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Join Mt. Rainier Scenic Railroad Executive Director Bethan Maher and Superintendent Rowdy Pierce and take a ride into the modern age of steam locomotives, cows, corn and incontinent Santas. This is an unvarnished look at the business of tourist steam railroads like you've never heard before.

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ようこそ、風の旅路へ。
私――くつろぎ――とあなたは、ここで出会い、旅仲間として共に歩きはじめます。 安宅和人さんの著書『風の谷という希望』をガイドブックに、
「残すに値する未来」を思い描き、語り合いながら、旅路はゆっくりと進んでいきます。 ときに、答えの見えない問いに悩むこともあるでしょう。
けれど、その逡巡もまた、旅の大切なひととき。 気が向いたときには、あなたの言葉を「風旅帳（※）」に残...

Welcome aboard the Raglan Boat Charters Podcast, where the stories of Whaingaroa Harbour come alive. Hosted by Captains Barlow and Andrew, this series takes you beyond the surface of Raglan’s waters to explore the history, culture, wildlife, and people that make this small West Coast town so special. Raglan Boat Charters is a family-run business built on authenticity, hospitality, and a deep connection to the harbour. Through our two very different vessels — the relaxed Wahinemoe and the adventurous Wakahuia — we offer unique ways to experience Raglan by sea. Wahinemoe (meaning “...

Histórias reais pela estrada que nos ensinam muito sobre a vida e o que ela é ou achamos ser - isso é tudo um mistério.

Welcome to Pattaya Down Under! Each week, Aida and Aaron take you straight into the heart of Pattaya, Thailand’s most outrageous playground. Whether it’s bizarre local news, nightlife antics, expat confessions, or the everyday chaos that makes this city one of a kind, Aaron and Aida are here to laugh about it, roast it, and tell it like it is. Expect banter that’s equal parts sharp, cheeky, and unfiltered – because in Pattaya, the stories pretty much write themselves. From tuk-tuk tales to beachside blowouts, Aaron and Aida bring the comedy, the chaos, and the culture clash right to ...

Are there any genuinely wild places left in Britain and Ireland? Or have we tarmacked, farmed and built ourselves out of wildness? In his vital, bewitching, inspiring classic, Robert Macfarlane sets out in search of the wildness that remains.

Homage to Catalonia is George Orwell’s account of his experiences fighting in the Spanish Civil War, and a portrait of disillusionment with his early politics. Orwell’s experiences include being shot in the neck by a sniper, and being forced into hiding as factions of the Left battled on the streets of Barcelona. Orwell entered Spain intending to gather an experience worth writing as well as to fight Fascism, and wrote Homage to Catalonia within months of his return.

At the age of 24, Alastair Humphreys set off to try to cycle round the world. By the time he arrived back home, four years later, he had ridden 46,000 miles across five continents on a budget of just £7,000. From frozen Siberia tundra to the jungles of central Africa, Alastair recounts his extraordinary his adventures in two parts - Moods of Future Joys and Thunder & Sunshine - brought together in audiobook for the first time.

Amid all the foreign adventurers that throng to Nepal to scale the world's highest peaks, there exists a small tribe of mountain people at the foothills of Himalayas. Sherpa tells their story. It's the story of endeavour and survival at the roof of the world. The story dives into their culture and tells of their existence at the edge of life and death. It traces their story pre- and post-mountaineering revolution, their evolution as climbing crusaders with never previously published stories from the most notable and incredible Sherpas of the last 50 years.

Full Tilt is the inspiring true story of Dervla Murphy's 1963 journey from Ireland to India on an Armstrong Cadet bicycle, and the trials, landscapes, and cultures she encountered along the way. The route takes her through the valleys and snowy mountain passes of Europe and India to the scorching deserts of Afghanistan and Pakistan, where the metal of her bicycle, Rozinante (named after Don Quixote's steed), becomes too hot to touch.