As soon as you enter the Darian and enter the water highway, you pass by various villages,

some with more blacks, some with more of the Kuna Indians, and some poor, some richer.

And Pai was definitely the prettiest, wealthiest, uh,

town.

And it was the end of the water highway,

so it was,

it was magical in that sense. This is the Adventure Sports podcast brought to you by 180 tack.

Get out there and have some fun.

Episode 213 crossing through the Darien Gap on a motorcycle with J.D. Smith.

Welcome back to another episode of the Adventure Sports podcast. This is Travis. If you know what the Dary and Gap is, you know that most travelers opt to go around it by boat or over it by plane. But today's guest, J.D. Smith, decided to go through the 99-mile jungle by motorcycle instead. Needless to say, this is not your ordinary two-wheeled adventure.

J.D., thanks for joining me.

Thank you, Travis.

So let's dive in.

You and I were chatting a little bit before the interview about, you know, how we each ended up on motorcycles as kids,

and we both had the Trail 50 experience, as I think probably 50% of motorcycles

riders must have as their first experience on a motorcycle.

So Phil Leslie on how it is you got started and your love for motorcycles, how they got

kicked off.

Okay, great, yeah.

So when I was eight, I had a Trail 50 on the family ranch in southeastern Washington

State. Then as I got into high school and college, didn't ride a lot, rode friend's bikes

and would do things like that. But when I turned 30, about 15 years ago, I got into a motorcycling pretty seriously,

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