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Basketball for me is not just a game,

not only a game,

not only a competition or entertainment,

for me, it's more like education,

and that, whatever you come from,

you're either from mountain, or you're from city...

(YAO MING, BASKETBALL THREE-TIME OLYMPIAN)

..you're from Europe or Asia or United States or America,

you all play in the same group, that, at least in that field,

we are all equal.

That's it.

(OLYMPIC GAMES)

(AFTER BEIJING 2008)

(SPORT)

(CHINA)

(LEGACY OF BEIJING 2008)

(CHINA TRANSFORMS)

(OLYMPIC GAMES)

(COMING OF AGE: CHINA AFTER BEIJING 2008)

(MINNING TOWNSHIP NINGXIA PROVINCE)

(NINGXIA IS AN AUTONOMOUS REGION)

(IN NORTHWEST CHINA FOR THE HUI PEOPLE)

(A CHINESE ETHNIC MINORITY)

(WHO PREDOMINANTLY OBSERVE THE MUSLIM FAITH)

The Yao Foundation, established by me

and my family at 2008,

exactly the same year as the Olympics.

And my first mission is to help the underdeveloped area,

to build them schools,

or maybe repair their school,

make sure they have a safe building to get educated.

(TO DATE, THE YAO FOUNDATION HAS FOUNDED)

(18 HOPE PRIMARY SCHOOLS)

(IN CHINA'S IMPOVERISHED RURAL AREAS)

Most of the schools we support at

is in the underdeveloped area.

They are a little bit limited resource,

compared to the city schools.

So we know they are very short of those PE classes,

art classes.

So we use our strength to help them with the basketball class.

That's where the Hope Schools

Basketball Season Project come from.

(SINCE 2012, MORE THAN 150,000 CHILDREN HAVE)

(ATTENDED YAO MING'S PROJECT HOPE BASKETBALL CLINICS)

When he retired, he said,

"I may be leaving the court, but not the game."

(DAVID SHOEMAKER, CEO NBA CHINA)

And he's dedicated himself,

over the course of now several years,

to growing the game of basketball.

This is Minning Town.

And this is my farm.

I spend my time working out in the fields here.

Our family all work out in the fields together.

Yan Yan is my second daughter,

and she's usually very outgoing.

She often helps me out in the fields.

She really loves playing basketball.

Very few Hui Muslim girls play basketball.

But Yan Yan really likes basketball.

I think kids should do what they enjoy.

So if Yan Yan likes basketball she should go for it.

My name's Wang Hongyan, I'm 12 years old this year.

I play basketball five to six hours a day.

There aren't a lot of girls

who like to play basketball.

I'm not worried about playing basketball with boys.

Because I am just as strong as a boy.

What boys can do, I can do, too.

Because I'm the only girl who can outplay the boys,

they are all jealous of me.

My dream is to become a basketball player

and stand on the international podium holding the trophy.

I must train hard.

I also need to study hard.

Then I can become a basketball player.

I'm proud of playing basketball.

It makes me feel very happy.

This is my home.

We have seven family members.

Dad, Mum, sister, brother and grandma.

My wife doesn't know about basketball.

But she supports me and Yan Yan to play basketball.

I'm going to take part in

Yao Ming Hope Foundation Basketball Clinic.

I'm very excited and happy.

I hope to see Yao Ming.

Because Yao Ming is my idol.

I may have a chance to show my potential

on the basketball court.

Since 2008,

more people are playing basketball in our town

Yan Yan is leaving this town

for the big city to play basketball.

She'll become more knowledgeable

and experienced in life.

So I support her.

(YINCHUAN, CAPITAL OF NINGXIA)

Working with this foundation

is part of the Hope Basketball Season,

where we've now trained

and had 300,000 children participate across China

in almost 25 provinces, where they've been able to

play the game of basketball through Yao.

(YAO MING HOPE FOUNDATION BASKETBALL CLINIC)

(YINCHUAN NO. 3 MIDDLE SCHOOL)

We go to the very far-reaching parts of China

where kids may not have the privilege to

travel for a game,

and give them some of their first experiences

with the game of basketball.

And that's really delighted us.

We have a camp, a week-long camp for kids.

Hopefully they enjoy it. Not only the basketball,

but also, more than the competition,

more than winning a game, I hope they learn the courage,

learn the teamwork,

chemistry,

communication, and attitude in there.

And that is what the sports educate me

during my career.

My dream is to become a basketball player

like Yao Ming.

