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Elisa Wirkala Riding South America on Small Displacment Motorbikes

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4.9915 Ratings

🗓️ 5 June 2015

⏱️ 69 minutes

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Summary

Elisa Wirkala has done a fair bit of motorcycle adventure travel. On this episode Elisa talks about frugal travel on small displacement bikes in South America. http://travelbugblues.com Melanie Cowpland is taking her autistic daughter to Africa on a motorcycle. What lies ahead could be sensational but will be trying. http://toafricawithautism.com

Transcript

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0:00.0

Beginning this week and for the next few weeks adventure rider radio is coming to you from the road

0:04.6

We are on our own overlanding adventure and probably be that way for the month of June or most of the month of June

0:10.5

So no longer am I sitting in a studio inside a building, my studio is now the great

0:15.2

outdoors. I'm sitting by a beautiful lake with gorgeous sunshine streaming down after we've

0:20.6

had some heavy, heavy rain in the last couple of days and we're

0:24.2

looking at a forecast of some gorgeous weather. So here it is adventure rider

0:28.1

radio from the road. Today we're going to be talking with Melanie Copeland who's taking her autistic daughter on a motorcycle adventure to Africa of all places.

0:46.3

They're going to load up a Euro motorcycle with a side car and head off to well one of the most adventurous continents that we have.

0:54.0

We also have Alisa Workala, who is a Spanish teacher and motorcycle adventure,

0:59.0

who's traveled extensively in South America,

1:01.0

and on top of all that, she's managed to pay off incredible

1:05.0

debts in a short period of time so she's got some really good comments when it comes to

1:09.4

finances and especially when it comes to financing your trip so So you'll definitely want to stick around for this.

1:14.0

I'm Jim Martin and this is Adventure Rider Radio is brought to you in part by Max BMW Motorcycles,

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