Laura Bingham is an English adventurer best known for completing a cross-continent cycle of South America in July 2016.

Show notes

• Being a free spirit
• Growing up with 3 older sisters
• Being a spoiled brat while growing up
• Leaving home at 18 to travel
• Hopping around for 4 years, changing countries and jobs
• Dealing with anxiety at college
• Living on her own, working on her own and doing it all on her own
• Every step took her further and further away from home
• Dealing with a broken heart and trying to fill the empty void
• Arriving in Mexico - sorting out a job and a place to live within 3 days
• Doing Jaguar conservation work
• Leaving Mexico after 4 months
• Duolingo for learning languages
• Deciding to sail home across the Atlantic
• Crewbay.com 
• The cow scull
• Trying to get to the boat with no money 
• Sailing to England 
• Surviving on four hour sleeps
• Having an argument and not being able to get out 
• Sailing to Ireland and not England!
• Getting itch feet and wanting to get travelling again
• Cycling Ecuador to Argentina with no money
• Operation South America
• Getting her plans in place and dealing with the negativity
• Why you should smile at strangers
• The mental and emotional challenges of her trip
• Asking for help, asking for food
• How she coped when her fiancé was in an accident
• Having Ness Knight come out to join the trip
• What she learn’t from the South American cycle
• Being emotional once she was back at home
• What’s on her bucket list
• Her message that she advocates - “follow your dreams”
• Why you’ll learn from failure

 

Social Media

Twitter @laurabingham

Instagram @laurabingham 

 

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