One Motorbike, One Ride—No Going Home Until We Get Around the World
Adventure Rider Radio
Canoe West Media
4.9 • 915 Ratings
🗓️ 24 October 2025
⏱️ 66 minutes
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When the life she’d planned took an unexpected turn, Kathleen Perry had to find her footing again. The quiet retirement she and her husband had imagined was gone when he passed away — so she reached back to something she’d set aside long ago: a dream to wander. She set her sights on three places — Prudhoe Bay, Ushuaia, and Nordkapp — three dots on the map. And to connect those dots, she would ride a motorcycle.
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| 0:00.9 | When your life plan, plan A, suddenly disappears, it can no doubt be crushing, and many of us will just freeze. |
| 0:09.7 | Kathleen Perry had plan A. |
| 0:12.8 | She and her husband, Calvin, her best friend, planned a quiet retirement and a little travel. |
| 0:18.4 | They bought a lifestyle block, what they call in Australia, what we would call a hobby farm, |
| 0:23.9 | and they were well on their way until in 2021 Calvin died of cancer, and plan A was suddenly gone. |
| 0:32.3 | There was no plan B until Kathleen reached back to something that she had shelved when she was just 18 years old, |
| 0:39.7 | a simple urge to wander, to travel. |
| 0:43.2 | She set her sights on three places, Prudo Bay, Uswaya, and Nordcap, three dots on the map. |
| 0:50.5 | And to connect those dots, she would ride a motorcycle. |
| 0:54.6 | Plan B was simple. |
| 0:57.0 | One motorbike, one ride, no going home until we get around the world. |
| 1:02.3 | I'm Jim Martin. |
| 1:03.2 | This is Adventure Rider Radio. |
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