Ep. 149: Adventure Travel by Motorcycle with Sam Manicom
Adventure Sports Podcast
Curt Linville
4.6 • 579 Ratings
🗓️ 17 March 2016
⏱️ 60 minutes
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Summary
Sam Manicom is well known for his travels throughout the world by motorcycle. He's logged over 200,000 miles through 55 countries! Sam has written 4 great books on the subject that you're sure to enjoy. Listen in to today's show as Sam recounts a few good stories from his travels and shares some advice for those thinking of venturing out on their own!
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| 0:00.0 | He gets really, really excited when he comes across my little film canister, full of mixed herbs. |
| 0:06.4 | I think I must have had the only port guard who hadn't got a sense of smell. |
| 0:11.6 | Of course, he thought this was dope, wasn't he? |
| 0:13.5 | So he just went, absolutely ape, and he was just so excited. |
| 0:18.6 | But eventually one of the officers came down and took a pinch of this stuff. |
| 0:22.7 | And, yeah, this guy, he just looked as if he wished there was a hole that he could disappear down into. |
| 0:28.0 | And, you know, for the next mile or so of me riding, I didn't even think about my back. |
| 0:33.0 | I just thought about how lucky I was that the officer had come because it could have got very, very screwy. This is the adventure sports podcast, brought to you by 180Tack. |
| 1:03.2 | Get out there and have some fun. |
| 1:08.1 | Episode 149, Motorcycle Traveler and author Sam Manacom is on the show. |
| 1:24.8 | Hi, and thanks for tuning in to the adventure sports podcast. |
| 1:45.7 | We just wanted to remind you all that you need to save the date, April 22nd. It's a Friday. Save that on your calendars because in Colorado, we're going to be having a meetup, and Pete Schuster, who was our first guest on the Adventure Sports podcast, he is going to be speaking about preparing and hiking the Continental Divide Trail. But what we're also planning on doing is live streaming Pete's talk and the |
| 1:51.7 | question and answer period on Facebook or Twitter, either one. So you two can watch in, |
| 1:57.9 | no matter where you are in the world at that time. You can also be involved in the question and answer period. |
| 2:02.7 | So keep April 22nd on your calendars and stay tuned for more info. |
| 2:07.7 | And to all you motorcycle riders out there, there's a new 50 state lane splitting petition on |
| 2:13.3 | whitehouse.gov now. |
| 2:15.0 | It needs 100,000 signatures by April 12th. So I'm going to put a link up on |
| 2:20.2 | our website at Adventure Sportspodcast.com. Go click that link and it'll take you less than 60 seconds to |
| 2:26.4 | sign it. As many of you are aware, lane splitting is a controversial issue, but it really does help |
| 2:32.0 | alleviate traffic congestion by letting more vehicles |
| 2:35.0 | filter up to the front in heavy pinch points. |
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