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Adventure Rider Radio – Motorcycle Podcast

11 Years of Riding Adventure Motorcycles Around the World - Lisa & Simon Thomas

Adventure Rider Radio – Motorcycle Podcast

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4.9960 Ratings

🗓️ 28 July 2014

⏱️ 89 minutes

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Summary

Lisa and Simon Thomas of 2RideTheWorld.com talk about their amazing journey with travel tips and more

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0:00.0

Last day of your vacation, you're sitting on the beach, maybe on a dock with your toes dipped into the water,

0:04.8

or maybe in front of a campfire, you know, watching those glowing embers die down as a fire dies away.

0:10.4

And you reminisce the past few days or weeks that have made up your vacation.

0:14.0

And you feel how good it feels to be living there, to be riding your bike somewhere different,

0:18.0

to be doing things that are different, just away from the hustle-bussle of life.

0:22.0

And then you lament the return to quote unquote, and just away from the hustle-bussle of life.

0:23.0

And then you lament the return to quote-unquote normal life.

0:26.7

And probably around this point you think to yourself,

0:28.8

man I wish this could go on forever.

0:30.9

That the vacation would never end. You get on your bike and you ride lazily to the next

0:35.8

town, city, country. You meander your way through time, taking in the sights and the smells,

0:41.3

the different ways of life and the people, the people you meet along the way,

0:45.3

that show you life from a different perspective.

0:47.8

Ah, that's the perfect life.

0:50.6

But wait a second, if you do that, if you lived your life on the road with no end in sight,

0:54.8

would it still be vacation? Or would it just be life? A different kind of life.

0:59.8

Vacation is a period of recreation, time spent away from home home but if the road is your home then how could it be vacation?

1:06.5

At what point does an adventure like that cease to be vacation and become your life, who you are, what you do?

1:16.1

Is there a line you cross? Can you see that line? Can you purposely cross that line?

1:17.6

On this show, we're going to meet Simon and Lisa Thomas who left for an 18 month

1:25.6

motorcycle adventure 11 years ago. Now it could be that they just lost track of time

1:31.0

but I think you're going to hear in this interview that they found

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