Ep. 003: Jolandie Rust - Motorcycle Circumnavigation of Africa
Adventure Sports Podcast
Curt Linville
4.6 • 579 Ratings
🗓️ 28 February 2015
⏱️ 53 minutes
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Travis Parsons interviews Jo Rust – first woman to solo-circumnavigate the African continent on a motorcycle. Hear her amazing story, learn about her new adventures, and upcoming book!
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| 0:00.0 | four guys, um, attacked me with knives and machetes in northern Angola and stole my bicycle |
| 0:07.7 | and all my kit. |
| 0:08.5 | Episode three, Yolandi Rust. |
| 0:28.2 | This is the Adventure Sports Podcast. |
| 0:31.4 | Brought to you by 180Tack. |
| 0:33.9 | Get out there and have some fun. |
| 0:49.2 | Yeah. Get out there and have some fun. Welcome to another episode of the Adventure Sports podcast. |
| 0:52.1 | This is your host, Travis Parsons. |
| 0:54.9 | On this episode, we speak with Yolandi Rust from South Africa. Among many of the Adventure Sports podcast. This is your host, Travis Parsons. On this episode, |
| 1:00.3 | we speak with Yolandi Rust from South Africa. Among many things, Joe has ridden her bicycle through the country of Israel and then nearly 900 miles from Johannesburg to Cape Town. In 2010, |
| 1:06.5 | Joe became the first person to cycle around the perimeter of South Africa, covering 3,700 miles in |
| 1:11.7 | 100 days. But believe it or not, Joe is actually here today to talk about motorcycling, |
| 1:17.2 | and it's one heck of an adventure at that. Joe, welcome to the Adventure Sports podcast. |
| 1:22.3 | Hi, Travis. Thank you for having me. |
| 1:24.9 | So, Joe, I've given the listeners a little bit of your bio, but it's a large bio. |
| 1:30.0 | So if you would take a few minutes to go into more detail on that and tell us about your connection to world travel on motorcycles. |
| 1:38.9 | Yeah, well, like you've mentioned, I started out on a bicycle and I did a few cycling trips back in 2003 |
| 1:47.2 | through Israel. And I think that's where the whole travel slash adventure bug bit me. When I got |
| 1:54.1 | back home from Israel, I did a cycling trip from Johannesburg to Cape Town, like you mentioned, |
| 2:00.0 | and then around South Africa. |
| 2:02.2 | And mainly the idea was, or the big dream, was to be the first woman to circumnavigate |
| 2:09.5 | the African continent on a bicycle. So all these previous trips were in preparation for this, you know, big epic trip that I was planning. |
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