4.9 • 915 Ratings
🗓️ 9 July 2015
⏱️ 68 minutes
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0:00.0 | I didn't even realise I was in the middle of the earthquake because I was on a DR650, which is a big single, and it vibrates anyway. |
0:08.6 | I didn't know the earth was moving. |
0:11.6 | I just couldn't understand why all these houses were falling around and falling down around me. |
0:18.1 | Sometimes the road seems lonely and sad there's danger around every bend but my troubles are |
0:27.5 | halved when I hear in my heart the voice of my far away friends those far away friends give me hope when I'm down |
0:38.9 | I know I can reach journey's end |
0:42.6 | There'll be laughter and light when I ride into town |
0:47.5 | And we are together again |
0:50.3 | Each place that I go I take with me their smiles, the songs and the words that they've |
1:01.0 | penned to share out the love and the hopes and the dreams amongst other faraway friends. Those far away friends give me hope when I'm down. I know I can reach |
1:17.3 | journey's end. There'll be laughter and light when I ride into town. Now in case you didn't pick it up, |
1:24.9 | this song is about motorcycle travel. It's about world travel and |
1:27.9 | making friends around the world. It's called Far Away Friends and it's by Linda Bootherstone Bick, |
1:33.3 | who is an adventure motorcyclist that you've never come across before. This is the first one that I've |
1:38.6 | come across. She's been riding for over 52 years. She's ridden all around the world and her life |
1:43.1 | is about riding motorcycles around the world. |
1:46.0 | That's it. |
1:46.8 | You see, normally we get people on the show who have had what we would call a quote-unquote normal life, |
1:52.0 | and then they break away and they go off on a trip and they have an adventure. |
1:55.3 | And they can see things from a certain perspective, the juxtaposition between the two different lives, |
2:00.4 | the life before |
2:01.2 | and the life after. And we often talk about that. Well, Linda doesn't have that perspective |
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