You are a product of your environment. I'm sure you've heard this before. You live the way you do, you think the way you do because of the experiences you've had in life.

Growing up how you did, your family, they've been a part of it, your friends, your school,

and significant encounters with certain people, places, or situations.

They've all helped to shape the way you view the world.

It shapes your opinions, your mindset, and ultimately the way you choose to live.

Now there's no way that you could have predicted as a child that you'd be living the exact way you are today.

In the neighborhood, the house, the apartment, with the people that you live with,

there's just no way you could have predicted that because there's another component in here,

it's chance or serendipity.

Now I'm sure there's many things that you can sort of connect with that. Maybe you wouldn't have a motorcycle if you didn't meet somebody who had one. Maybe you wouldn't have moved to the place you live now if you hadn't seen something in a magazine, you know, those type of things. And it's the culmination of life experience that

makes you the individual that you are. There's many people out there who on the surface may seem

similar to you, but there's no one, no one that's exactly like you. Possessions don't shape your

character, the experience does. So if you travel along with me on this train of

thought that your your past experiences help shape you

into what you are today that imagine what you could learn from the

experiences you haven't had yet or maybe that you could have. Greg and Melanie Turp have been on the road for a decade and I think

you're going to hear today that experience has not only shaped their lives but it's

become an obsession for them. My name's Jim Martin, this is

Adventure Rider Radio. Stay with us, we get a good one for you.

I'm Sam Manneke. Simon Mannek.

Simon Pavey.

How you get better.

...