The Yao Foundation has been really helpful

for countryside kids,

and I hope that more rural kids can have opportunities

to participate in these programmes.

I hope Yao Foundation will always come

that very helpful to rural kids.

I liked the indoor training session the best.

We practised the correct shooting moves,

and how to dribble properly.

During the last four years,

more than 350 schools joined the programme,

spread out in China.

We feel very proud of that.

We hope kids enjoy the basketball

and go back home,

not only bring the memory of the basketball game.

but also the memory of with their friends,

with their coaches,

all the people who helped them to learn the work.

I saw Yao Ming on TV in 2008 and he became my idol.

(BEIJING 2008 OLYMPIC GAMES)

(HOSTING THE OLYMPIC GAMES AT HOME IN 2008)

(ENABLED MANY CHILDREN IN RURAL CHINA TO WATCH)

(THEIR SPORTING HEROES ON TV FOR THE FIRST TIME)

I told Yao Ming my hobby is basketball.

And that he is my idol.

Yao Ming asked me,

"Are you happy to come here to play basketball?"

I told him, I was very, very happy.

and Yao Ming said,

"Hope I can see you again."

(COMING OF AGE: CHINA AFTER BEIJING 2008)

For more infomation >> The Yao Effect: Basketball in Rural China and Minority Groups | Coming of Age - Duration: 9:04.

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Giacomo Voli - Crowdfunding Musicraiser 2017 - Duration: 3:11.

Hi everybody, welcome to my Musicraiser promo! My name's Giacomo Voli, I'm a musician and composer from Italy

Someone of you can remember me because of my participation on "The Voice of Italy" in 2014

Today, my wish to realize my own full Long Playing in Italian can become true with Musicraiser. Crowdfunding will help me to bear the expenses of my new album

I'm really proud of my work: listen to some examples in the music background

It will contains 8 songs and it will be 40 minutes long

These songs was born to be played live, powerful but still melodic

Upcoming Album will be named "Prigionieri Liberi", and it will be my first LP.

It was born about two years ago with Daniela Ridolfi, a very nice songwriter from Florence, that gave an incredible quality to my music: she's a real friend for me!

Meanwhile I was creating my music Daniela took care especially for the lyrics, and together we gave birth to something unique here in Italy.

MUSICRAISER is a very professional website (if you look to all the projects you can agree with me)

Musicraiser can realize a real exchange between you and me, giving you a lot of different rewards you can choose with a click.

My musicians:

Riccardo Bacchi, guitars and choirs

Demis Castellari, drums and fun

Federico Festa, bass guitar

Mattia Rubizzi, keyboards

Musicraiser will give the chance to bring my music in Italy, I was born to be rock!

I wanna be myself...

It's easy to donate so...don't be shy: just be ROCK!!!

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【MUKBANG】 [High Calories] Huge Fried Potato Cheese Cake! 2Kg And Over 3550kcal [CC Available] - Duration: 7:43.

Hello its Kinoshita Yuka (Eng subs by ~Aphexx~)

so today! tadaa I've made these ginormous potato mochi with cheese inside

those who are in the know already know what these potato mochi already are but

you take a potato add starch and fry it to make something that is soft and chewy

so today I made these giant versons of these which look like the size of okonomiyaki pancakes

yep I made these today so lets see how its made

tadaa we'll be using these this is powdered mashed potato

you can make them from regular potaotes but these are so convenient I'll be using them today

add butter to a bowl, hot water, milk, and our mashed potato powder

and in another bowl the mashed potaBO~

in another bowl add the powdered potato

oh noes! I forgot the starch well it shouldn't matter if its halfway thru

and another thing just came to mind. if you add the liquids according to directions it will

turn out too watery so please use your best judgement when making this

you want it to be a consistency sort of like some play dough

seems easier if you mix by hand as well since we added warm water it feels so good

once it loses that powdery feel its good to go I've made about 2kg worth of taters here

grab an amount that you feel is right and tadaa add plenty of cheese to the middle

then wrap it K this is what it looks like

melt plenty of butter in a pan

2minutes one side

2 minutes the other side

flip once more and lid for an additional minute

K, fancy it up with some parsely and its done

K they should look something like this ~looks so delish ~

that aroma of butter and potato is so nice itadakimasu

would be awesome if the cheese got properly melted inside I'll cut into it

can you see it? its stringy

K it looks like this ~delish~

should I have put more in?

I'll not try some without any toppings

delish

potatoes alone are usually sort of dry and since we've added starch to this its sort of chewy like a mochi

its so delish and the cheese is a wonderful touch here I am making these ginormous portions but....

