Ep. 395: American Road Trip Expert & Solo Motorcyclist Revisited - Tamela Rich
Adventure Sports Podcast
Curt Linville
4.6 • 580 Ratings
🗓️ 9 July 2018
⏱️ 67 minutes
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Summary
Tamela Rich began her love affair with the open road as a child, traveling with her family in the Vista Cruiser wagon from Ohio to California every other summer. She re-discovered America in the wake of a personal crisis, when she learned how to ride a motorcycle and took her first solo cross-country ride. Tamela learned to ride when she was 48 and three months after getting her motorcycle endorsement, took off on an 18-state 7500 mile solo trip from NC to Oregon and back. Since then she's traveled 47 states and 5 Canadian provinces on her motorcycle, mostly solo. Her award-winning book, "Live Full Throttle: Life Lessons from Friends Who Faced Cancer" was based on two years of cross-country motorcycling for cancer causes.
Tamela is also writing her new book "Fear: How to communicate with the Great Messenger of Life". If you have a great story about fear or questions about fear, feel free to contact Tamela through her website.
Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/tamelarich
Twitter: @TamelaRich
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| 0:00.0 | Turns out, he got a diagnosis of macular degeneration, and he decided he was going to walk home and see America before he went blind. |
| 0:18.6 | I mean, I thought I was, you know, doing something. Here's a guy who's |
| 0:22.0 | walking. And mind you, he's gone from Seattle to Kansas on foot. And so I was just asking him |
| 0:29.1 | about, like, how he was doing it and what kind of gear he had. He said, gear. I said, yeah, like, |
| 0:35.1 | what kind of shoes you've been wearing? He said, oh, he said, just |
| 0:38.8 | pointed down to the ground. He said, I just, I picked these up for $15 at the, at the Walmart. |
| 0:44.6 | They're working just fine for me. Episode 395, a summer break revisit with Tamala Rich |
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| 1:34.2 | the inspiration and motivation you need to get started in the outdoors or to keep you moving |
| 1:38.7 | if you're already there. Welcome to another episode of the Adventure Sports podcast. Tamila Rich |
| 1:43.9 | began her love affair with the open road as a child, traveling with her family in the Vista Cruiser wagon from Ohio to California every other summer. She rediscovered America in the wake of the personal crisis when she learned how to ride a motorcycle and took her first solo cross-country ride. Tamila learned to ride when she was 48 and three |
| 2:02.8 | months after getting her motorcycle endorsement took off on an 18-state 7,500 mile solo trip from |
| 2:10.3 | North Carolina to Oregon and back. Since then, she's traveled 47 states and five Canadian |
| 2:15.6 | provinces on her motorcycle, mostly solo. |
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