ASP Stories Ep. 018: Tortillas to Totems - Chapter 15 - Sam Manicom
Adventure Sports Podcast
Curt Linville
4.6 • 580 Ratings
🗓️ 17 March 2018
⏱️ 52 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 | We've come to our final reading from Sam Manicom. This will be Chapter 15 from Tortillas to Totems. |
| 0:58.4 | If you want to check out more information about Sam, you can visit his website at Sam-manacom.com. |
| 1:04.3 | And you can also hear his interview on episode 149. |
| 1:07.3 | Now on to Tortillas to Totems. |
| 1:16.3 | Thank you. Now on to Tortillas to Totems. Chapter 15. Indian Summer |
| 1:18.9 | Oscar Maria Graff wrote, |
| 1:22.6 | A person should only travel if he is willing to be surprised completely. |
| 1:28.2 | It's an Indian summer, some years we're lucky, the locals told us. |
| 1:32.3 | June weather in September. |
| 1:34.8 | To the north, Alaska was wintry, but here in the Okanagan Valley, we were the warmest we'd |
| 1:40.2 | been since Mexico. |
| 1:42.5 | It seemed as if we were being rewarded for having the sense to say |
| 1:45.3 | no to going on northwards. The temptation was to slow down a little and really explore, |
| 1:51.9 | but we had a bee in our helmets. Just a few hundred kilometres to the west lay the normally |
| 1:57.8 | grey and wet Vancouver Island. This rare gift of perfect biking weather had to be a good time |
| 2:05.0 | to explore the largest island on the west coast of North America. |
| 2:09.6 | As we pushed onto the coast, two options faced us. |
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