I've been thinkin' that smaller ones would have been better with smaller sizes you get more crust with it and stuff

maybe a bit more cheese in it as well however these are delish as well

there is roughly 2kg worth of stuff in here all said

the cheese is so gushing out and so delish

I've prepped all sorts of toppings for today but lets start with this honey here

this stuff is the 'bestest'

honey is so wonderful

honey always goes so nicely with the salty cheese but it does work nicely with potato as well

delish!!! its definitely better with honey

perhaps its because I made these giant portions though

second one and for the second one....

tadaa my favourite #BFFMayo

looks sort of like a cake or something

since the potato is on the dry side its better with plenty of sauce on it

if you didn't know potato salad uses quite a shocking amount of mayo in it....Yup....

ahh this wonderful cheese

delish however I prefer the honey over this

with only the mayo this potato is rather bland......

omg oops I called it bland... lol it tastes delish but..... salt? perhaps it needs more salt?

mayo mellows out things with a very pronounced strong flavor but with something with a light taste to it you need just a bit more

this tastes better but yeah..... I like the honey better I think

lets add a bit of sauce here

I'm turning this into an okonomiyaki now...

the parsley looks like a little forest

delish

coke goes best with potato

third one I prefer honey the most

last one so its been sitting out since I last fried it so I'm

gonna go warm this up again K, I've gone and warmed it up

tadaa and I've brought out this honey maple sauce from KFC

so good and now we've added the KFC biscuit flavor to it

cheese is the 'bestest'

honey maple goes great with it that maple flavor is so nice

when its cold it loses that chewy texture its way better when its warm and chewy

last mouthful itadakimasu

gochisosmadeshita the giant potato mochi with cheese was delish

perhaps adding some sugar to the potato mix or or some salt would have made it better

if I make this another time I'll definitely change up the recipe it was so delish when you added all sorts of toppings to it as well

for me I really liked this honey flaovr I preferred the honey or this honey maple sauce

for a sweet tooth like me it is my preference these were so delish won't you all give it a try?

well please adjust the recipe to suit your tastes but I will write them down for you guys to try

and as always thanks for watching and if you liked this video please hit the like and subscribe buttons BAI BAI

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Disinfezione Palestra Quadraro Boxe - Duration: 14:07.

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🌎T Rap - Look How I Live (Trinidad Rap) - Duration: 2:56.

yeah yeah

and another one yeah.

yeah.. trap x3

yeah nah we jus . we just fucking with the beat,

turn that shit on dog turn it up, yeah

miss me with the with that hard core shit

with that hard core shit nigga look what i did

i dont gotta prove shit i dont gotta prove shit

nigga look at my clip i dont gotta say shit, they already full clip

nigga look how i live look how i live

yeah

look how i look how i live... heart colder than a fridge...

some niggas just wont understand now some niggas they just claim they the man now

some niggas think the kings of the land now i let them have it all like uncle sam now

3rd album 4th coming

all my niggas wear red and they still be guning bitch stuning

still stuning skipped school

like fuck it trying to make it to the top was my favorite

subject had to do sum from em

sold packs as i got em owing me was the problem

did robberies to solve em fake friends we all got em

And you talking like you made it too the top my flow tighter than a head-lock

i never left the block ask gaga

And das a big boy name to all you punk rappers burning hemp backwards

dirty flip flops on same colour as the mattress spitting raw freestyles and dont have to practice

this is fucking madness the most underrated rapper never manufactured

A lot of questions people ask still unanswered

yeah yeah..

miss me with that with that hard core shit

with that hard core shit nigga look what i did

i dont gotta prove shit i dont gotta prove shit

nigga look at my clip i dont gotta say shit they already full clip

nigga look how i live look how i live

look how i look how i ...live x4

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Taylor Swift in the Haunted Hallway! - Duration: 2:48.

We set you to through the hunted hallway.

- And we wanted to see how you do in our haunted hallway. - I hate haunted things.

I know, but you went through. I am so proud of you.

- Houses, haunted, anyway.

- Hallways, houses. Alright. - Anything.

Let's take a look on how you did.

I purposely don't go to hunted house.

I don't wanna go in it.

Do you guys hear the music they're playing?

I don't wanna go in it.

I really, I don't wanna go in it.

Okay, the music is getting better.

Okay, the music is less scary now.

I don't wanna do it.

I don't want it. I don't want it . I don't want it.

Ahh! Stop doing that!

This was horrible.

It's a horrible thing!

Stop it. Stop it. Stop it...

