Walking 90km to work changed my life
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- Опубликовано: 8 апр 2024
- I first walked to work in the early summer of 2014. Door to door, my university job was 93 kilometres away, or 90 when I took missguided shortcuts. After a few years of talking about doing more adventuring in closer to home places, often called mundane, places that would never have a postcard printed in their honour, I decided to walk from my porch to my desk. A trip that takes 75 minutes in the old ute would take me at least 30 hours, and would either make my theory on backyard adventuring come to life, or kill it in its tracks. To help make things interesting I left with nothing but the clothes on my back (and hat), and would make shelter, find food, collect water, and do whatever it took to get to work as late as possible. This was my first backyard adventure and it worked.
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Produced and Directed by
BEAU MILES
Produced and Edited by
MITCH DRUMMOND
Filmed in 2014 by
BRETT CAMPBELL
MITCH DRUMMOND
Final Sound Mix
JAMES DOBSON
Colour Correction
LUCY CAWOOD
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It's not the distance or the adventures that surprises me, its Beau's immune system...
Idk how this man is still alive honestly, truly amazing
edit: but still not immune to salmonella
@@xXJAng3lXxx at this point he's fortified his immune system so well he can't die.
Imagine walking all that way, drinking and eating what you find by the road.... Then getting salmonella from an office sandwich
@@markdammes1947 he literally taped on wet moldy boots onto his blistered feet too. His immune system must be working extremely well if that didn't lead to problems either
IKR!?! Damn!
Drinking that Pepsi Piss Bottle was the bravest thing I have ever seen
Bravest thing Ive ever seen, 50/50 that was a bottle of urine
My vote is for urine. That was way too see-through to be Pepsi. So gross, Beau!
100 piss
Good tasting piss??
Cola's do turn yellow when in the sun for a couple of days, but I still wouldn't have drank it.
Imagine the strength of this man’s gut micro biome.
"maybe a few bites" and then shove the entire apple in his mouth
Ya cus that “Pepsi” looked like pee😊
25:32 and yet, the unhealthiest thing he ate turned out to be the sandwiches at the office
you don't need a microsope to watch his microbiota flex.
After being submerged and wading through all of the sickest rivers in his region, I've actually got money on Beau has developed super powers by now... - he should also probably double check every mole on his body daily.
Imagine you’re having your morning coffee, you look outside and see a man eating your roses 😅
😂😂😂😂😂
😂😂😂😂😮
What amazes me the most is your lack of disgust of anything.
In a post-apocalyptic world, Beau would thrive.
1000%
Mad Max was from Australia
*will
@@sethman1591 Would*. Since OP is hypothetical.
@@snakejuce The lip packs is right around the corner mate.
I never thought I’d watch a video of a guy drinking piss out of a bottle on the side of the road and still be inspired. What a time to be alive.
That made me want to toss lip balm and band aids out my car window. But then I realized that there is only one Beau.
🤣🤣🤣 yup, the thought crossed my mind too…
Legendary comment!
I tried this when I was homeless in Cali and bored. That’s the ONE thing cops won’t let you do. Walk on the side of the highway to another town.
He could just be walking up your road any day now..
There are millions of people every day looking down while they walk for "the next best item" for their inventory. Don't take anything for granted in life.
We should study that blokes immune system.
He had a T and B cell for every possible foreign substance in the world
Lol i also eat road food(and a lot of dumpster diving food) and i gotta say i rarely get sick. Ive been around people with strep throat for days n didnt get it. Did ya see his "side of the road wine" video, its great
Please can you explain the studying of the immune system is it because of the walking
@@Plug042 because he's eating & drinking all that stuff he's picking up from the road 🤣 Like the pepsi piss bottle.
@@Sibert_ damn
gasped out loud when you drank the piss bottle. Brave man.
Didnt he give it a smell 1st? If it was piss it would be hard to miss.
It was a bottle of rhabdomyolyse. Look it up.
Pea soup
It was 100% piss, so thirsty didn't notice
@@EarthlyEden1 rhabdomyolysis?🤔 that's a medical condition🤔
So this guy is like new character in an RPG heading towards his first quest ("Go to work") and picking random loot and drinking unidentified potions
Should've craft a backpack tho
It wasn’t a strength potion 😂
One looks like urine I’m sure cola/pepsi is brown
What crafting level is he is should fight some goblins for some gp
Dude found a sleeping bag.
He must save a shed of gp there should be more people like this.
