An adventure becomes more memorable when things happen and interacting with people can turn an adventure into a story, the story of your life.

Sam Manicom, author, speaker, and adventurer,

spent eight years traveling the world by motorcycle,

and over that time he really learned the value

of making a connection with people and he's got

some great stories about that today. Leon Laugathetis rode his yellow side car

motorcycle completely around the world asking total strangers to help him out with food and fuel as he went along.

He had a hidden agenda, though, an agenda that would change the lives of some of the people that helped him along the way.

And photographer Todd Blue Baw,

he wrote his bike across the US in search of meaning.

And as a result, he produced one of the most original coffee table books

for motorcycles that we've seen.

My name's Jim Martin, this is Adventure Rider Radio.

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