He didn’t realize it when he was reading Jack London, Jack, Kerouac, John Steinbeck, and Edward Abbey but the authors who waxed literate about the road were preparing him for an odyssey. Last summer, Jon Vickers embarked on a five-week, solo motorcycle trip from Bloomington to Alaska. Along the way, the retired founding director of the IU Cinema viewed some of the Earth’s most beautiful land and North America’s most exotic big creatures.

Hosts Michael Glab and Tristra Newyear chat with Bloomington’s most fascinating people.