Ep. 325: A 4600 Mile Scooter Trip to Alaska Holiday Flashback - Robert Shearon
Adventure Sports Podcast
Curt Linville
4.6 • 579 Ratings
🗓️ 23 November 2017
⏱️ 82 minutes
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Holiday Flashback rerun - After battling a drug and alcohol addiction in college, Robert Shearon wanted a way to celebrate sobriety while giving back to the organization that helped him triumph. So he decided to ride a 50cc Honda Ruckus scooter 4600 miles from Vail, Colorado to Anchorage, Alaska. Listen in to hear Robert's story of overcoming his struggle and taking the trip of a lifetime one slow mile at a time.
http://www.colorado.edu/recoverycenter/
http://collegiaterecovery.org/
email Robert: Rkshearon@gmail.com
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/robert.k.shearon
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| 0:00.0 | It was therapeutic driving the scooter along at such a slow pace that you don't have to pay |
| 0:05.5 | any attention to the road at all. And you can take in all the scenery. Episode 325, a holiday |
| 0:13.3 | flashback with Robert Sheeran, a 50-c-c scooter ride, 4,600 miles from Vale, Colorado to |
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| 0:48.1 | Thank you. Adventure. That's action dash heat.com slash adventure. Hi, welcome back to another episode of the Adventure Sports Podcast. |
| 0:51.4 | This is Travis. |
| 0:52.7 | On the line with me today is Robert Sharon. |
| 0:55.6 | I found Robert on Facebook, and he was actually, I think he was a friend of a friend, |
| 1:02.0 | is the way I came across you, Robert. And I thought your story was really cool. |
| 1:07.3 | Robert had overcome some issues with addiction, with drug and alcohol addiction, and he wanted to give back to society. |
| 1:17.1 | So what he did was he came up with this grand scheme of riding a 50-cc scooter from Vail, Colorado, all the way up to Anchorage, Alaska, which is a 4,600-mile tour. |
| 1:29.8 | So we're going to go into who Robert is and what made him decide to take on such a crazy |
| 1:36.0 | little adventure. So first of all, Robert, thanks for joining me. |
| 1:39.2 | Thanks for having me. Appreciate it. |
| 1:41.0 | Yeah, my pleasure. So let's dive into a little bit of who you are, where |
| 1:46.2 | you're from, kind of where do you come from? Give us a feel for who Robert Scheran is. |
| 1:51.8 | I come from born and raised in a town just outside Vail, Colorado. And so grew up in the mountains skiing my whole life. |
| 2:02.6 | I am the oldest of four kids with two amazing parents and three pretty awesome siblings as well. |
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