Paul Schmid of The Pursuit Zone interviews me about the walk across Turkey.
Click here to listen to the interview.
Here’s an index of questions:
01:00 — Where did you grow up?
02:00 — Does your father have anything to do with farming?
02:50 — How did you end up in Istanbul the first time around?
04:00 — Did you do any work while you were in Istanbul the first time around?
05:30 — How did the idea for this walk get into your head?
08:15 — How did you plan and prepare?
10:30 — How long were you in Turkey before you started the walk?
11:30 — Were you telling people about what you were going to do?
12:45 — Take us through the route. You started in the west, is that correct?
15:40 — Did you feel safe during your travels?
17:15 — Were there any close calls? (regarding getting hit by cars)
17:30 — You mean they were messing with you? (talking about truckers trying to sideswipe me)
18:30 — It sounds like people were very generous. Tell me about that.
20:15 — How did things change? Did people change as you went west to east?
22:00 — There were a lot of people who couldn’t believe you were walking across Turkey. How do you explain that?
22:45 — This notion that you were a spy. Can you explain that?
27:00 — What was the high point of the trip? What was the low point of the trip? How did you keep up the motivation day to day?
32:30 — How important was it to be able to speak some Turkish?
33:45 — Tell me about your Couchsurfing experience.
36:50 — Isn’t part of Couchsurfing that you have to reciprocate?
39:00 — So you make it to the end. What is the significance of the breaking of the bottles?
40:30 — Why were you dedicating each day of the walk to someone, and who are those people?
42:15 — What’s your advice for people who want to undertake something like this?
44:30 — What’s next for you?
45:30 — Can you go back to working in a cubicle?