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Imagine your (geo wizard) at the pub and you make friends with this bloke then at some point you asks what he does for a living and he says he’s a farmer… what you doing? Running away??

If anyone is interested someone's already tried a straight line mission across the Canadian province of Ontario (Southern Ontario) and I think what happened in that mission represents the problem Geowizard would have crossing any US state or Canadian province, and that's people are just much more protective of their land. The person who attempted an Ontario mission was stopped by the OPP (provincial police) after someone caught them. There was no conversation or interaction of any kind nor any warning, someone just straight up called the police and the OPP took care of the situation. And Southern Ontario probably most resembles the kind of missions that Geowizard has attempted (e.g. mostly farmland). In most other provinces you're truly going into the wild where encountering things like bears is very possible. And attempting to cross any US state shares the same risks that crossing any Canadian province has plus having a gun pulled on you. In fact even in Canada you're risking having a gun pulled on you. I'd hope the chance of actually being shot is low but does Geowizard or anyone else want to deal with an upset farmer pointing a rifle at you?

I'm a farmer and ok I'm a fan but if I found you and I didn't know who you were I would still be cool with it if u told me what you were upto

England is the land of many fences.

Your best bet for a straight line USA mission would be going in a straight line across a national park or across bureau of land management or forest service land. This would actually be pretty doable if you got in touch with the right ranger station at the right park. It would have to be open access areas of which I'm not 100% sure where the best place would be but I do know they exist. A lot of parks like Yosemite are actually tons of back country with only a little area that people usually go to. Yosemite is a bad example because it's so mountainous and would be very hard terrain for a straight line mission. But for instance, Mojave national preserve- You could do a straight line probably coming from the direction of Moore and towards Flynn (just guessing based off the map). Approach the park rangers/whatever local authority stating you are a filmmaker, you want a permit to film, and you always use a leave no trace code of ethics.

I assumed the fistbumps were some kind of ironic in-joke.

You talking about getting yelled at by farmers is exactly why I, living out in the sticks, don't Just Leave The House And Go For A Walk over neighbouring farmlands to get to the nearest town an hour away instead of walking in the lethal road with banks either side when I'm HoH and can't hear traffic or directions. It's trespassing, and apparently people don't understand that. Even Moor-lands are trespassing to me because it's council land. It's not public AFAIK. Nevermind dangerous.

1:27 half marathon is seriously impressive!!

Those thorny bushes (Hawthorn) that were ruining your day are edible, the leaves taste like apple and the berries can be eaten as well.

on the off chance you spot this comment, concerning your fascination with storytelling: I highly recommend this as a starting point for further thoughts en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homo_narrans :D

Parent of 4 here - I've tried to be strict with screens too and it is hard. I'm not laughing at what you said, I think it's a great attitude and I hope you manage to find a good balance with your family. From my experience, the key is to delay introducing regular screentime for as long as possible, and to get them interested and absorbed in other activities (especially outdoor and physical activities) as early as possible. If you do this, you'll create a good foundation of interest in other things and wanting to be outdoors and adventurous and moving their bodies, and wanting to spend time with you too. It also creates great early memories which will always stay with them and make it more likely they'll be active adults in the future. Then when they do start having more exposure to screens it'll be easier to manage. Another thing to note is it's much easier to control screentime with younger children. Once they get to tween/teenage you just won't be able to do much about it. This is why that foundation I mentioned is so important, so they can better self-regulate their screen time as they get older. That's my unsolicited advice for the day!

You are not crazy when it comes to screen time. My two year old doesn't get screen time or its very limited. It's not easy and sometimes it would be nice to just give him a tablet and have some peace but he loves the outdoors and playing. It just takes dedication to not give in to the screens if that's what you want for your kid. As hard as it is sometimes I wouldn't change a thing about my adventurous little boy!

You didn’t touch on a Canada straight line mission part of the question but I’m not sure it would be possible anyway. Lots of crown land that is free to travel but it’s over a thousand km’s wide and is dense forest. I guess you could do a mini mission along the Bruce peninsula?

