In Search of Nirvana From the Seat of His Motorcycle - Alan Reid

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4.9 • 960 Ratings

🗓️ 21 July 2023

⏱️ 62 minutes

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Alan Reid is on a mission to find his nirvana, the place that just might inspire him to set down roots. He left British Columbia about a year ago on the most suitable motorcycle for him, a KLR, but he didn’t really do any planning or make a budget....

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0:00.0	Some of the most popular topics are, I would call them tools for planning any motorcycle trip are things like prepping your bike.
0:09.0	That's a huge one, figuring out, well first of, the bike, what bike do you want to take?
0:13.1	And then how are you going to equip it?
0:14.5	What are you going to modify?
0:15.9	What are you going to put on it?
0:17.4	Route planning, riding gear, packing, budget.
0:21.6	These are all tools that will seriously affect your trip, or considerations that will seriously affect your trip.
0:27.2	But what if you didn't use these tools? What if you didn't use any of them?
0:31.2	What if you just jumped on your bike without rebuilding it, without adding a bunch of
0:35.5	farkles to it, without modifying anything without learning roadside repair or how to fix your tire,
0:40.7	without even planning your stops, or even a solid destination or a budget.
0:45.5	Well that would be a different kind of trip.
0:47.9	It wouldn't be for everyone, mainly because of uncertainty.
0:52.1	We humans don't do well with uncertainty, I think we all understand that,
0:55.0	perhaps it's in our DNA to fear the unknown, to not know what will or what might happen to us sort of freaks us out.
1:03.1	Which if you think about it is curious because
1:06.2	isn't that the reason that most people want to travel is to discover new things,
1:10.0	experiences, to be surprised? Yet we spend so much time trying to organize and plan our
1:15.8	adventure so that we don't have these surprises. Today we have Al Reed.
1:21.6	Al is traveling on his motorcycle, his KLR 650.
1:25.2	He's in Central America right now.
1:27.4	Al doesn't use any of the tools, really, that I mentioned at the start here.
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