Extreme Travel Odysseys tells the stories of adventurers whose journeys are in some way offbeat, creative, unique, or never-ending. From full-time travel writers to those on sabbatical to those just wandering around, this podcast will inspire, inform, and show you that you don't have to climb Everest or even go to a foreign country to have an odyssey. You might pick up some travel hacks along the way, and you might just learn that even average people can take extraordinary trips. You probably won't hear the term "bucket list" since the subjects in our interviews don't look at world as a finite set of places to see. The journey is itself the goal, and it is never-ending.
How do you survive in a desert town that has a record high temperature of 117F? You go into hiding, literally. The mining town of Coober Pedy, Austral...
Want to be part of something that only a few hundred people have done? Grab a map of the U.S. and get going, visiting the highest elevation of each st...
From the East Coast to the West Coast to the Rockies to Iceland, Will Wood knows a good trail. Now, he gets paid to hike. He began with the Appalachia...
This episode chronicles the making of host Mike Klein's favorite travel documentary of all time, "180 Degrees South." Guest Jeff Johnson discusses how...
What's bigger than the Olympics and the Super Bowl? The soccer (football) World Cup, which took place this summer in Russia. In this episode meet Mano...
Just 12 men have walked on the moon, and only three more than that have completed the Barkley Marathons, a fantastically quirky and random endurance t...
What happens when you know you want to hit the road, but you don't have a place you need to be? Easy. Invite your friends to a bar, have them write do...
What's your idea of a dream honeymoon? A few weeks on a white-sand beach? A trip to Europe? How about an 11-month trip around to the world to nearly t...
What happens when you leave your comfortable life to follow a bigger calling? Art doesn't just imitate life, in this case, he chases his best life. Th...
Two Canadian friends and accidental documentarians discuss a pair of quixotic adventures. Canadians Dustin Corkery and Adrian Traquair first rowed a b...