Ep. 439: From Alcoholic to an Alaska Adventure Revisited - Robert Shearon
Adventure Sports Podcast
Curt Linville
4.6 • 579 Ratings
🗓️ 8 November 2018
⏱️ 83 minutes
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Summary
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 any attention to the road at all. |
| 0:12.4 | And you can take in all the scenery. |
| 0:18.6 | This is the Adventure Sports podcast brought to you by 180Tack. |
| 0:22.9 | Get out there and have some fun. |
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| 0:51.1 | So if you keep listening to the episode, I'll tell you how to save 20% off an order with them. |
| 0:55.8 | But until then, here's the episode. |
| 1:02.4 | Hey, welcome to the show. Every once in a while, you hear a story that basically encompasses what adventure is supposed to be about. It has every aspect |
| 1:16.1 | that you need from danger to bizarre to a great motivation. And this story is definitely my |
| 1:24.9 | favorite story that has ever been on the Adventure Sports podcast. |
| 1:29.5 | This is a flashback from over a year ago, a year and a half ago with a guy named Robert |
| 1:34.7 | Sheeran who to fight his drug and alcohol addiction while in college, he rode a scooter, |
| 1:41.9 | literally like a moped to Alaska from Colorado. And it is, it is everything |
| 1:49.9 | in adventure should be. So I encourage you to listen. He's incredibly entertaining. And if you |
| 1:57.6 | know anyone that can tell a story like Robert, I am always, always looking for more |
| 2:03.6 | people to tell their story because this, this is the most entertaining episode I've ever heard |
| 2:10.3 | on this show. I hope I didn't hype it up too much, but something about it just gets me. Maybe you resonate with that. Maybe you won't, |
| 2:20.3 | but at the very least, give it a listen, see if you feel the rawliness of this, of this interview. |
| 2:27.4 | All right, here it is. |
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