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Motivational Adventure Speaker Michael Wigge for 2023/2024

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What Challenges Did the Adventure Speaker Face?

Michael Wigge left Berlin in June 2010 and traveled for 150 days through 11 countries, arriving in Antarctica in November 2010. More than 100 people helped, providing transportation, food, and accommodation. He planned the journey for a year before starting, collecting contact information for those who might provide accommodations or odd jobs, but he also relied on the kindness of strangers.

At first, Wigge scrounged for food from garbage bins behind supermarkets, but he soon realized that dumpster diving wasn’t necessary. Instead, he discovered he could barter for what he needed. He offered to clean the floor, wipe the counters, or wash the dishes in a restaurant in exchange for an old sandwich. And most people he approached in shops, supermarkets, and restaurants were willing to give something.

At first, Wigge scrounged for food from garbage bins behind supermarkets, but he soon realized that dumpster diving wasn’t necessary. Instead, he discovered he could barter for what he needed. He offered to clean the floor, wipe the counters, or wash the dishes in a restaurant in exchange for an old sandwich. And most people he approached in shops, supermarkets, and restaurants were willing to give something.

In Latin America, he found that “people were accommodating if I went to their door and said, ‘I have no idea where I will sleep tonight, can I sleep here?’ There was this helpfulness, this hospitality, because many people there are poor and they know how it feels. They didn’t care about my story. But in the U.S., it was more about the story. They would say, ‘This is cool; we want to help you reach your goal.’ Americans really go for this.”

Adventure speaker Wigge’s stint as a porter carrying tourists’ luggage in exchange for a trip to Machu Picchu, the ancient Inca city in the Peruvian Andes, ended “in a bit of a mess. I was the worst porter the Andes had ever seen,” he said. The other workers were accustomed to handling tents and meals for tourists along the 50-mile, five-day route, then running ahead carrying 60 pounds of luggage on their backs in time to set up the next campsite before the tourists arrived, all at 14,000-foot elevations. But Wigge needed more stamina to keep up. “They said, ‘This is not funny; you cannot do this; we do not want to lose our clients,'” he recalled. “I apologized.” After two days, they put his luggage on horses and allowed him to walk regularly rather than staying behind and running ahead to help with campsites.

Adventure speaker Wigge kept a “video diary” to produce a TV series eventually. Wigge carried a Canon HDV 1080i camera with an excellent wide-angle lens and microphone to film himself and collect footage that was high-enough quality for TV. He ended up with dozens of tapes, edited to five 30-minute segments. Unfortunately, he nearly lost the precious videos while staying with a German ex-pat in Cuzco, Peru. “The whole apartment burned down before we went to sleep,” Wigge said. But he got his travel bag — including the videos and camera — out and philosophically looked back on the incident: “We are still alive.”

Once he’d achieved his goal of starting with no money and completing a one-way trip to Antarctica, he had no qualms about accessing a bank account for a return fare to Germany.

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Part 1 “Everything is Different”

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The adventure speaker sets off from Germany without any money. His travel companions along the way are socialists, freegans, and the eccentric millionaire Harold. Working on a container ship, Wigge crosses the Atlantic Ocean free of charge. Will he make it to the New World without money?

Part 2 “Burger, Bikes & Boors”

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Adventure speaker Michael Wigge sleeps in Montreal free of charge as a couch surfer. After walking through Ohio, he reaches the tiny village of Berlin, where Amish farmers take him in and let him sleep in their barn. After a grueling tour by bike and bus, Wigge spends several days with homeless man Joseph. Will Wigge manage to get further West?

Part 3 “Adventure Speaker, Go West!”

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Via Route 66, the adventure speaker hitchhikes to the Grand Canyon and to Las Vegas, where he tries different approaches to earn food and transport. He meets millionaires, gamblers, and tourists. After Los Angeles and San Francisco, Wigge lives in Hawaii with alternative life stylers – all without money, of course.

Part 4 “No Dinero – ‘Mucho Problemo'”

Traveling without money takes the adventure speaker through Costa Rica, Panama, and Columbia, where living and traveling without money is particularly difficult. In Peru, he visits the Inca town of Machu Picchu free of charge as a load carrier. Now he suffers from a streak of bad luck. Will he have to cancel his journey?

Part 5 of the Project: “Totally Exhausted”

After difficult times in Bolivia, adventure speaker Wigge travels to Chile without any money. From there, he hitchhikes to Buenos Aires in Argentina. But rather than dancing the Tango, he has to find food and a means to travel on. After an arduous journey through Tierra del Fuego, Wigge accepts the long-desired position on a ship to Antarctica. Will he finally reach Antarctica without any money?

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