Nathan and Dorothy’s Postie Bike Adventure and Three Day Planning

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4.9 • 915 Ratings

🗓️ 9 January 2015

⏱️ 71 minutes

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Postie Bike Rider - Nathan Millward Tours the Globe Nathan and Dorothy have enjoyed a special relationship over the years. Dorothy is getting up there in years, but after she retired from the Australian Postal service, she was still going strong and joined Nathan as he traversed around the world. They’ve been very close, travelling together from Sydney to London, covering 23,000 miles, through 18 countries in 9 months, with only THREE DAYS PLANNING! How is that even possible? Then a few years later, Dorothy put her trust in Nathan again and they rode across America in 3 and a half months, through Canada and the United States travelling 8,000 miles. Oh, did we mention that Dorothy is a ‘postie bike’, a 2004 Honda CT110 used to deliver the mail in Australia? That’s right. In this story about a guy who seems to like to jump in with both feet and just go for it, we hear all about Nathan Millward’s adventures with dependable Dorothy. Author of two books, The Long Ride Home and Running Towards the Light, Nathan regals the reader with tales of his and Dorothy’s challenging, and sometimes frustrating, world trips. www.nathanmillward.com

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0:00.0	When planning for any adventure, the question is, how much time does it take to plan?
0:04.2	If you were to read Chris Scott's book on motorcycle adventuring,
0:07.1	he would tell you that the trip around the world takes a minimum of one year planning.
0:11.2	And that's probably good advice.
0:12.6	So if you're going to travel 264 days,
0:14.9	about nine months, 23,000 miles, 18 countries.
0:17.8	You're going to ride your motorcycle from Sydney, Australia
0:20.2	to London, England.
0:21.2	The question is, how much time do you put into planning that trip?
0:24.3	And three days of planning.
0:25.8	And three days of planning.
0:28.8	Did he just say three days?
0:30.0	And three days of planning. This is
0:44.3	Zoe Cano and my Bonneville here in London and you're listening to Adventure Rider Radio.
0:51.2	I'm Jim Martin. This is Adventure Rider Radio. We got a good one coming up for you.
0:55.2	We're going to talk with Nathan Milward who's spent nine months on his motorcycle
0:58.9	after only three days of planning. I don't know is it me the more we cover on this show it seems like
1:06.8	the fewer excuses that are left not to get out there and ride. Stick around
1:11.2	three-day planning coming up next.
1:14.0	Well we're going to start off this show by saying welcome to 2015.
1:18.0	This is the first official episode of Adventure Rider Radio for 2015
1:22.0	and as I mentioned on the last episode we are now
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