Kit Parks
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Discover the world's best hiking, biking, and paddling adventures on the Active Travel Adventures Podcast. Get inspired to take your next multi-day trip — no extreme fitness required! We cover active vacations that any reasonably fit person can do, especially if they train. Adventure travel holidays offer a fun and more immersive cultural experience! What You'll Discover: * Trekking routes both the popular Bucket List trails and treks, plus many less discovered routes * Cycling holidays in small groups, solo or the fun boat and bike tours * River rafting and kayaking adventures (often combined with hiking and cycling) * Small group guided adventure tours fr...
Based on 6 episodes we listened to · September 2026
Kit Parks makes demanding journeys legible through candid trail accounts, practical questions, and close attention to the choices behind each trip.
Kit Parks turns ambitious journeys into routes a listener can picture and assess, moving between first-person trail accounts, guest interviews, and practical planning.
Kit walks against pilgrim traffic on the Camino; your itinerary can survive a little improvisation.
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A flat boat-and-bike route from Amsterdam to Bruges that makes European touring feel manageable.
It follows a practical boat-and-bike trip from Amsterdam to Bruges, with the appeal coming from the simple rhythm of the route, the scenic stops, and the ease of unpacking once while the floating hotel does the moving.
A candid Everest Base Camp field report about altitude, acclimatization, water, and holding steady after a bad night.
Kit Parks treats the middle stretch of her Everest Base Camp trek as a plain test of altitude, pacing, and morale. She describes a roughly seven-hour climb to around 11,000 feet, and the strain of day two comes through in both body and mood.
A birthday trek that turns nerves, logistics, and grit into useful trail advice.
A 65th-birthday trek to EBC gives the episode a clear spine, but the deeper interest lies in the discipline behind the trip: committing to a hard goal, staying with training, and pushing through self-doubt.
A ride story that stays practical, from the first mile to the Welsh hills.
Steve Silk's ride from London to the Welsh coast gives this episode its shape, and the best moments come when the travel story keeps sliding back into usable advice.
A scenic walking holiday with local color, practical trail detail, and a loose diary rhythm.
The Cotswold Way comes into focus as a walking holiday built on ordinary pleasures: medieval stone cottages, clipped hedges, sheep and horses on the hills, and village pubs spaced about a day apart.
A hard climb told with enough trail detail to make the summit feel earned.
Climbing Kilimanjaro reads as a grounded travel story about leaving comfort behind and learning that pacing matters more than bravado. Kit Parks keeps the emphasis on the experience itself: choosing a climb that was not originally on the bucket list, pushing through long hiking…
Practical trail-fueling advice that keeps the focus on energy, pack weight, and simple rules of thumb.
This episode pairs Kit Parks with registered dietitian Lucy Hayhurst for a practical talk about fueling backpacking, day packing, bike packing, and paddling without adding much weight or bulk.
A clear, ground level Bhutan travel piece built from temple detail and everyday observation.
Bhutan comes through as a place that still feels physically and culturally intact, shaped by remoteness, Buddhist practice, and a pace that sits far from Western noise.
Weekly multi-segment travel interviews pairing European destinations with historians and explorers.
Deep Disney parks talk, right down to the signage.
Real family routes, practical travel stories.
Everyday curiosities, explained with a sideways grin.
Kit Parks opens by anchoring the episode in a Bhutan campfire conversation, then updates her earlier travel-app roundup for 2026.
Kit Parks describes a 2025 Portuguese Camino coastal route that began as a solo plan in 2020 and became a 16-person “Solo Together” trip.
Kit Parks focuses Part II of Active Travel Adventures Bhutan Hiking and Cultural Adventure on the trekking, camping, and day-hiking side of the trip after a cultural-heavy first part.
Kit Parks takes the Active Travel Adventures audience from Porto through the last 100 kilometers of the Portuguese Coastal Route and explains how the Compostela rules change once pilgrims reach that threshold.
Kit Parks opens with a warning.
Kit Parks hosts Leslie on Active Travel Adventures to compare a Croatia trip with Active Adventures against Kit’s earlier boat-bike tour.