Whoever asked the question about sweets hasn't heard of Kendal Mint Cake.

Ireland is only four miles wide at one point in the north. 😂

I reckon you should do a podcast in the future Tom 👍🏻

Nice 👍

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Tenner in pocket from northest point of Netherlands: Noordkaap statue, Groningen to Klein-Kuttingen, Limburg. Should be doable in a day :)

Love that Archie and Adam beat every challenge flawlessly. They are genuinely a good team. But that’s it. It’s a team effort. I’d like to see one of them do it alone with ofcourse pit stop help from the other.

Have you replaced one Ben with another Ben?

Sometimes I confuse geoguessr and geowizard when I Google them 😅

Similar to a tenner in the pocket, you could do get day-pass transit ticket and find free things to do

Just wanted to say thank you Tom. Me and my flatmate at uni loved watching all your videos and I've been a fan since geoguessr blew up in popularity since we used to play it during lunch breaks and "study periods" in the school library. This summer you inspired me to do a lot more hiking and go interrailing through Europe on a whim and it's been the best summer of adventure I've had in a long time. I was even watching some of the old straight line missions on the train and listened to a few of the podcasts you have done. Just wanted to say you have been a big inspiration to me personally to go and adventure for myself and it has given me so much confidence and inspiration to do more adventures. I'm even planning to do a (short) straight line hike with some friends hopefully at the end of the year. Keep on making these brilliant videos and best of luck to you and Verity as new parents.

What if you phoned up each of the farmers in advance and let them know you'd be coming through, so they didn't need to worry?

apparently some divers use toothpaste to prevent their goggles from fogging up

I need an answer to this, although a music fan from the UK can only have one answer to this: how do you feel about The Beatles?

yes local accents

As for an interesting experience, a very different type of adventure and certainly an entertaining thing to watch would be you taking part in a season of Jet Lag: The Game, in some competition throughout Europe - it‘s usually only a few days of actual competition (plus several weeks of planning, but I assume that can be done remotely) and your skills and knowledge would be quite cool.

Reminds me of Laurie Lee. He walked out one morning and ended up in Spanish civil war with only a some coins in his pocket and his violin.

Loved the fist bump question, my wife thought that was odd and said ' if you fist bumped me I would divorce you'. She was joking of course, well probably....maybe.

Wow never knew you lived so close, enjoyed watching on and off last few years. you went through the village i live lol

congrats on the baby. my mum was always very strict with screen time so i was outside all the time mountain biking etc definitely the best thing to do i will always be thankfull to her so yes it may sound stupid but being outside fucking about is quite literally the best thing u can do as a kid

Really looking forward to the adventure with Ben, absolutely loved the run across Wales with him and Adam, and the run from Sheffield to Manchester. Just a top bloke all around, you have great vibes together,

as a gay guy that likes to fistbump my partner while we play games i never thought it was odd lol

Super Cool hearing youre into Music and Somgwriting too. Will certainly be looking forward to the Album your dropping!

Maybe it’s the Welsh in general and not the fact they are farmers

really interesting... tks GW

thanks for answering my question :)

You can get tree surgeon goggles that are wire mesh and don’t fog up and very easy to wear, unlike a full mask 😊

Big jugs ♥

surely pine needles would poke through the holes in that mask

"There's a buzz on this motorway!"

22:25 I’m so glad you said beg! 😂 I didn’t know where you were going with that!

Please do another real life geoguessr as that was epic and it’s been a few years since

I think it would be cool idea for burdell website to actually calculate the "ideal line that minimizes burdell score (same can be done for deviations). So you would basically have 3 lines: planned, ideal for score, and ideal for deviations. I think it shouldn't be hard to implement, as I did something similar in university, but I might be wrong tho

Waaaay too casual looking at the drunken bowsies while the clock was ticking away.

Next mission- Verity drops you off in east Europe with a tenner and you have 72 hrs to make your way back home

paintball eye protection should work fine

I really enjoyed the no road missions, an idea of mine would be to combine this with the tenner in my pocket videos. Where you get to a dedicated destination with just a bit of cash on you and avoid walking along any road or path on your way.