Christopher Venter lives in South Africa and he'd already done one long

adventure on his Vespas scooter before this one. It was a combined adventure

slash charity ride for a children's hospital and it would end up

covering 32,000 kilometers or almost 20,000 miles taking Chris and his team of three other

riders from Cape Town in South Africa all the way to Dublin, Ireland.

But what Chris didn't know that morning as he rode away

was that this trip would present the biggest challenge he had ever faced.

All of a sudden, within two days, my sight totally disappeared.

I went to totally blind nothing black stylus nights.

And how he dealt with this challenge and what was happening to him would define his future.

It's really hard. I felt very, very alone, very broken, and I just wanted to die.

I lay there in that hospital bed wishing that I would close my eyes and it would be over. Oh, it's not. I'm Jim Martin. This is Adventure Rider Radio. Stay with us. We got a good one for you. Now, Max BMW Motorcycles has been outfitting Adventure Riders since 2002.

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