The most traveled overlander you have never heard of Adam Shani.

On this episode of the Overland Journal Podcast, host Scott Brady interviews Israeli traveler Adam Shani about growing up on a southern Israel kibbutz, where community, humility, self-reliance, fixing machinery, and non-consumerism shaped him. Adam describes Israel’s compulsory military service, volunteering for special forces, enduring demanding training, and learning perseverance, logistics, survival skills, and controlling one’s response under hardship—lessons he later used in travel. He recounts his first major expedition in 2000: flying disassembled Honda XR600s to Cape Town and riding to Ethiopia on a low budget, then returning to work nearly a year on a Botswana farm amid dangerous wildlife.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.