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Episode 127: Simon Siggs – Two-Wheeled Traveling Mad Hatter – The Gift of Travel and First Motorcycle

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The Gift of Travel and First Motorcycle

Episode 127

The Gift of Travel and First Motorcycle

Hop aboard for a trip with Simon Siggs. Simon’s a Brit who’s never met a stranger. He shares his love of the peoples and places he’s seen. Simon worked the mail room, rode a bike from the tippy top to the bottom of the Americas and ran a food truck on the English Coast. He shoots photos, makes coffees and wears hats. He’ll opine on teddy bears, foods named after colors and when the travel bug bit him right in the arse.

In this episode, Simon talks of the fulfillment of travel and his very first motorcycle. 

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Episode 122: Simon Siggs – Two-Wheeled Traveling Mad Hatter – Prudhoe to Panama

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Prudhoe to Panama

Episode 122

Prudhoe to Panama

Hop aboard for a trip with Simon Siggs. Simon’s a Brit who’s never met a stranger. He shares his love of the peoples and places he’s seen. Simon worked the mail room, rode a bike from the tippy top to the bottom of the Americas and ran a food truck on the English Coast. He shoots photos, makes coffees and wears hats. He’ll opine on teddy bears, foods named after colors and when the travel bug bit him right in the arse.

In this episode, Simon talks of riding a motorcycle solo from Prudhoe Bay to Panama, and crossing the Darien Gap. 

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Episode 120: Nancy Broen – Traveler in the Moment – A Jingle and a Job Interview Gone Wrong

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A Jingle and a Job Interview Gone Wrong

Episode 120

A Jingle and a Job Interview Gone Wrong

Meet Nancy Broen. She shares advice on marriage, earning degrees (she has three), and pushing through fear. Along the way we learn about crashing cars, accidentally and on purpose, the importance of an inch and memorable job interviews.

 Nancy talks about a jingle and a job interview with fingerprints.

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Episode 119: Nancy Broen – Traveler in the Moment – From Sideways to Handsome

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From Sideways to Handsome

Episode 119

From Sideways to Handsome

Meet Nancy Broen. She shares advice on marriage, earning degrees (she has three), and pushing through fear. Along the way we learn about crashing cars, accidentally and on purpose, the importance of an inch and memorable job interviews.

Nancy talks of a couple of trips that went sideways and traveling with a plethora of handsome men. 

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Episode 118: Nancy Broen – Traveler in the Moment – Africa to Wood Chipper

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Africa to Wood Chipper

Episode 118

Africa to Wood Chipper

Meet Nancy Broen. She shares advice on marriage, earning degrees (she has three), and pushing through fear. Along the way we learn about crashing cars, accidentally and on purpose, the importance of an inch and memorable job interviews.

Nancy talks about it upcoming trips to the East Coast and Africa and also a wood chipper.

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Episode 117: Nancy Broen – Traveler in the Moment – The Art of a Woman-Specific Motorcycle

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The Art of a Woman-Specific Motorcycle

Episode 117

The Art of a Woman-Specific Motorcycle

Meet Nancy Broen. She shares advice on marriage, earning degrees (she has three), and pushing through fear. Along the way we learn about crashing cars, accidentally and on purpose, the importance of an inch and memorable job interviews.

Nancy talks about developing a woman-specific Harley-Davidson motorcycle and traveling a month in Baja.

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Episode 107: Robert Morgan – Riding India – Freedom from Stockholm

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Freedom from Stockholm

Episode 107

Freedom from Stockholm

Join us for a rollicking conversation with Robert Morgan. We’ll talk about a recent trip to India that involved motorcycles, confiscated items and mudslides. Robert builds water parks for a living and was inspired by some of the riding they did during a monsoon for his next designs. Food, accommodations, culture and the ability to stay positive when torrential rains and topographical features work against a group of mostly strangers.

Robert talks of group dynamics under pressure, and finally being free to ride.

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Episode 104: Larry Daniels – Sails and Spirit

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Sails and Spirit

Episode 104

Sails and Spirit

Ski bumming, building chairlifts and falling upstairs with Herman the German and Polka Dan. Meet Larry Daniels. Larry worked and skied in the West as a young man before learning a bit about building ski lifts. He jumped on a job offer to come to Alaska in the early 1970’s. Larry takes us on a journey through the early years at Alyeska Resort to skiing in Japan in the 80’s and beyond. We touch on bar tabs, chairlifts as babysitters and renting sailboats.

Larry wraps up this interview with thoughts about sailing, the Alaska Spirit, and one last good ‘ol days Girdwood anecdote. 

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Episode 103: Larry Daniels – The Bum of the Ski

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The Bum of the Ski

Episode 103

The Bum of the Ski

Ski bumming, building chairlifts and falling upstairs with Herman the German and Polka Dan. Meet Larry Daniels. Larry worked and skied in the West as a young man before learning a bit about building ski lifts. He jumped on a job offer to come to Alaska in the early 1970’s. Larry takes us on a journey through the early years at Alyeska Resort to skiing in Japan in the 80’s and beyond. We touch on bar tabs, chairlifts as babysitters and renting sailboats.

In this episode, Larry talks of ski bumming, traveling to ski, and advice to the potential ski bum. 

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Episode 90: Kevin Neff – Traveling off of a Napkin in Central America and other assorted Alaska Bush Tales

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Brooks Camp Camaraderie

Episode 90

From Guatemala to Katmai

We invite a long-time friend to talk about a range of subjects that includes hand-drawn maps, scammers, pyramids, caving, local buses and fly-fishing waiters in Central America. Then we’ll head back to Alaska, where Kevin has lots of back country experience doing remote construction work. He’s lived on windy mountaintops building cell towers and experienced a National Park where for months at a time, the only humans were those in his work crew.

Kevin regales about a pedestrian bridge at Brooks Camp and a foray to the Land of Ten Thousand Smokes in Katmai. 

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