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Episode 160, safer and more enjoyable adventure travel with Jessica Posiac.

Thank you. Hello and welcome to the adventure sports podcast. This is your host, Kurt Linville.

Today we are doing a little different sort of a show. I have Jessica Posiac with us who

is going to talk to us about international travel and adventure travel and how to do it safely.

She contacted us not long after the Brussels attacks took place. And she was saying, you know what,

there are safe ways to travel and it might be timely to give people practical things that they can do to travel safely and to make the trip more enjoyable.

So we're going to have that show for you in just a moment.

But before we do, I wanted to throw a word out for our brand new sponsor, House of Motorrad.

This is a motorcycle rental company in Boulder, Colorado. If you've

listened to the show for any period of time, you probably know that we do quite a few shows on

touring around the planet on motorcycles. We've had a lot of great guests like Yulanda Rust and

Alan Carl and others. Well, for a long time now, I've been wanting to try out a true adventure bike.

Now, these bikes are the kind of bikes that do pretty well on the pavement, but they can also excel off-road.

And it makes it possible then to travel in areas where the road conditions are going to be very variable.

I just really wanted to try out one of these bikes.

So my co-host Travis and I got together.

We rented some bikes from House of Motorrad in Boulder, and we spent the day yesterday just

going everywhere and trying everything that we could do with these bikes.

I'm telling you, it was so much fun.

First, we started by going up in Interstate I-70 into the mountains,

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