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Jo Rust - Around Africa : Woman Alone - Motorcycle Journey

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4.9960 Ratings

🗓️ 9 December 2014

⏱️ 94 minutes

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Summary

Jo Rust rides her motorbike around Africa alone just because someone stole her bike.

Transcript

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0:00.0

And that evening as we were having dinner, four guys armed with guns stormed into house, and tied us to the chids.

0:17.0

So this was an armed robbery.

0:24.0

You know, they just wanted money.

0:30.0

And I think she's wanted money.

0:34.0

And I think she just wanted money. And I think I was just in the does anybody see the irony in this I mean, Hi. Hi, it's Simon Pavey here calling to you from Sunny Wales and you're listening to

1:19.0

adventure writer radio. videos. I'm Jim Martin. We get a good one for you today. Today's story is about Yolandy Rust or Joe.

1:37.0

Starting out by bicycle, Joe inadvertently finds herself riding a motorcycle around Africa.

1:45.0

Okay, so my name is Joe Rust.

1:49.0

I'm from South Africa and I am an adventure rider.

1:53.0

That's what I do.

1:55.0

Good morning, Joe.

2:00.0

Good morning Joe and welcome to Adventure Rider Radio.

2:04.7

Thank you Jim, nice to be here.

2:08.3

You are spending time riding around Africa and that's probably very simplistic the way I'm saying that.

2:14.3

But you didn't start out riding a motorcycle so let's begin right at the beginning.

2:18.8

There must be something that drove this desire to travel in you.

2:27.8

Yes definitely. Look initially the idea was to cycle around Africa on my bike on my bicycle and this started about seven years ago

2:35.3

when I say to myself, you know what,

2:37.5

I want to do something big with my life.

2:39.6

Life is short.

2:40.9

We're always telling each other that you should live your dreams and not have any regrets.

2:46.7

And I said to myself, well, what's the biggest thing I can think of?

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