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Thank you. grant, learn more in the show notes. Hey folks, welcome to the Adventure Sports podcast. I'm your host, Mason. Today's episode is actually from my other show without compromise. This episode just came out last Friday, but I wanted to play it here because it's so applicable. We talked to Eric Sedena, who I met, by the way, on a cross-country bike ride back in 2016.

He retraces black history through the form of bicycle travel. He is known as the

bicycle nomad on Instagram, and honestly in real life. He's like the bicycle nomad.

Does some of the coolest trips. He retrace the Underground Railroad. And this experience is going

back to 1897 when he is retracing the 25th Infantry Regiment Bicycle Corps, commissioned by the U.S.

Army to determine if bicycle travel is feasible to transport troops. And their mission was to bicycle

almost 2,000 miles from Missouri,

I'm sorry, Missoula, Montana to St. Louis, Missouri. And this is, like I said, 1897. Bicycles are not

where they are today. Roads are not where they are today. And of course, equality wasn't

where it was today. This was just a few decades after the Civil War, which we all know, slavery was abolished.

So these folks are very close to that timeline.

Some of them may have been slaves themselves.

Their parents, of course, sibling, family was.

So, you know, the world's a different place at this time. We've made a lot of progress since. There's obviously still a lot of

racism out there, but Eric is bringing these stories to life, giving them new meaning, deeper

understanding, finding out who these people are, what their stories are, because of course,

with any sort of history,

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