How Slow Can You Go?
Fiona King and Ed Gillespie with a guide, on horseback in Terelj, Mongolia. Courtesy of Ed Gillespie hide caption
Ed Gillespie told us about his low-carbon, slow travel tour de monde. I'm relieved to know I'm not the only one who feels like flying can be, well...overindulgent and wasteful.
A few years ago, I was hopping a plane every chance I got: Weekends in Colorado, Ireland and a quick jaunt to northern Vermont. Then I took a long flight and stayed put: Three months in rural Senegal. Not a lot of quick transportation options there...I got around in shared taxis (seating room tight; windows optional), horse-drawn carts and plain-old walking, like the locals.
I looked like a tourist, but I didn't feel like one...until I headed to the airport to come home.
Here's what Ed Gillespie had to say in an interview with Rachel Martin.
How do you like to hit the road -- fast, slow, somewhere in between?