Trail Stories - The Short-Term Fear with Madeline Hryse

Madeline Hryse has not had a home address in four years, which she will tell you is liberating and which her mother will tell you is a different word entirely. Three years walking across Asia, one year cycling solo from southern China to Sweden, and exactly zero permanent mailing addresses later, Madeline has a theory: the people with the stable job and the 401(k) are the scared ones, not her. This episode covers the mountain pass in Kyrgyzstan that made her the most unpleasant person alive for exactly one day before rewarding her with the best view of her life, the skill she had to learn the hard way about reading strange men on lonely roads, and a piece of string from a hostel free pile that may have saved her life in the Pamir Mountains. Hollywood would call this a midlife crisis. Madeline calls it Tuesday.