Change of Plan: Motorcycle Travel Requires Flexibility - Kevin Chow

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4.9 • 960 Ratings

🗓️ 11 October 2018

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Kevin Chow is a planner. And for years he planned to go on a motorcycle trip around the world. He rode south from Canada in to Mexico and beyond to Ushuaia, and speaking little to no Spanish he even managed to communicate with the locals and to get...

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0:00.0	We came up on a roadblock where there was just bamboo and rocks on the road.
0:10.0	And there was locals wearing bandanas, holding machetes, holding cell phones,
0:17.0	smashing bottles on the road, and then they're putting barbed wire across the road.
0:25.4	Both of us were like, okay, this is serious.
0:30.0	One of those situations.
0:38.2	Once we got into the middle of it, the locals like the guys actually creating the blockade. They were upset because they wanted to block the road.
0:45.0	They didn't want anybody through.
0:47.0	So we ended up getting on the throttle and, you know, just trying to race by.
0:54.0	Kevin Chow spent 12 years saving for his ultimate motorcycle trip.
1:07.0	He made a detailed trip plan and hit the road, but after only two months, he discovered
1:11.4	his plans required some flexibility. My name's Jim Martin, this is
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