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.

I didn't know the earth was moving.

I just couldn't understand why all these houses were falling around and falling down around me.

Sometimes the road seems lonely and sad there's danger around every bend but my troubles are

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

I know I can reach journey's end

There'll be laughter and light when I ride into town

And we are together again

Each place that I go I take with me their smiles, the songs and the words that they've

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

journey's end. There'll be laughter and light when I ride into town. Now in case you didn't pick it up,

this song is about motorcycle travel. It's about world travel and

making friends around the world. It's called Far Away Friends and it's by Linda Bootherstone Bick,

who is an adventure motorcyclist that you've never come across before. This is the first one that I've

come across. She's been riding for over 52 years. She's ridden all around the world and her life

is about riding motorcycles around the world.

That's it.

You see, normally we get people on the show who have had what we would call a quote-unquote normal life,

and then they break away and they go off on a trip and they have an adventure.

And they can see things from a certain perspective, the juxtaposition between the two different lives,

the life before

and the life after. And we often talk about that. Well, Linda doesn't have that perspective

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