ASP Stories Ep. 019: Lone Rider - Chapter 3 Excerpt - Elspeth Beard
Adventure Sports Podcast
Curt Linville
4.6 • 579 Ratings
🗓️ 24 March 2018
⏱️ 28 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 "Lone Rider: The First British Woman to Motorcycle Around the World" where, in 1982, Elspeth left her family back in London and began her 35,000 adventure of riding her 1974 BMW R60/6 around the world. You can also hear Elspeth's interview on episode 292 of the Adventure Sports Podcast.
The Book: https://www.bookdepository.com/Lone-Rider-Elspeth-Beard/9781782438045
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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. |
| 0:52.3 | Our featured author today is Elspeth Beard. |
| 0:55.6 | Elspeth was on the Adventure Sports podcast telling her amazing story back on episode 292. |
| 1:01.9 | So if you want to hear the interview and hear her overview of what the whole adventure was like, |
| 1:08.6 | then go to episode 292 and give a listen. |
| 1:11.1 | Today's book by Elspeth is entitled Lone Writer, |
| 1:15.0 | the first British woman to motorcycle around the world. |
| 1:18.7 | It's a delightful read, and I'm sure that you're going to enjoy it a lot, |
| 1:22.1 | and an amazing story to share as well. |
| 1:24.6 | You can find a copy of this book, of course, on Amazon.com. There will be a U.S. |
| 1:30.5 | copy that is going to launch on June the 1st. Until then, there's a UK version that is also |
| 1:36.9 | available on Amazon.com. And you can also get a hardback copy from the website, elspethbeard.com. |
| 1:45.4 | That's E-L-S-P-E-H-B-E-A-R-D.com. |
| 1:52.3 | The reading today is done by Ann Linville, |
| 1:55.3 | my wonderful wife, so sit back and enjoy the stories. |
| 2:06.7 | Music So sit back and enjoy the stories. Prologue, Southern Thailand, 10 April 1984. |
| 2:11.6 | For five long, hot, tiring days I'd ridden towards the equator, skimming the Burmese border |
| 2:16.5 | on the skinny section of the |
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