Every Mile a Story
Adventure Rider Radio
Canoe West Media
4.9 • 915 Ratings
🗓️ 27 March 2025
⏱️ 88 minutes
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Summary
Carl and Isabel Abrams traded their comfortable life in the UK for an open-ended motorcycle journey around the world after a cancer diagnosis reshaped their priorities. Now, 18 months and 16 countries later, they share unforgettable stories of the people they've met and the connections that have changed them. This episode is about more than travel—it's about chasing a dream and discovering the heart of humanity along the way.
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| 0:00.0 | Carl and Isabel Abrams lived in a house in the UK, each with a job they had worked at for many years and enjoyed thoroughly. |
| 0:09.0 | Then in 2017, they rode motorcycles through Scandinavia, and that ride seemed to create a spark of interest they hadn't known before, an interest in motorcycle travel. |
| 0:20.4 | A short time later, Isabel was diagnosed with cancer, |
| 0:23.9 | and that diagnosis seemed to be a bit of a tipping point for them. The Abrams changed everything. |
| 0:30.0 | They traded security for quality of life experiences. They sold what they could. They put their |
| 0:35.5 | house up for sale. They created two Yamaha motorcycles |
| 0:38.4 | and stepped aboard a flight to the Americas to begin the adventure of their life. What began as a |
| 0:44.7 | distant dream became a bold decision to travel the world by motorcycle. We first heard their |
| 0:51.0 | story on Adventure Rider Radio back on February 1st, 2024. |
| 0:55.6 | It's called Mniana No More. |
| 0:57.7 | And at that time, they'd ridden only as far as Mexico. |
| 1:00.1 | They were getting ready for Central America. |
| 1:02.2 | In this follow-up episode today, we reconnect with Carl and Isabel after 18 months on the road, |
| 1:08.1 | riding through 16 countries. |
| 1:09.6 | They're going to share stories of the people they've met, the friendships they've made, |
| 1:12.1 | the incredible places and experience they've had, as well as those things that you can only |
| 1:16.7 | experience after spending a lot of time on the road, the ups and downs of life on the road by |
| 1:21.9 | motorcycle. |
| 1:23.0 | I'm Jim Martin. |
| 1:23.9 | This is Adventure Rider Radio. |
| 1:25.5 | Stay with us. |
| 1:26.1 | We get a good one for you. |
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