walk and talk | Derek Sivers
100km (62mi) walk for eight conversationalists. The following list is directly from Sivers' article, except for the unit conversions.
- Choose where to walk — somewhere with lodging for 8 people every 15 km (15 km ≈ 10mi) — where someone else can drive everyone’s bags from place to place.
- Someone (local person or business) walks it all in advance to make sure it’s actually good. This person will be the navigator.
- Make a shared document of details of where to meet and what to bring, a group chat for questions, and a shared place to upload photos afterwards.
- Invite a diverse group of conversationalists — ideally eight. Walkers send money to the local navigator to pre-pay for the lodging and meals.
- Meet at the initial hotel for dinner and introductions.
- Walk together for the next 6-7 days — ideally without phones — about 3-5 hours of walking per day, led by the navigator, with long breaks every two hours. Everyone naturally goes in and out of little 2-3 person conversations while walking.
- Every night over a private dinner, the entire group has a single conversation around one subject, which the group chose the night before. Everyone stays involved in this one conversation, exploring one topic to exhaustion.