{"id":200807,"date":"2025-09-16T03:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-09-16T10:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rei.com\/blog\/?p=200807"},"modified":"2025-09-17T16:42:24","modified_gmt":"2025-09-17T23:42:24","slug":"biking-and-birding-for-18000-miles-with-dorian-anderson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rei.com\/blog\/podcasts\/biking-and-birding-for-18000-miles-with-dorian-anderson","title":{"rendered":"Biking and Birding for 18,000 Miles with Dorian Anderson"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"cb-itemprop\" itemprop=\"reviewBody\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"200px\" width=\"100%\" frameborder=\"no\" scrolling=\"no\" seamless src=\"https:\/\/player.simplecast.com\/4b013cda-037e-421d-a56b-f8e3d996b566?dark=false\"><\/iframe>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/wild-ideas-worth-living.simplecast.com\/episodes\/biking-and-birding-for-18-000-miles-with-dorian-anderson\/transcript\">Transcript<\/a> <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Dorian Anderson was a neuroscientist and geneticist with a promising academic career when he made a radical shift: in 2014, he left the lab to pursue a year-long, cross-country birding adventure\u2014on a bicycle. Pedaling nearly 18,000 miles across the U.S., his goal was to spot over 600 bird species while deepening his sobriety, and reconnecting with nature.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Connect with Dorian:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/bikingforbirds.blogspot.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Website<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/dorian.anderson.photography\/?hl=en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Instagram<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Dorian&#8217;s book,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Birding-Under-Influence-Cycling-Recovery\/dp\/1645022234\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><em>Birding Under the Influence<\/em><\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rei.com\/events\/101906\/camp-monsters-podcast-live\/a02cw00000B3JRBAA3\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Register for Camp Monsters LIVE in Denver, Colorado<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Thank you to our sponsors:&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Capital One and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.rei.com\/membership\/mastercard?trackingId=podcast\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">the REI Co-op\u00ae Mastercard\u00ae\u00a0<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rei.com\/b\/benchmade\/c\/all\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Benchmade<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/span>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Transcript Dorian Anderson was a neuroscientist and geneticist with a promising academic career when he made a radical shift: in 2014, he left the lab to pursue a year-long, cross-country birding adventure\u2014on a bicycle. 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