Two Wheels to Anywhere

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“We opened my aunt’s basement door and walked into the dusty room. Among cardboard boxes and carpentry tools stood a bright red bicycle. The frame had a few patches of rust. The components looked clunky and the gears grated roughly when I spun the pedals. It had no seat post or saddle. It was unrideable, but it had character,” remembers Graeme Lee Rowlands. He had a few months before he would move from Oakland, CA to start college in Squamish, BC. And he had decided that he would make the 1000-mile trip on a bicycle that he would build himself. He didn’t know anything about building a bike, nor had he ever ridden more than 40-miles in a day. But he was determined.

Music: A Place I Know by MC Cullah    •    Title of Photograph Filled With Dread in Los Angeles by Chuck Hoffman    •    Intro by Angie and the Carwrecks    •    Wake Me Up by Publish the Quest    •    Animal by The British IBM

Learn more about our friends from Publish the Quest in the “Sodade” episode.

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