Kit Parks finishes her Cotswold Way series by walking the southbound leg from King Stanley to Historic Bath on a trail she says is about 100 miles long.
Kit Parks uses this episode to show how she saved over $600 on a Morocco trip and how a Paris itinerary can be built from airports, airlines, and trains instead of one expensive ticket.
Kit Parks says Bhutan is the most unusual of the more than 50 countries she has visited, and she ties that to Gross National Happiness, carbon negativity, and a tightly controlled tourism system.
Kit Parks frames Active Travel Adventures podcast’s “Solo Adventure Travel Tips and Advice” around three separate interviews: Jackie Norse, Monica Aaron Gurin, and Jason Waitkins.
Kit Parks of Active Travel Adventures explains why solo supplements can raise a trip’s cost by 10% to 100% when prices are based on PPDO, or per-person double occupancy.
Lucy Hayhurst, a registered dietitian and owner of Well Balanced Nutrition in Durham, North Carolina, breaks down how hikers, bikepackers, and paddlers can balance weight, taste, and “food fuel.” She contrasts simple carbs like white bread with complex carbs like sweet potatoes and quinoa, and says “fat is our friend” for taste, fullness, and vitamin absorption.
Kit Parks says a library book on the Appalachian Trail changed her life, and she traces that shift back to 2011, when she did not hike at all.
Kit Parks uses this episode to explain how he saved over $600 on a Morocco trip by combining airport Wikipedia pages, Google Flights, Rome2Rio, and a cheaper departure from Washington, D.C.
Kit Parks says she has traveled to around 50 countries by using a system that saves money for travel without feeling deprived.
Host Kit Parks shares her personal experience on a 10-day active adventure tour in Peru, including hiking the Inca Trail to Machu Picchu and visiting the Amazon.
Host Kit Parks interviews guest Donna about her boat and bike tour from Amsterdam to Bruges with operator Boat Bike Tours, which she undertook with her self-described couch potato husband.
Kit Parks finishes part two of her Everest Base Camp trek in Nepal with the stretch that pushed her hardest.
65-year-old host Kit Parks recounts comprehensive preparation for Everest Base Camp trek—an 80-mile, 8,200-foot elevation gain, 12-day journey to 17,600 feet.
Host Kit Parks presents her annual curated list of 20 travel podcasts to discover in 2026, offering brief, enthusiastic descriptions of each show's unique angle—from philosophical deep dives and personal storytelling to practical tips on avoiding crowds and using points.
Steve Silk discusses Go West, his eight-day, 300-mile bike trip from London to Fishguard, and says the ride shifted from solo travel to four riders for the Welsh hills.
Kit Parks heads to the Cotswold Way.
The host announces plans for a group boat and bike tour in Friesland, Netherlands, in July 2027, sharing details about the ship and itinerary.
Kit Parks uses the disappearance of her friend Geri Largay, trail name Inchworm, to frame a survival lesson built around the STOP method: stay put, think, observe, and plan.
This educational episode covers lightning safety for hikers and bikers, explaining what lightning is, the five types of strikes, and practical tips for protection both indoors and outdoors.
Expert guide to safe hiking in bear country covering identification, prevention, and response.
Active Travel Adventures host Kit Parks frames Kilimanjaro as "the hardest thing" the show has covered and interviews Damon about climbing Africa's highest mountain.
Kit Parks explores the leading cause of outdoor death in U.S.
Host Kit Parks shares a 10-point checklist for choosing the perfect campsite, drawing from a personal story of a frustrating and unsafe camping experience on the Appalachian Trail.
This episode provides training tips for high-altitude treks, using the host's upcoming Everest Base Camp trip as a case study.
An expert discusses different routes and tips for walking or biking the El Camino de Santiago in Spain.
Host Kit Parks introduces a crossover episode with Molly's Adventures in Good Company podcast, shares housekeeping about Google Podcasts and upcoming group trips, then hands over to Molly.
Host Kit Parks interviews Lori about her experience on the Costa Rica Camino, a multi-day hiking trail.
Host Kit Parks introduces a listener's experience hiking the Costa Rica Camino, highlighting how each person's adventure is unique.