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Solo VS Group Adventure Motorcycle Travel with Jim Martin, Brent Henry, Bill Hooykaas, Greg Powell

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🗓️ 28 October 2014

⏱️ 72 minutes

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Group VS Solo Adventure Motorcycle Travel The pro's and con's of group versus solo travel. Bill Hooykaas and Greg Powell with their Two Ways Down presentation from this year's HUBB meet in Ontario, Canada and ARR host Jim Martin and adventure rider and photographer Brent Henry discuss their experience and things to consider when traveling with a group and solo. www.adventureriderradio.com Greg Powell's website Horizons Unlimited Meetings

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0:00.0

Travel. It's a universal question, be it for motorcycle adventures, hikers, canoeist, whatever.

0:08.4

Often the first response people give is that there's safety in numbers.

0:12.3

And that's true. But with numbers, there's safety in numbers. And that's true, but with numbers there's

0:14.4

also some drawbacks like divided interest in the places you're visiting, or maybe

0:19.2

your traveling speed. One goes slow, one goes fast. And the question quickly becomes a quandary as you go through the

0:25.8

pros and cons of each. The answer is often in compromise. What are you willing

0:30.2

to give up here to gain there? Today we look at solo versus group travel and in the end

0:35.8

what's your compromise? Hi this is

0:55.0

is Jeremy Craker. You're listening to Adventure Rider Radio.

1:00.0

I'm Jim Martin and this is Adventure Rider Radio. We got a good one coming up for you.

1:05.0

We're going to listen to Greg Powell and Bill Hoykis do their presentation two ways down which we

1:09.3

recorded at the Horizons Unlimited Meet in Ontario in the Muscocas this year in 2014.

1:14.8

We're also going to talk with Brent Henry, a motorcyclist from British Columbia about

1:19.6

Solo versus Group Travel. Well, to kick things off, we're going to go straight to the Horizons Unlimited

1:28.1

Meat in Ontario, Canada and Perry Sound recorded this year in 2014, where we've got Greg Powell and Bill Hoykis doing

1:34.7

their presentation two ways down. Now you remember a few episodes ago we covered the hub meeting in Ontario or at least a little bit of it anyway and at that meeting I listened to Greg Powell and Bill Hoykis.

1:54.9

Do a presentation they call two ways down,

1:56.7

which is quite interesting because the two of them

1:59.1

have done the same trip, only completely different ways.

2:02.4

One has taken the trip solo, I believe it was

2:04.7

Greg Powell, had done the trip solo, and Bill Hoykis had signed on with a

2:09.2

commercial group and done the trip with them. And throughout this presentation they talk about the juxtaposition between the two types of trips

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