The Shorts-- Fistful of Hearts

The Dirtbag Diaries

Duct Tape Then Beer

Sports, Wilderness

4.8 • 2.6K Ratings

🗓️ 28 June 2019

⏱️ 17 minutes

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“We biked through wind, rain, and snow. If lightning struck, we kept going. We only stopped if it got too close. We outran tornadoes in Oklahoma. We waited out a storm in an old horse barn in Montana, huddled like penguins, our bikes cast carelessly aside in the mud,” writes John Flynn. After John lost his mom to cancer, he biked with a group of friends from Texas to Alaska to try to find her again-- in the mountains, the rivers, and the solitude of the open road.

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0:00.0	If the first 50 years were an experiment, to prove that a business could be
0:05.4	responsible and successful, turns out it's not just possible, it's profitable.
0:11.7	So what's next? What's next is simple, it's human power and it's finding the joy
0:17.8	in doing difficult things. What's next is turning capitalism on its head and
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0:42.8	You're listening to The Dirt Pack Darius, a production of duct tape then beer,
0:46.9	with additional support from Kuat Racks because you love your bike. Rumpel,
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0:57.5	you.
1:07.5	By the time I had past six degrees north, the parallel marking the border between
1:11.7	BC and the Yukon, it was like the sun had stopped setting. I went to sleep when
1:17.2	it was light and I woke up when it was light. The days grew long and ran endlessly
1:21.8	into one another. Indistinguishable, except by the few hours of sleep I put between them.
1:26.8	The closest that came to dark was an unending twilight. Time became separated only by the
1:31.6	numbers and the pages of my journal and the star is faded away as did any hopes of
1:35.7	seeing the northern lights.
1:40.2	It took more than two months to get to the wild far north, Yukon territory. We had made
1:45.1	it in 58 days to the border between British Columbia and Yukon. 58 days on the bike. It
1:50.4	was a hard trek, brutal at times, but also full of beautiful moments, the kind that make
1:55.3	the suffering worth it. For the first time in a long while, I felt a quiet I had been
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