Hello and welcome to the Bikes for Death podcast. My name is Patrick, and I'm your digital tour guide taking you on conversational journeys with radical people who recreate on bikes and love the outdoors.

Thank you so much for joining me today. Today's guest is Rebecca Vader, who is not a big name.

In fact, many of you may have not heard of her.

She came on my radar when one of my listeners sent me a link to her Instagram,

started following her and her journeys.

I knew nothing about her. I watched, I followed her for like

a day or two knowing nothing about her, nothing about her story. I really enjoyed her unique

perspectives, not only on cycling, but just life. She is, I found her to be very entertaining and just full of all kinds

of, yeah, different perspectives on just about everything we talked about. You know, like anytime I

asked her a question and kind of thought I might know what the answer was, she always surprised me

with her answer.

It was always something that I didn't expect.

And I really enjoyed that.

You know, it's always good to have different perspectives

and different ways of looking at things.

You know, I'm starting to think that all bike packers are just awesome.

It's so crazy how, you know, I see somebody on Instagram,

shoot them a message, set up a time to talk. I don't know anything about them. We've never

talked before. But then you just get into these like really intense and fun and cool conversations with you know some of the most

interesting people that I've ever met it's funny because like I'm getting kind of used to

talking to these amazing people and it's becoming like normal but what we're talking about is not normal at all.

I mean, these people are awesome.

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