What traveling on the bike got me was meeting people. I mean, I had to deal with governments, but I got to meet people. And when you meet so many different people with so many different perspectives, it really, for me, moderated my approach to everything and simplified my approach to everything.

You're listening to Keep Your Daydream podcast, episode 14,

bicycle touring around the world with Tim Travis.

Have you ever wondered what it would be like to leave normal, travel the world, or follow your dream?

How about sail the ocean?

Live in a different country every year?

Or serve your life's purpose through a mission trip?

My name is Tricia Leach and those are the stories you're about to hear.

And so much more.

Welcome to your favorite podcast,

inspired by dreams and made for adventure. This is Keep Your Daydream.

Wow, wow. Today is going to be awesome for any of you roadies out there.

And for me, because I can't wait to hear all about it.

Welcome to the show today, Tim.

How are you doing?

Oh, I'm fine and excited to get going with this podcast interview.

Awesome.

Okay, so Tim Travis says he's an ordinary American who decided to live out his

dreams. So he saved his money, quit his job, sold his possessions, and set off to travel

around the world by bicycle. Yeah, around the world. You would think with this kind of

adventuring spirit, he grew up in a big city and had traveled kind of adventuring spirit he grew up in a big city

and had traveled before, but no, he grew up in a small town in Indiana. At 18, he was hitchhiking to

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