{"id":311168,"date":"2025-11-22T12:29:20","date_gmt":"2025-11-22T12:29:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/peraltafinancing.com\/adventure\/friday-inspiration-511-semi-rad-com\/"},"modified":"2025-11-22T12:29:20","modified_gmt":"2025-11-22T12:29:20","slug":"friday-inspiration-511-semi-rad-com","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fivemor.com\/?p=311168","title":{"rendered":"Friday Inspiration 511 \u2013 Semi-Rad.com"},"content":{"rendered":"


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Sometimes this space gets filled by a video<\/strong> of a person skiing some insanely dangerous line in the mountains or a person taking on some other difficult challenge in nature, but sometimes you get a 3-minute video titled \u201cSome Interesting Apples,\u201d which is actually about interesting apples. Some of them, anyway. (video<\/strong><\/a>)<\/p>\n

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I love The Pudding, and I can\u2019t resist a story about someone dreaming up and attempting an adventure just for the hell of it, so of course I clicked on this story about Russell Samora deciding to walk across Massachusetts<\/strong> <\/a>after a winter of rehabbing his achilles tendon (and reading books about people who walked or hiked a long ways). What makes it particularly Pudding-esque, I think, is the option to read the long-form essay with illustrations, or to choose the TLDR version, which is mostly images from his walk.<\/p>\n

In the future, if anyone ever tells me they would like to write a book someday, I will be certain to enthusiastically tell them Martin Brodsky\u2019s story, in which he:<\/p>\n