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Adventure Rider Radio – Motorcycle Podcast

How the Pandemic Saved an Alaskan Adventure - Donovan Lucibello

Adventure Rider Radio – Motorcycle Podcast

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🗓️ 1 July 2021

⏱️ 108 minutes

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Summary

Donovan Lucibello hadn’t ridden a motorcycle in years, but when he discovered dual sport riding he decided that he wanted to ride from Montana to Alaska. Having a short window he rode one way and decided to leave his motorcycle in Anchorage with a...

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Well we all have a pandemic story but not very often you hear one that goes like this

0:04.8

When the pandemic propagated through the world and sort of all of our lives were sort of flipped upside down

0:09.5

The economy changed in ways that no one seemed to be able to understand or predict.

0:14.0

Some people lost their jobs. Many had to work at home. And few were going anywhere, definitely not traveling.

0:20.5

And you would think that a nurse would be in high demand during that time.

0:24.0

But this wasn't the case for Donovan Luca Bello.

0:26.0

He's a nurse. He refers to himself, actually, as Nurse Ratchet.

0:30.0

Not the one from the movie, One Flea over the C cuckoo's nest but a ratchet and socket

0:34.5

wielding nurse fixing his own motorcycles.

0:36.5

Anyway Donovan came up with a plan when he found himself out of work.

0:40.5

He decided he'd finish an adventure to Alaska that he had started two years before.

0:45.0

Now, just how he would pull that off, what the Alaskans would think of him when he arrived,

0:50.0

and what he would do if anything went wrong? Well, all that coming up.

0:54.0

I'm Jim Martin, this is Adventure Rider Radio.

0:56.2

Stay with us.

0:56.9

We got a good one for you.

0:58.0

I'm Simonic. I'm Simon Manneak.

1:04.0

Z. Simon, man, Simon, David,

1:06.0

Graham Field.

1:07.0

Jocelyn Snow,

1:08.0

Charlie Bobbbing. Simon Thomas, Grand Johnson.

1:10.0

Jimmy Lewis.

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