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Ryan Libhart Pereyda & Nathan Wirt push the boundaries of travel to the outermost limits. As they describe their wild adventures riding motorcycles from South America to California, across the US, Europe, the Middle East and Africa, there seems to be no limit to how far these two friends and travel mates would go in the name of adventure. Our story picks up here as the two venture to all the way to Nairobi, Kenya. There, they meet someone who becomes a special friend (and who keeps an artifact from their trip). Life lessons and resourcefulness, insights into different cultures, and a sundry of stories from Nate and Rien on their two epic journeys together await you!

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Ryan Libhart Pereyda & Nathan Wirt push the boundaries of travel to the outermost limits. As they describe their wild adventures riding motorcycles from South America to California, across the US, Europe, the Middle East and Africa, there seems to be no limit to how far these two friends and travel mates would go in the name of adventure. Their stories ultimately take us deeper and deeper into remote Africa across deserts to a remote oasis near the Libyan border, through war-torn no-man-land countries like Sudan and Somalia, and into some of the most isolated parts of East Africa and beyond. Life lessons and resourcefulness, insights into different cultures, and a sundry of stories from Nate and Rien on their two epic journeys together await you, never knowing what's around the next corner on Transcontinental motorcycle adventures with Ryan Libhart Pereyda & Nathan Wirt: Part 1. 

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When traveling off the beaten path it’s pretty easy to misread the most obvious. Sometimes we trip and fall down. Sometimes we just look foolish. And once in a while we learn something from it.

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Up in the hills of California's Coastal Range late at night in 1984, Joey Raspo and Skid draw out a plan on the back of an old napkin to travel to Egypt and climb to the top of the pyramids. Danny Puccinelli joins the escapade at the last hour and the three friends end up on an epic adventure.  Lost Italian relatives, sand storms on the Sinai, a Bedouin encampment, a sojourn in a cave, and a climb to the top of the Great Pyramid of Giza await. This edited version of their odyssey changes the names to protect the guilty.   

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In this episode, we pick up where we left off last week. Greg is 1,000 miles from the coast to complete his journey across the continent of Africa. His last ride ends up being perhaps the worst one yet and he enters a Zen-like state to get through it. He reaches Cameroon and spies something on a train so familiar yet so foreign at the same time.  Greg finally knocks on the door of a French mission only to have to talk his way in using extremely limited French.  Finally, he takes a six-hour plane ride back to Nairobi and reflects on his seven-month journey. 

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We pick up where we left off on Greg’s epic journey across the continent of Africa. On this week’s episode, Greg discusses his time in the Central African Republic. He makes his way from Zongo to Bangui across the Ubgangi River (after having to bribe to get there). Then, he escapes a curious kid holding a long screwdriver who kept following him, and runs into a motorcade with the country’s infamous self-proclaimed former Emperor Jean-Bédel Bokassa. All in search of a cholera shot to get back out of the country.

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Greg continues sharing his stories from his epic adventure across Africa. On this episode, he’s just left Bumba after recovering from malaria. He stays at a Hotel Californiaesque place in Lisala where he hears a knock on the door only to be surprised by a strange creature. Then, after sleeping on trucks, he makes his way to Zongo and enjoys the dancing, beer, and listening to kwasa kwasa. And then, the lights across the Ubangi River draw him in, but he needs to bribe his way to get there. But that’s for the next episode!

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This is the second part of our back-to-back episodes with André Ripa. You can learn more about his transformative work at Spirit Musique, where he merges music and powerful imagery with today’s most compelling technologies. Spirit Healing Arts is his platform for teaching, facilitating and co-creating expansive health and conscious growth.  On this episode, we explore "Prayer for Humanity," André’s newest album recorded and released during the pandemic.

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André Ripa is our guest on back-to-back episodes. His work with Spirit Musique promotes human transformation through the creation of immersive entertainment experiences that merge uplifting music and powerful imagery with today’s most compelling technologies. Spirit Healing Arts is his platform for teaching, facilitating and co-creating expansive health and conscious growth. Learn about André’s powerful passion for his life’s work to bring music and light into the world! 

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Greg Traverso vividly describes his encounters with the military in Zaire.  From an intense moment out of nowhere when machine guns are drawn, to a little bent nail serving as the lock on the door of his shack inside a remote military outpost, to an encounter with a scalawag corporal and his minions on the banks of the Congo River and a strange request for safe passage, Greg shares his foray into no man's land.

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