These just happen to be projects that we're working on and have identified for the moment.

And hopefully as we expand and grow, we will take on more places around the world

and hopefully continue to do as much good as we can for kids that need help. Episode 19, Neil Bailey.

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Get out there and have some fun.

With us today to discuss his experiences in motorcycle world travel is Neil Bailey.

Neil has ridden in 45 countries around the world and has been the motorcycle editor for Speed Channel as well as contributing editor to various motorcycle magazines.

He was also the host of Neil Bailey Rides,

a 2013 television series documenting a charity ride to a Peruvian orphanage, which, as we'll hear

in a bit, transformed his life forever. Neil, thanks for joining us.

Thanks, Travis. Thanks for having me on. So I gave the listeners a little bit of background on you.

Would you mind telling us a little bit more about Neil Bailey and your affinity for world travel by motorcycle?

Well, Travis, I started my interest in motorcycles.

Maybe a lot of us did as a teenager.

By the time I turned 16, I had a little moped that transitioned to motorcycles by the age of 17. And here I am at 53 years old. And I have ridden ever since. I would imagine that my career in journalism, television, and the stuff that I do in my motorcycling was really born out of a desire to figure out how

someone could pay me to ride around on motorcycles. And that's basically what I did. I think I got

to the point I got tired of paying for it myself, coming home from trips broke and busted and

having to go look for a job and start all over again. So that kind of started my career.

I can certainly understand that.

Really, I had worked in motorcycle shops. I'd ridden motorcycles around the world, and most of my

life had been, you know, I'd been a race fan, and I'm always, I hadn't rid motorcycles. So in early

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