Sam Walker’s Desert Diaries - Highlights
Excerpts from the multi-award winning podcast
Summary
What's it like to actually follow your dreams? Desert Diaries is the brutally honest account of one family's move from the rainy suburbs of Manchester to the scorched wilderness of Arizona. Excitement, frustration, fear, joy, loneliness and scorpions.
Quite a lot of scorpions. All life is here.
Awards
Winner - British Podcast Awards 2020
Best Entertainment Podcast - Bronze
Winner - Best of Phoenix 2020
Best Podcast, Phoenix New Times
Best Entertainment Podcast - Bronze
Winner - Best of Phoenix 2020
Best Podcast, Phoenix New Times
Reviews
| Episode | Player | Description |
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| 1 |  Do you have a crazy dream? Have you done anything about it?
We did and we did nothing for years. Nothing. But then we did. And here is how it all began. | |
| 2 |  Week one: We made it....but only just! | |
| 5 |  Week four: AGHHHHHHH!! Feeling 17 again, for ALL the wrong reasons...... | |
| 7 |  Week six: It's so hot, I feel like a Sunday Roast. Not eating one, I feel like I am one. And life and housework goes on, but it's fun to find the joy in the mundane.
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| 10 |  Week nine: Our furniture finally arrives after its epic journey and we move into our new house...where horror awaits!
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| 14 |  Week thirteen: La La Land. We nip up the road to Hollywood. | |
| 17 |  Week sixteen: A devastating week for our family when we get a cruel reminder that with adventure, comes risk. | |
| 18 |  Week seventeen: The dog finds us our first live snake! We ride back in time on our first desert trek and learn the legend of lost gold!
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| 19 |  Week eighteen: I finally pass my driving test...28 years after taking my first one! Life throws us a curve ball and I need to leave the USA.
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| 20 |  Week nineteen: I head to Australia to wait and see how sick my mum is. Its the second time in my life I hadn't planned to go to Perth, but ended up there....
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| 21 |  Week twenty: Faced with a dreadful prognosis, we decide not to wait for someone to tell us how long my mum has left to live and decide to go out and find life.
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| 22 |  Week twenty-one: Mum and I keep driving north, through desert, alongside dramatic cliffs and reach a kind of paradise. But all good things must come to an end...
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| 28 |  Week twenty-seven: We visit the amazing town of Jerome and learn about wine, ghosts and women of the night! We wave goodbye to family and I leave Arizona again!
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| 31 |  Week thirty: As we host our first ever Thanksgiving with new friends, I take stock of the last six months and share some challenges I haven't mentioned before.
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| 33 |  Week thirty-two: I head off on a three-state road trip and discover Trump's America.
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| 36 |  Week thirty-five: We ring in the new year in both London and Phoenix but get distracted by a desert menagerie in our garden! | |
| 43 |  Week forty-two: The big decisions we made cause some anxiety about letting go of the past
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| 58 |  After a horrible experience with a huge bully, we set off to find solace in a very British way!
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| 59 |  An unbelievable week involving wild claims, violent threats, police escorts and massive trucks. | |
| 60 |  We escape the valley for a few days, before continued adventures with trucks and a big problem with a lack of water. | |
| 68 |  Attempts to buy the most simple of items brings home the fact that the United States and Great Britain are indeed, as George Bernard Shaw wrote, two countries separated by a common language! | |
| 76 |  School is back for the autumn, but the weather has yet to catch up. A trip to the shops take us down an unexpected rabbit hole.... | |
| 78 |  A week full of wonderful adventures and very difficult news.
This one is for you Abigail Goswell. x |