Expecting to Turn Back: A Motorcycle Journey That Changed Everything
Adventure Rider Radio - A Motorcycle Podcast
Canoe West Media
4.9 • 915 Ratings
🗓️ 27 December 2025
⏱️ 59 minutes
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Summary
In Kevin Staples’ mind, there was always a point where the trip would end. He didn’t expect to get through. The goal wasn’t success — it was simply to go far enough to say he’d tried. To ride up to the wall, touch it, and be told to turn back. So he kept doing exactly that. Showing up. Asking the question. Taking one more step, fully expecting it to be the last. That isn’t how it played out. By the time Kevin rode his motorcycle home, the road — and the world around him — looked very different than it had when he left.
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| 0:00.7 | In Kevin's mind, there was always a point where the trip would end. He didn't expect to get through. |
| 0:06.9 | He just wanted to go far enough to say that he'd tried, to walk up to the wall, touch it, and be made to turn back. |
| 0:13.4 | So he kept doing it, showing up, asking the question, taking one more step, fully expecting it to be the last. |
| 0:20.5 | It turns out, that's not quite how the world works. |
| 0:24.1 | By the time he rode his motorcycle back home, |
| 0:26.5 | he was seeing places, people, and even his familiar roads, |
| 0:30.4 | through a completely different lens. |
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