridgerserial.com/ to learn more and to get reading. Where We Feel Human is a book by Sam Cortes which prompts a necessary dialogue about why it’s more important than ever to recognize the powerful positive effects nature has on our mental health. It comes out on Feb. 20, 2019. A book launch will be held that night at FortWhyte Alive’s interpretive centre in Winnipeg, MB, starting at 7 p.m. You can RSVP to the event and get more information here. Season one of Thru Here takes place in Riding Mountain National Park, a vast forested oasis among Manitoba’s hundreds of kilometres of prairie, and a destination for many travellers. Thru Here is recorded on Treaty 2 territory. The land is the traditional territory of the Anishinaabeg, Cree, Oji-Cree, Dakota and Dene Peoples and the homeland of the Metis Nation. The land is also used by Indigenous nations from Treaties 1, 3 and 4. Follow us on social media, we’re @thruhere on Tumblr, Pinterest, Twitter, Instagram and Facebook.