ASP Stories Ep. 016: Under Asian Skies - Chapter 9 - Sam Manicom
Adventure Sports Podcast
Curt Linville
4.6 • 579 Ratings
🗓️ 3 March 2018
⏱️ 49 minutes
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Summary
Welcome to another ASP Stories bonus episode. We will be having authors read from their books featuring each chapter as a new episode. Think of these bonus episodes as an ongoing audiobook for free. So sit back, relax and enjoy a chapter from one of Sam Manicom's world travel by motorcycle books; "Into Africa", "Under Asian Skies", "Distant Suns" and "Tortillas to Totems". Sam has been traveling all around the world and documenting it as he goes. Find out more about Sam at his website below and hear his ASP interview on episode 149.
Into Africa
Under Asian Skies
Distant Suns
Tortillas to Totems
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| 0:00.0 | Hi friends. Thank you for joining us again for the ASP Stories weekend bonus episode. |
| 0:24.3 | Join us on Mondays and Thursdays where we interview amazing guests where they share with us about their adventure sports and the amazing feats that they have done. |
| 0:34.0 | But ASP Stories is where we get to listen in as authors read their adventure stories to us. |
| 0:40.6 | So sit back with your hot cup of tea or coffee and kick off your adventure-filled weekend |
| 0:46.1 | by listening in while we hear more from ASP Stories. |
| 0:51.9 | The next four ASP Stories episodes will be with Sam Manacom. Sam has spent many years traveling |
| 0:58.1 | around the world on his motorcycle, and he's written a few books to tell all about it. In these next |
| 1:03.2 | four episodes, he'll be reading from his books into Africa, under Asian skies, distant suns, and |
| 1:08.6 | tortillas to totems. If you'd like to find out more about Sam and get his books, you can visit him at |
| 1:13.8 | sam-manacom.com. |
| 1:15.5 | You can also hear his interview on the Adventure Sports podcast on episode 149. |
| 1:20.9 | And now, here's Sam Manicom. |
| 1:31.7 | Chapter 9. Red tape and Fars Henry David Thoreau said, |
| 1:34.2 | Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined. |
| 1:40.7 | By the time I arrived in Madras, now called Chennai, it was hot and humid, and in spite of having slept really well, I felt tired and very sticky. |
| 1:49.5 | But that didn't matter. |
| 1:51.2 | Finally I was in Madras, and with luck my bike's container had been swung off the ship that very day. |
| 1:58.6 | The rickshaw rank outside the station was a yellow and black swarm of three-wheeled |
| 2:03.6 | bees. I soon had three drivers trying to persuade me that they knew the way, that their rickshaw was the |
| 2:10.2 | fastest, and they were the safest driver. At that stage, I hadn't even told them where I wanted to go. |
| 2:17.3 | It was the Broadland Guest House. |
| 2:20.2 | Back in Calcutta, Billy had said that this was the perfect spot for me. |
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