I’m not one of ‘em but I like the enthusiasm of the adventure and the cleaning up videos are truly inspiring.
I hate the fake look at me picking up stuff on the beach and then dropping it off camera for like posted by other dickheads on TikTok and RUclips.
You’re the real deal and it’s amazing to see.
Shame on the rest of us who don’t do enough for our planet and a better future.
You need to get out more dude….maybe touch some grass 😂
@@Canigetanawwwwyyyyeeeah yeah, I think that's the point of video too
Only beau sits on a video this good for a decade
Beau's wife could of gone her entire life happily without this footage ever being reuploaded
Why?
@@rileyontheroad when she kissed him, she got second-hand piss bottle
Could have
Beau , at sixty years old , some have called me a walking fool . Having traversed almost 70% of the great alpine trail , blisters where the small price for life clarity. Many great thoughts and ideas are developed by the rhythmic repartition of foot to ground. Oddly more the pain greater the gain , you appear to hold a similar philosophy..
This post displays how far you have come, back then a walk , now a walks with incredible purpose. Such as your last high Plains trek ..
Keep walking, looking n thinking, it always leads you home to your treasures..
Cheers mate , thanks for allowing us to think too..
Literal poet
Keep it up mate, 60 is the new 20!
You got me teared up and shi
We were made for walking, not sitting at desks. Using all our senses.
I wonder.
How many miles has Miles miled.
How many smiles has Miles made smile.
A crazy adventure.
Some selfless acts.
Beau Miles rules.
And thats a fact.
This reminds me of the one day I woke up and just decided I'd walk a bit. Ended up walking 68 KM from one town to the other. Don't regret that one bit. I can't walk anymore...
Wow that's truly an amazing endeavour to do spontaneously! May I ask why you cannot walk anymore?
@@rakadoni8403 I have a neuromuscular disorder that is graduality taking it's toll. It's called Friedreich's Ataxia
I don't believe you
@@samholdsworth420 Why? Because he's able to do the most basic of activities and you can't? 😂
@@ArthurB26 No, probably because this is RUclips comments.
Here let me show ya...
I once walked backwards 20 miles uphill to see my grandma and when I got there she wasn't home. Imagine that... Well it turns out my grandma had walked 20 miles uphill the opposite direction to see our grandpa.
See, that's all possible but it's probably not true, see? See!?
I yelled, "Don't do it!" out loud at my screen when you picked up that Pisspi bottle.
I love the wisdom of, "the more keys you have the more complicated your life is" I have lived this idea for years but somehow there are always more keys - more complications.
I'm retired & now only have 3: house, car, & bike lock! More importantly, I spend most days gardening or hiking, biking, camping, & kayaking w/in an hour's drive from home in MI. Every day is full of adventure & discovery on the land!
Yeah baby, I have 3- house, car, gun safe. (Hunting rifles)
@@mizotter I'm retired, too, but I think I still have the keys from my first office - a job I left in 1986! I don't think the building is even there now! There's something about keys that make you feel they are too important to ditch...or is that just me? 😄
I used to have all my keys and extra stuff all in a ball that still fit in my pocket
Then one day I just randomly striped it down to:
House key & work barn key on clip on my belt
And single car key in my pocket (it's a key fob)
I've never looked back
@@rb9580Is it at least not on your current keyring?
This video gives off the feeling of when you realize you got all the time in the world, and you were racing against the clock for no reason.
fancy seeing mr airshot here lol
Beau Miles is the only one that will understand me.
I had to go ~124 km while I had nothing.
No food, no water, no money, no place to sleep. Not even a phone...Just me and the road. But You can bet I have gratitude for everything I have.
Thank you Beau!
Glad you made it. Probably got stronger even.
The road has a way of making the simplest of things seem significant. The shade of a large tree is like heaven on a hot day on the road. You'll literally find yourself thanking the tree. The same tree means almost nothing under other circumstances; but it becomes sacred for one person.
Possibly the most fascinating part of this adventure is the fact that what is now a high-speed motorway, was once largely an unsealed highway, before which was a dirt track, something that was once pioneered by a man, on his two feet, with likely little more than the olden equivalent of discarded scraps on the roadside to satiate them.
I prefer Beau's takeaway
Nice use of “olden”!
His immune system must be so strong he is like a human cockroach by now. He would survive a nuclear fallout.
