Alastair Humphreys

So lots of cool stuff about that.

But the last episode I want to leave you with is from a former guest, Alastair Humphreys.

And this is about a book he's done called Unwilded.

And this is why I climbed the tree.

We had Rolf Potts on series one who talked about, we talked about the idea of slowing down of travel and letting yourself go.

Alistair Humphreys came on this season and he talked about taking little adventures.

So every day could be an adventure.

It doesn't have to be this big, giant thing.

I think the word has been popularized by this English adventurer.

I don't know if you've ever heard about Alastair Humphreys.

I write for adventure.com, which is an Australian, UK-based publication, quite a lot.

And I think there was a really good article by Alastair where he had done a lot of these microadventures back in the UK itself.

Maybe no expectations, but just letting the landscape, the wildlife soak into you as you're sitting there doing nothing.

And a couple of people, Alistair Humphreys that I spoke to on an earlier podcast, said that one of his routines is to go out and sit on a tree trunk for half an hour or an hour.

And that's something that he always makes sure he has time to do regularly.

And also making a cup of coffee.

As it did at the start of this year when I went down to Northumberland for the first time and I was like, oh my God, this is such an amazing area.

I'd love to come back in the future.

But then I also don't I'm not somebody that wants to just sit around and go oh I can't go anywhere new this week so I'm not going to enjoy photography suddenly I'm like I'm just going to go to my local beach or my local woodlands but I do think there's something really beautiful about having places on your doorstep or you know within a short drive that you can go to time and time again because they're accessible to you and often the videos that I post on YouTube nowadays are filmed within an hour or some two hours but a lot of them are just an hour you know I just have a couple of hours free I'll dry 15 minutes film and do photography for an hour and come home again and for me that's actually gives me so much joy often than the bigger trips but I do think we do need to go new places sometimes because it does inspire us or help us to to see things a bit differently and learn

I agree.