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Travelers around the world are seeking ways to form deeper, more emotional connections to the places they visit, but the solution can be as simple as slowing down and taking it one step, or pedal, at a time.
With countries worldwide bragging about their ever-faster trains and present-day air travel making it quick to get just about anywhere, it seems counterintuitive that some travelers would look for a way to actually slow down their transportation.
Biking, however, makes up for its speed with a richer experience and deeper local connection than trains and planes could ever foster. With the goal of telling these incredible stories of long-distance bike travel, Lucas Winzenburg created the magazine Bunyan Velo as a project to get him through a cold Minnesota winter.
Winzenburg, an outreach coordinator for the Polar Geospatial Center by day and editor by nights and weekends, has worked on Bunyan Velo as a passion project for almost two years. He's published four issues and worked with 45 writers and photographers who all agree that traveling slower is often traveling better.
Winzenburg will speak October 9 about the joys of slow travel at the Skift Global Forum on The Future of Travel. Skift caught up with Winzenburg to learn more about the magazine's start and why he thinks more travelers should slow down between point A and B.
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