I love the idea of finding someone outside your garden eating your roses
RUclips is barely interesting these days. Then a Beau film drops. I wait until I can sit back and savor it at the end of the day. Good on ya. Keep them coming.
Anyone notice him just gloss over the fact that he had skin cancer cut out of his head? As if it was the subject of an inconvenient tuesday morning! 😂😂 Love you Beau
That's a relatively common experience in Australia, I reckon every second person over 50 has had a little something cut out 😂
Yeah its relatively common in Australia sadly
To be fair, he's in his mid 30s here!@@jojomang8333
Wow! You learn something new everyday, that's insane! I have heard Australia's health care is more than capable of keeping up with that sort of demand!
Not in the aboriginal community maybe
You are one of very few people who make me proud to be an Aussie. Thank you.
By being disgusting?
@@DS-qc7pg By confronting societal norms and values in a humorous and intelligent way. One man's disgusting is another mans recycling, reusing and lessons in ecology.
True blue. I love it
me too !
I did a walk of 200+ miles in a circle around my home city in the US, through all the major urban parks and the industrial zones too. It totally changed my relationship with the city.
200 miles... 300km
my goodness how did you do that?!
@@yukko_parra usually I do wilderness walks! Sometimes I'm out for a month or two, but I wanted to get to know my city better. I got some good shoes on and started walking.
@@davidsixtwovery cool my family is slightly outdoors-y but I’d love to have the time (and the shoes) to go on longer wilderness trips like I hear so many people doing
"The Commute" was actually the first Video of you I saw. This is amazing!
Beau : "imagine if I needed air"
me: yup proof he's a robot
I’ve never been so disgusted and inspired at the same time, keep it up man
Beau is like a man from another dimension just waking around our world, exploring it as an observer
Beau is one of my favorite story tellers of all time. For years, every day life has been made grandeious by approaching things with "How would Beau look at this?".
pritty sure the pepsi bottle u were drinking was a truckies piss bottle.. 🍻7:40
Yeah, there’s no way that was cola
My grandfathers a hoarder and has about 20 years of Pepsi bottles under his house in various states.
Some in the sun, some in the shade. Some only a few years and some are 20 years old.
I can confirm that looked like 5-10 year old Pepsi in the sun.
but it’s not unlikely it could have been a pee bottle either.
He did say it tasted quite good and I'm pretty sure he'd be able to distinguish piss from pepsi.
@@yaranaikaexecute3196 can anyone really....?
@@JustTex heres an adventure for ya bud, drink a glass of piss and drink a glass of pepsi and tell us what happened
I am thankful for the technology that allows me to watch some random Australian dude walking to work.
I am pretty sure I watched every video you made. You are a hell of an inspiring guy.
I just can't stop watching you, mate. I've been rich, I've been poor, small town, big city,... But never met someone like ya. Love from the US of A.
Bit of a struggle watching without gagging as Beau fuels up with who knows what.
Always a good day when Beau uploads! Love to see the life of a young adventurer turned backyard adventurer father
I was literally rewatching all your old films wishing there were more. DAMN good timing
i imagine someday visiting Australia and randomly running into Mr Miles
The Commute was the first of your films I watched and, in no small
part, it inspired me to get up and get out side. I started running regularly and completed my first half marathon that same year. I always wondered why the first walk wasn’t on RUclips. Glad to have finally seen it! Keep up the excellent work Beau. Hope to see you in the UK one day 🤘
YES! Another Beau film
@BeauMiles I noticed the book “The Story of the Human Body” in the video, which made me wonder what books you like to read. Would you be so kind as to share a list of your favorites?
This is so poignant. The bits of this, not shown before, are the best lessons.
❤
Walking, slowing down, it makes you appreciate the hidden gems.
Lets not hurry through life. 😊
This is just amazing. I have never related to someone more in my life and i'm 21 (regarding the age gap). You inspire me man. So simple yet so effective. I go by a saying my dad told me, "Keep it simple silly" god I love it. This nearly brought me to tears because people need to watch these things and be grateful for the things we have. Its something that everyone needs to work on.
Something about this made me feel like I was watching old RUclips or Vimeo when people made documentaries for fun. I think it’s the editing, the audio, and sense of calm.
Thanks for taking me on this little adventure while I’m stuck washing the dishes. I might be physically stuck, but at least my thoughts can be adventure. Cheers Beau.
He seems to have become slightly more reasonable in regards to the rules of his adventures and what rubbish he puts in and on him. Love this mad bastard 😆
Feet are the best form of transportation to me. You can feel where you're going and you always have time to change direction.