I hated it. I hated it. I hated it. I hated it.

Oh my God!

Those are terrifying.

I got you something in case we didn't, I forgot to give you this

in case you're so scared of earwigs.

You can sleep with this.

These are earwigs.

Oh my god. - See?

Wow.

Not only is it in fact a earwigs that apparently don't go in your ears

but it is beautiful.

And I got you some Ellen socks.

Oh my god! Thank you!

These are cool. - I know! They're cute, right?

I didn't know you have these. - We do.

We have Ellen socks.

Thank you.

Okay, you're welcome.

And, also,

since your CD is of course gonna be No. 1

The Deluxe version is only available at Target.

You're all gonna get a Target gift card

and get yourself one.

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2017 acm WINNERS ARE - Duration: 3:39.

HEY TRIPPSTERS

2017

ACM

WINNERS

SPOILER ALERT

If you do NOT want to know who won

The 2017 ACM Awards

stop watching this video now

Because i'm about to tell you who won

in every single category

The Video of the year

and i have to say, I totally called this one

the VIDEO of the year is

i kinda figured that one would win because

of all of the stars that was in it

plus the song was really good even though

it was 2 or 3 songs squished together

i just kinda figured, with all that star power behind it

it kinda almost had to win

the VOCAL EVENT of the year

and i have to say, i was really happy about that onebecause

i Love that song

and the SONG of the year is

and the SINGLE of the year

now

i know i did a video previously on the next 3 that you're about to see

but since they were announced i wanna go ahead and incluse those in the video so

so your NEW MALE artist of the year was

and your NEW FEMALE artist of the year

and the NEW VOCAL DUO or GROUP of the year

and now we start to get into the really big ones of the night guys

Your VOCAL GROUP of the year

and the DUO of the year

now i have to say, that one actually surprised me

because that one has gone to Florida Georgia Line for so long that i

i really really thought that they would get it again

so i was actually shocked by that one

and your ALBUM of the year

and the MALE artists of the year

the FEMALE artist of the year

Now the really big one of the night

the one we've all been waiting for

the ENTERTAINER OF THE YEAR is

and there is all of your winners from the 2017 ACM awards

now the only thing i was disappointed in that is

that Garth was not nominated

but i'm a huge fan as you guys know

so i'm a little prejudice when it comes to that

but tother than that, i was fairly happy with

pretty much all of the winners, now honestly i did not see the show

i just got the list of winners

so i don't really know how the performances went or anything

if you guys saw it let me know

you know,

who did the best performance

and what you guys thought about all those

although i have to say, i was kind of rooting for Brandy Clark to win NEW FEMALE vocalist

But i just thought i would give you guys the list

i hope you guys enjoyed it, i hope you're happy with the winners

and uh

That is gonna do it for now

This is ICEPETS QUEEN

and i am

TRIPPIN OUT

For more infomation >> 2017 acm WINNERS ARE - Duration: 3:39.

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Day 51:10 of 101 Quotes from Jim Rohn - Duration: 4:51.

Hello hello Ollie Ocampo here from ollieocampo.com a.k.a. Alkaline Ollie

Coming at ya from Kaneohe, Hawaii

I'm about 30 minutes from Honolulu.

where they filmed movies like Godzilla and Kong, Skull Island

We're continuing with our 101 Success Quotes from Jim Rohn

Thank you for tuning in again. I love you guys for that.

If you like what you see and hear please add comment and share it.

Visit my blog at www.ollieocampo.com

I appreciate you guys. YOU ROCK!

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국내도입이 시급한 핀란드 교육 - Duration: 2:28.

Finland, a tiny nation of 5.5 million people is the top educational performer in Europe and one of the strongest in the world.

Singapore, Japan, and South Korea are also strong performers but are also famous for their high suicide rates among students...

We found some of the reasons why the Finnish school systems produces such excellent results...

2. Teachers Don't Teach to the Test

Despite the fact that Finnish children routinely achieve top scores on international math and reading tests, standardized testing isn't part of the Finnish educational system.

The only mandated standardized test for Finnish students comes at the end of the senior year of high school.

The lack of emphasis on standardized tests means that Finnish teachers have a great deal of flexibility in how they structure their

lessons i.e. an elementary school teacher can focus primarily on science one week, if the children seem especially engaged in the

topics at hand and the freedom to evaluate the progress of their students using more individualized metrics.

1. Everyone Attends Public School

One of the most unusual, and some would say, most overlooked, aspects of the Finnish school system is the near-universal attendance of public schools.

