Bond Almand on smashing the Pan-Am record self-supported

The Adventure Stache

Payson McElveen

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4.9 • 727 Ratings

🗓️ 5 January 2025

⏱️ 80 minutes

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Summary

Bond Almand was just 20 years old when he rode the nearly 13,500 miles of the Pan-American Highway from Prudhoe Bay, Alaska to Ushuaia, Argentina in 75 days, beating the previous record by nearly 10 days. That feat is even more impressive considering that the last rider to hold the record was a professional racer who did it with a support crew, while Bond did it all self-supported between semesters at Dartmouth.Bond sat down with Payson to talk about confronting months of intense loneliness, ...

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0:00.0	The last couple weeks, I got so lonely that I all of a sudden wasn't lonely anymore.
0:05.5	I like to like, if you go all day without eating, you get really hungry, but then at a certain point, you're no longer hungry.
0:11.7	And your stomach just kind of hurts a little bit.
0:13.6	And that's what it was like.
0:14.4	Like, I got so incredibly lonely that then I, like, didn't want to talk to anyone at all.
0:21.0	Like, I would get text, and I'd be like, I don't want to answer that.
0:23.5	It's showtime, everybody. Showtime!
0:28.3	You've been living in a dream world, Neo.
0:32.1	This is the world as it exists today.
0:36.9	Life moves pretty fast.
0:39.2	You don't stop and look around once in a while.
0:41.8	You could miss it.
0:44.8	Listen, we talk about practice.
0:48.0	Repeat on the dude's room.
0:49.6	Donnie, you're out of your element.
0:51.9	I see, you think this has nothing to do with you.
0:55.8	Don't ever trash top black Jesus.
1:00.6	This is the adventure stash with Payson McAlvin.
1:05.2	Hello, welcome back.
1:06.9	A few days ago, I said we'd have an in-person episode this week, but that's changed because
1:11.9	I finally got Bond Almond on the podcast, who a couple of months ago completed the almost
1:18.8	14,000 mile Pan American bike route in record time.
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