Great adventure😅I didn't expect it but it was also a bit stressful to watch 😆
thanks for taking us with you Beau
I normally watch all youtube videos at 2x, for Beau i watch the videos on 1x not because of his accent, but because i really enjoy the story Beau tells
An apple after walking hungry...that is a taste and feeling that is tough to beat. I dont care much for apples, but there have been times when it was the juiciest, tastiest miracle. To just be able to pluck such a thing from a tree and satiate yourself...underrated.
Ten years later and this movie still feels so fresh... Thanks Beau for bringing us along the ride
This has helped me after a crappy week at work that im definitely not seeing the forest from the trees.
Life is full of potential, just open up to it.
Love your work Beau, you have the same ingredients but make a better dish!
Hoping you can take all those ingredients and masterchef the crap outa your week , life's a tasty bugger , it's just sometimes someone messes up the order of the cook . Get onto it an start fine dining , knaw on the tasty bits and savor what you've got . Hoping there's something sweet in the desert of your week to come.. wishing you more good Sir or Madame..
Beauy me old son these are my favourite type of videos of yours!!
Your videos both ignite something in me and relax me. Youve got it just right. I’m a cop in the uk and work a standard 40 hour week behind a screen, but I grew up in the hills of Scotland making adventure and living by experience rather than online..you’re videos remind me of the old me, the inner me and I thank you for that 👍
SO glad you decided to release this! I was waiting YEARS to watch it!!
Me too! In fact, I think it was released before, and then removed.
A few years ago, I searched and searched for it to watch it again, but couldn’t find it. I thought I was mad. Perhaps I am. Anyway, so pleased to see it again.
Original video motivated me to walk to work (21km) which I’ve now done several times over the years including a full week of walking to work each day. Fortunately 20-22km is far more civilised than Beau’s adventure but agree 100% with all beau’s musings
"I've been here 35 years and I haven't done the 85km between here and work" was one of the most life changing quotes I've ever heard back when you posted it the first time.
Went through a horrible divorce, felt really low on life. Your videos helped inspire me to get back on my feet. Really appreciate your perspective on life, keep doing what you're doing Beau you're helping people from a dark place getting back to being themselves
thanks beau for uploading this classic. your original commute vid (the one uploaded earlier) was inspiration for me to walk a shorter (8 hour) urban adventure. i can't say much but gratitude for being a bloody amazing inspiration.
Hope you're having a good weekend. Always enjoying your videos thanks 🤙
Always blows me away with the way you can turn something so simple and make it into a great story. You’re bloody inspirational mate. Keep them coming!!
Marvelous storytelling as always Beau. Its amazing how much there is to find if you look, ive got a list of dozens of places I still havent explored and thats without even leaving the Adelaide area!
Couldn’t have been better timing for a Beau Miles upload, after a pretty blah couple of days. On ya mate.
I bet Bear Grylls is terrified of this guy
This is single-handedly the best art work I have ever clicked on to, on this sit. WOW. I’m blown away.
"the more keys you have the more complicated your life is". Still in the process of selling my house while we moved in the new house, yeah absolutely!
I think what hurt 2024 me the most was seeing unleaded for $1.39 :(
lol you're not wrong
Just YES!
I've done similar random hikes myself and slept at the Anywheres Hotel myself, aka the earth's ground.
Very satisfied moments.
Thanks mate 👍
That was a FULL experience just watching this! Incredible ...
Thanks for the inspiration. You did about 50km on the first day. The most I have ever done is around 15km one morning. I am impressed that you set off with so little.
Wow 1000 views in first 8 minutes and before anyone could have completed their 1st full view of the video. And only 2 condoms - so far. Keep on keeping on.
it's never a bad day when Beau uploads
Omg I love this. A man after my own heart. The craziest adventures are the best ones, I’m blessed to have grown up in the bush exploring wetlands x good on you
I have been to Canada, the states so many times, never seen my surroundings like that in 2020. I still travel far and wide. "Walking 90 ks to work" gave me the awareness to discover more local places.
This is one of the most ballsey things I've seen, awesome work mate
as a child in Hawaii I ate roses
You're, by far, my favourite RUclipsr, Beau. Thanks for your work and humour and inspiration
I love all of your videos, but this one really speaks to me. Thank you for sharing your journey's
Drinking bush sauce was certainly a choice
Oh... just got to the.. soda
Eco system in the uggs? Beau, the eco system you have in your iron guts is more impressive!
