Jenny O'Dell
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102 appearances
1 recordings
1 series
first heard Jul 2019
last heard Jul 2019
Jenny O'Dell’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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And he said, once you've seen it, you've seen it, which is just like a really interesting description of the Grand Canyon, which is like formed over so long.
It's such an amazing I mean, like it just goes to show, right, this kind of image based idea of travel where it's like,
I saw a photo.
I want to go possibly take that photo myself or be in it.
And then I will leave.
Even in those kind of difficult or logistically annoying moments, just recognizing that you're somewhere new and it's something you haven't experienced before.
Just kind of doing enough research ahead of time to find things that are specific to a place that you can't just experience somewhere else.
I think you have a vague sense, right?
Like if you go somewhere new, oh, like these are new trees or I don't know what kind of bird that is that I'm hearing or something like that.
So you can take it in.
This kind of gives me like some traction.
Like I can start to like learn, you know, the names of things or just get like a little more detail about the ecological communities that live somewhere that are native to a place.
And personally, I've started to feel like if before I've done that, I haven't truly arrived in a place, especially if you're spending a lot of time in kind of sterilized commercial spaces that look the same as everywhere else.
Like I like to kind of try to find things to latch on to that are truly different about a place.
It was a virtual road trip across the U.S.
via Google Street View that I took online.
And basically, the fictional travel narrative is two months, but it took me a year and a half to do because I used Street View to navigate and find stuff.
And then once I found things that way, I would look them up on TripAdvisor, Yelp, YouTube.
I just kind of try to get the overall picture of how this thing shows up online and all the experiences people have had of it.
It's called Travel by Approximation because I try to really approximate real travel with
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