I was about to get into a rickshaw in Delhi when my phone buzzed — a four-minute voice note from a friend who was weeks out from flying to Kenya with me. Nobody sends a four-minute voice note with good news. This one was the exception, and it's the reason my podcast made it to fifty episodes.

Type 2 fun: miserable in the middle, legendary forever. It's the safari stuck in the mud, the trip that broke you open, the story you'll tell for thirty years. Here's what it means — and why I built a whole travel company on it.