The Finnish cultural tendency to value cooperation over competition, is one of the reasons why Finland's schools are so strong.

Something that works well at one school is quickly shared with others, so that best practices can reach every student, because schools do not see themselves as competing for students or test scores.

Practically, there's no way to truly opt out of the public school system in Finland, so everyone is equally invested in the quality of the schools.

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Hiking to the State Parks, A Walk Across Texas - Duration: 12:15.

[traffic passing]

- DAVE: A lot of people stop when they see me on the road.

"Why are you walking?"

They offer me a ride, and I have to turn them down.

One guy says, "You mean you're doing this on purpose?"

It's not a race, it's not a program.

It's more like a lifestyle.

This is just what I wanna be doing.

- NARRATOR: Dave Roberts is out for a walk.

He has been for months.

- DAVE: I'm a little more than three months

since I left New Orleans.

- NARRATOR: Dave is walking to New Mexico,

taking in miles of Texas along the way.

- DAVE: That looks like a watermelon from here.

Palmetto is my 26th state park.

I've gone about 2,200 miles since New Orleans,

so I'm more than halfway through the state of Texas.

One guy says, "Well, you know, there's a bus.

"You can just take a bus to El Paso."

He didn't get it.

I think I'd rather walk.

[upbeat music]

[footsteps]

I don't wanna just sit at home

and play card games on the computer

and raid the refrigerator every 10 minutes and get fat and lazy.

I wanna be outdoors, I wanna breathe unfiltered air.

I want the weather to affect me.

I wanna meet people I've never met.

I wanna go places I've never been.

And that's the lifestyle that I've chosen for myself.

Since I left New Orleans, I've used up five pairs of shoes.

And I'm ready for my sixth,

so I'll get a pair in one of these towns.

[music]

This is the kind I normally get right here,

but they don't have my size.

They look like they'll work.

Ten bucks, [laughs] I'm buying $10 shoes.

Okay, now I need to get a new pair of insoles.

They last about 400 miles per pair.

They were getting a little thin on the bottom.

[register beeps]

I just didn't wanna feel the road under my feet

and so I bought a new pair of shoes.

- STORE CLERK: Be safe.

- DAVE: Thank you.

They're comfortable, they work,

and I'm happy as a clam.

- NARRATOR: Using up shoes traversing Texas on foot

may sound extreme, but this is just one in a series

of outdoor adventures for Dave.

[upbeat guitar music]

- I'm weaving across America.

I didn't start out with that in mind,

just happened one step at a time.

It all started hiking Appalachian Trail.

[upbeat guitar music]

I was just gonna hike the trail and go home.

But it was such an awesome experience,

I didn't want it to stop.

When I got to Maine, I rode my bicycle to Florida

and then I hiked the Florida Trail,

and so I find I'm zig-zagging across the country.

Somewhere in Florida, I got the idea that,

I think I'll paddle down the Mississippi River,

so how do I get to Minnesota?

I'll ride my bike.

Hiking, biking and paddling.

This summer, I paddle down the Mississippi River.

So I had to get from New Orleans to New Mexico,

so how do you get there?

Well, you walk across Texas.

[truck passes]

And so that's what I'm doing.

I'm visiting state parks,

and right now I'm in Lockhart, Texas.

This is my 27th one, I think.

I told some of my friends,

"Ah, I'm gonna walk across Texas,"

and they said, "Why Texas?"

You know, they think Texas is just desert.

I said, "Well, I looked at the website,

"and it looks to me like there's a lot more

than just desert out there."

[birds chirping]

- Past your campsite, there's more trails...

- DAVE: Visiting state parks has made my trip

much more interesting.

- You're all set.

- Okay, thank you very much.

I've met some of the most warmhearted people

I've ever met in Louisiana and Texas.

I made a spreadsheet.

At 15 miles a day, how many state parks can I do?

That came out to 23 state parks.

When I got to Tyler, I was a week and a half

ahead of schedule.

I was doing 23 miles a day, not 15.

So far, I've done Village Creek, Martin Dies, Mission Tejas,

Martin Creek, Tyler, Daingerfield, Bob Sandlin,

Cooper, Bonham, Eisenhower, Ray Roberts, Richardson,

Possum Kingdom, Mineral Wells, Dinosaur Valley, [laughs]

Cleburne, Whitney, Meridian, Mother Neff, Colorado Bend,

um, Inks Lake, Enchanted Rock, McKinney Falls,

Bastrop, Buescher, Palmetto, and Lockhart.

And I have 13 to go.

