The Bucket List Traveler
/What if self care is not selfish?
The first national Park on Linda Mohammad’s bucket list was Death Valley (Photo courtesy Linda Mohammad)
“Representation matters. ... The fact that I am out there, doing my thing, does inspire solo female travelers and people of color.”
Many of us assume that self care is inherently selfish — that we either focus on ourselves, or we help others.
But what if that’s a false dichotomy? This story explores how self care can end up being good for the greater community.
The story follows a woman named Linda Mohammad, also known as the Bucket List Traveler, who set out to visit all the national parks in the United States. When she started the project, she was just trying to get in shape and unplug from her hectic life. But the experience snowballed into something much bigger, and much more beautiful, than that.
Cecily Mauran has the story.
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Out There won a national award!
Out There’s episode “A Series of Unlikely Events” took the silver medal for best independent podcast in the Public Media Journalists Association’s annual awards.
PMJA is a nationwide association of public radio journalists. Their awards honor the best audio stories across the country each year.
This is Out There's fifth national award. Over the past six years, three of our episodes — “Selfless Acts”, “The Instinct to Kill” and "High on Failure" — have received gold medals, and one episode — “Failure in Success” — took second place.
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