I mean, you asked me before, how did it feel when the trip finished?

And I have this real vivid memory of somewhere on that descent roach, just having to pedal downhill.

I could see the end game, but I was still having to work really hard to get there.

And I just completely broke down.

Hey folks, welcome to the adventure sports podcast. I'm your host, Mason. Today's episode is just, oh, it's incredible. Tom is so real. He keeps it so raw for us. He obviously went through a pretty hard time with his wife passing away. And as he said to me was he grabbed life by the

horns after that and decided to do this trip that he had been talking about for 20 years,

which is bike pack across Iceland. But we do spend a lot of the episode talking about leading up to

that, talking about his wife passing and how hard

that was.

So if you're going through something or if you've been through this before, I'm sorry if it brings

up, you know, old feelings or wounds.

And if you haven't gone through something like this, there's so much we can all learn

from time and what he's gone through.

And the response he had, which was turning to adventure, turning to effort, and really doing something special with his

time and with his life. And now, and there is an update at the end. I do want to plug that.

It's really awesome to hear the update of his life. So please listen to the whole episode.

And before we jump in,

I did want to thank our recent patrons who have been supporting us, Neap Tide, Justin K.

And Linda S, all new patrons. If you would like to become a patron of the show, sponsor us,

you know, support us monthly, $1, $5, whatever it is, go to the show notes.

But going back to Tom, I do not want to take away from that at all.

And I can't thank him enough for being on the show and telling his story and being so open with us.

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