Something like that.

[slow instrumental music]

That's my tent.

This is my sleeping pad.

This my food.

That's the heavy one.

My sleeping bag.

And this is my dry clothing.

And that's it.

This is the fourth tent I've had in two years.

One was lost, one was stolen,

one was melted in a dryer,

and now I have this one.

My budget is 20 dollars a day.

For a lot of people, getting by isn't really enough.

The attitude is more important than the gear.

Put all my stuff in it, and then I'm ready

to have lunch and take a walk.

I don't have a knife, so I cut my cheese with my teeth

and I put on my salsa.

I was having three of these for lunch a day,

and realized that I was still hungry,

and so now I have four.

[laughs]

[crickets chirp]]

I have a saying, if everything goes according to plan,

you're not having an adventure yet [laughs].

It's really blowing.

- NARRATOR: Two months and one pair of shoes later,

Dave is in far west Texas.

- This is quite a headwind we got here today.

- NARRATOR: He's back on the road after a medical time out.

- I had a pain in my chest, went to the doctor,

and he suggested I go for further checkups,

so I went home to do that.

- NARRATOR: The diagnosis?

Heart burn.

- There's nothing wrong with me.

Physically, I'm in good shape, but I need to change my diet,

and I'm glad I did that.

- NARRATOR: Dave picked up where he left off in Del Rio.

After days crossing desert, he is outside Fort Davis.

- Now I feel assured, if I'm out in the middle of nowhere

a thousand miles from the nearest hospital,

that I'm okay.

I feel confident to just go and do it at my age.

I'm 72.

[truck passing]

My biggest concern, going from here to El Paso,

is getting enough water.

- After the pecan orchards, there's really not much water...

till Van Horn.

- NARRATOR: Where towns are scarce,

Dave eats dehydrated meals his daughter mails,

and what food he can find to fit his budget and backpack.

[jazzy music]

Two boxes of cereal.

That's three days.

These are gonna be my dinners.

Sandwich bags.

My pack weighs 13 pounds, plus food and water.

Four days worth of food, that's 10 pounds right there.

This is heavy too, but you gotta eat [laughs].

- CLERK: That's gonna be $28.92.

- DAVE: That's not bad.

- There you go.

I wish you good luck.

- DAVE: Thanks a lot.

Here I go.

Ooh, this is heavy now.

- NARRATOR: Not surprisingly, Dave skips convenience

for primitive camping.

[footsteps, wind]

- In a way, I'm out here to escape...

the hubbub and the business of the modern world.

I can live in that world, but I prefer this.

It's actually beautiful.

You get to see forever up here.

Took me an hour and a half to get up here,

[laughs] but it was worth it.

[somber instrumental music]

Twenty to twenty-five years ago, I had a dream.

In my dream, I died and I went to heaven.

Saint Peter looks at me, and he looks down at his book,

and he looks at me again, and he says,

"Why didn't you take advantage

of what they had to offer down there?"

End of dream.

That's why I woke up and I said,

"Wow, that's pretty powerful."

So not long after that, I quit my job,

and I decided that I was going to spend

the rest of my life volunteering.

So I joined the Peace Corps.

- NARRATOR: A mountaintop seems like the perfect place

to contemplate the next adventure.

- My next adventure is to hike the Continental Divide Trail,

which goes from Mexico to Canada.

The Triple Crown is the Appalachian Trail,

the Continental Divide Trail and the Pacific Crest Trail.

I've already done the AT, planning to do the CDT

this summer, and if I can do the Pacific Crest Trail,

then that's the Triple Crown.

Nobody that I know has ever done the Triple Crown

entirely after the age of 70,

so that'll be my claim to fame,

for what it's worth [laughs].

To me, this is just really special.

Being up here in God's country

and being able to see the sunset from a setting like this.

That's part of the reward, it's part of it.

I'd climb quite a few mountains to see something like that.

This is my front yard [laughs].

[inspirational instrumental music]

♪ ♪

When I get up in the morning,

I just get up, pack up, and go.

My Texas adventure was awesome.

I feel like I belong.

It's not like you're just out there.

I didn't feel alone at all, because there's so many people

that are interested in what I'm doing.

- Travel safe.

- DAVE: Thank you, Texas.

Looking to see where I'm gonna be going today.

There's a lot of nothing out there.

If you are looking for something to do

during your time, don't do what I'm doing.

Look deep in yourself, and find out what is the thing

that you can do that nobody else can do.

And do it.

[inspirational instrumental music]

♪ ♪

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