Travel Stories Episode #3: Motorcycling Across the Western U.S.
In my last podcast I took you to one of the last “untouched” travel spots on the globe, Liberia. Now I’m going to take you to a well traversed locale, the Western United States. It’s the classic challenge, how do you seek out the road less traveled in a place flooded with McDonalds and Walmarts. How do you find the exotic in a place haunted by tourists?
This week, my guest, Ari Shapiro, has the answer as he hops on his motorcycle and explores the blue highways of the Western United States, searching out the places few tourists venture, down roads where he is the only human for miles.
It’s the iconic American image - the lone motorcyclist riding through the great expanse of the American West. This image has replaced that of the lone cowboy riding his horse on the great Plains of the West. Our mythology is filled with these motorcycle tales in books and film, our heroes riding into “one horse towns” that are the last remnants of the West that was.
So backpackers, trade in your two boots for two wheels, saddle on up and listen to my podcast with Ari as he shows us that the exotic can be found right in your backyard.