Sidenote: we can only dream of those fuel prices now.
You've truly taught me how beautiful my own backyard is down here in Gippsland.
Now I just need to step outside and experience it!
The only thing even approaching an adventure that I've ever had was riding a Lime scooter 10km to work when my bus was canceled. Looking back on it, it was the most fun I've ever had on a work day.
I remember the first time I walked to work. I didn't have any other choice. I had to make it there. It was only 5 miles. But I ended up having to do it again, and again. 6 days a week for over a year. That was the first time, and I was 16 years old.
As a bonified adult, I've had to walk much more than that on occasions to get to work or another place or importance. Transportation is a luxury people take for granted. I stopped hitching because of repetitive assaults.
It's a damn humbling thing, having a drivers license, perfect driving record, and full coverage insurance, but not be able to drive yourself somewhere.
Do this more than once, or twice or 187 times, I promise, your view will change even more.
Ain’t that the truth. Modern society is drowning in ‘comfort’. Never hurts to suffer or go back to basics to appreciate what we have.
Get a bike?
@@mohammadhussamashfaq4248 That's a pretty privileged thing for someone to say. What if my job only paid enough for food and rent, which actually I had to decide between food or rent most of the time back then. But hey, I hope you have a great bike bud.
@@Donutworx can get a bike for next to nothing.
@@Donutworx + boohoo
This is the best video I’ve seen this year, you are the epitome of a modern swagman. In the old days you could walk,work and drink. The Australian spirit is strong. Great job mate
I was hanging out for this for years! The promos sucked me in, and I recommend the channel based on the promo alone....and then the combined commute came out. Now this is here 😊.
I can’t believe this was shot in 2014. I recall watching it during Covid and it made me have a weird nostalgia for Australia (I’m American), but now maybe, it was nostalgia for 2014 unknowingly as I assumed it was shot within a year or two of viewing!
Impressed that Beau had such quality film even back then before the real golden age of RUclips.
Reminds me of walking home from uni 15ish years ago, Southampton to Leicester, 130 miles.
Took all Easter weekend and it killed my knees. Wish I took a camera, but it 'wasnt in the rules'.😂
Good on ya.
Big fan, been following for years. THANK YOU! Please continue posting.
Watching Beau's videos, I can't stop thinking about how abundante we are. Thanks to Miles for giving a different perspective in each video!
That Pepsi bottle was, in fact, "Trucker Lemonade".
I'm pretty sure Beau can tell the difference by now. Not sure if he cares though ;)
@@peterpain6625
@@bammerbiff1621 No seriously. Coke/Pepsi both "bleach" to yellow after lying in the sun for "an eternity" ;)
@@peterpain6625 who knows, piss might taste similar to flat soda if the trucker was diabetic
@@descai10 It probably also is more healthy than soda ;)
And here I am thinking I'm cool for running to work (only 16ks hahaha)
hey that's amazing! i can't jog for more than 5 km, so being able to jog to work and focus is amazing.
It’s amazing how it feels so normal to walk down the highway and live off whatever is on the side of the road now. Love it Beau. Inspirational.
Videos like this is why RUclips is amazing its 05.44am im in Glasgow scotland and iv come across this absolute wonder. Absolutely fantastic, we need more people like this. This is why the words a wonderful place. I'll be showing this to everyone Im fan. Cant binge tour other videos
you legend - Fabulously Feral
Looking forward to the movie where you walk back home.
I grew up with two friends (they were brothers) who shared your mindset. They would pick up snacks and cigarettes from the street and use what is left. I felt free with them. Early summers with them were the best, as we would venture to the outskirts of the city on foot, and look around for fruit plantations to grab some cherries, apricots and apples. We never carried bags, we would only eat while we were there. Also on January first we would walk around in the morning and collect unlit and failed firecrackers. They came from the low income class family so now some things make sense.
One of them moved away and lives a whole different life, the younger brother is laying at the psych ward.. We haven't been in touch since the end of high school(7 years now), they were my true friends, rest of our flock was spurious.
Hands down one of the most under appreciated channels on RUclips! And it's been that way for a few years now. Your the Man Bo!!
8.17 passes by known occurrence of state and federally significant Strzelecki Gum
Legend you are beau
1 day 7 hours late. That was fun! Thanks for sharing your walk to work!💗