Ep. 1124: World Rider in China - Allan Karl Revisted
Adventure Sports Podcast
Curt Linville
4.6 • 580 Ratings
🗓️ 3 October 2025
⏱️ 69 minutes
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Summary
This is a CLASSIC! Travis interviews Allan about his book and his adventure riding exploits all over the world. If you like travel, adventure bikes, culture, and cuisine this don't miss this one. Karl's passion for exploration ignited on July 4, 2005, when he set off on a three-year solo motorcycle odyssey around the world, covering over 100,000 miles across more than 70 countries. This transformative trip, undertaken on his motorcycle nicknamed "Doc," inspired by historical explorers like Marco Polo and Ferdinand Magellan, took him through diverse terrains and cultures, from the Colombian jungle to the Indonesian volcanoes.
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| 0:00.0 | I'm less likely in 10 years to remember that painting that maybe moved me for a moment in a museum in Paris, let's say, |
| 0:07.0 | than I am to remember those ladies selling garlic and onions and the side of the road. |
| 0:13.0 | That is going to be a memory or being invited into a, you know, a rondola grass hut |
| 0:18.0 | and eating on the floor with locals in Kenya. |
| 0:32.4 | This is the Adventure Sports podcast brought to you by 180TAC. |
| 0:34.2 | Get out there and have some fun. |
| 0:39.8 | Alan Carl returns with stories from China, Iceland, Greece, and more. |
| 0:46.1 | Hey friends, I wanted to share this revisited episode with you and give you a little bit of a warm-up. |
| 0:50.6 | So we're going all the way back to February of 2017. |
| 1:00.3 | Eight years and about 900 episodes ago, Alan Carl talked about traveling around China with us, and he was promoting his book, Forks. |
| 1:08.7 | A lot of water has gone under the bridge since then. Travis is the host for this episode. He did a fantastic job. |
| 1:12.9 | Since then, Travis has ridden his own motorcycle,, many, many thousands and thousands of miles and had amazing adventures of his own. We actually got the book |
| 1:19.6 | Forks and my family, once a week, we would make a recipe from the book, and it was a way of sharing |
| 1:27.3 | geography with our kids as they |
| 1:30.7 | were growing up. And we had so much fun trying all the different dishes that were in the book. |
| 1:35.6 | And I don't, you know, at the risk of sounding like an Alan Carl groupie or something, we actually |
| 1:42.6 | put a map on the wall, and we traced Alan Carl's route |
| 1:46.5 | around the world on the map so that the kids could look at the map and get a feel for where |
| 1:53.3 | these dishes we were eating came from and what the countries that we read about were like. |
| 1:59.4 | Anyway, it's been a really fun time for us, and it's fun for me |
| 2:04.1 | to revisit this episode, first of all, with a classic Travis Parsons hosting it and Alan Carl from |
| 2:11.5 | so long ago. Now, Alan is at his own podcast since this time. It's called World Rider, and he has a few episodes out with some really cool guests. |
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