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Part 26: Bicycling the Continental Divide—Mexico to Canada—100 miles in one day

09-06-2013 Frosty Wooldridge

“The pure essence of adventure must be lived firsthand. You run toward the rain, the snow, the tempest. You appreciate sweat pouring down from your brow on a backpack trip. That moment you crest a 14,000 foot peak, every cell..."

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Interview: Frosty Wooldridge on his “Bicycling the Continental Divide Ride—Mexico to Canada—2013”

09-03-2013 Frosty Wooldridge

Join legendary radio talk show host Barry Farber tonight as he interviews six continent world bicycle traveler Frosty Wooldridge on his “Bicycling the Continental Divide Ride—Mexico to Canada—2013”.

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Part 25: Bicycling the Continental Divide—Mexico to Canada—magic of camping

09-03-2013 Frosty Wooldridge

When I was very young and the urge to be someplace else was on me, I was assured by mature people that maturity would this itch. When years described me as mature, the remedy prescribed was middle age.

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Part 24: Bicycling the Continental Divide—Mexico to Canada—Lewis and Clark expedition

08-30-2013 Frosty Wooldridge

““Remember what Bilbo Baggins used to say: It's a dangerous business, Frodo, going out your door. You step onto the road, and if you don't keep your feet, there's no knowing where you might be swept off to.””

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Part 23: Bicycling the Continental Divide—Mexico to Canada—Red Ants Pants

08-29-2013 Frosty Wooldridge

Statue of a mountain man in Montana. Mountain men lived rough, tough and dangerous lives. They trapped beaver, shot their own food, built their own cabins, traded with the Indians, got killed by grizzly bears and lived hard lives.

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Part 22: Bicycling the Continental Divide—Mexico to Canada—Big Sky Montana

08-26-2013 Frosty Wooldridge

“Time means nothing now. It slips away as easily as grains of sand on a wind-swept beach.Those grains only trade places. On my bike, I change the same way—new locations in the passage of time. The pedaling is incidental—like breathing.

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Part 21: Bicycling the Continental Divide—Mexico to Canada—Mammoth Hot Springs

08-22-2013 Frosty Wooldridge

Travel becomes the great educator and humbler. The subtleties of travel acquaint you with great characters of history and inspire you to your own greatness. Travel renders ideas for your own life process.

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Part 20: Bicycling the Continental Divide—Mexico to Canada—Grizzly attack

08-21-2013 Frosty Wooldridge

Ancient Greece featured Aristotle and Socrates. It enthroned its mightiest warrior in Achilles who overthrew Troy with a Trojan horse. The Parthenon boasts the grandest architecture of the Greeks from 776 B.C. But nothing beats the Oracle of Delphi.

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Part 19: Bicycling the Continental Divide—Mexico to Canada—Old Faithful

08-19-2013 Frosty Wooldridge

A million pedal strokes etch memories into the muscles in your legs with a single purpose: to power the crank and move the bicycle forward. Food flows into your body, bringing it power and strength. Water drenches your cells with liquid life.

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Part 18: Bicycling the Continental Divide—Mexico to Canada—Yellowstone

08-16-2013 Frosty Wooldridge

“Pedaling up into the high Sierra Mountains out of Yosemite, you travel light, lean and clean. You carry your house on your bicycle with kitchen, stove, food, water, tent, sleeping bag and mattress. You live simply, spiritually and physically."

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Part 17: Bicycling the Continental Divide—Mexico to Canada—Grand Tetons

08-15-2013 Frosty Wooldridge

Emerson said, "God laughs in flowers." “On a bicycle journey across America, you pedal through, along and past billions of flowers of every color, shape and description. God's laughter speaks to your visual senses."

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Part 16: Bicycling the Continental Divide—Mexico to Canada—Togwotee Pass

08-13-2013 Frosty Wooldridge

Adventure offers every human being the ability to live ‘the’ moment of his or her most passionate idea, fantasy or pursuit. It may take form in the arts, sports, travel or other creative endeavors. Once engaged, a person enjoys ‘satori’ or....

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Part 15: Bicycling the Continental Divide—Mexico to Canada—bucking jackalopes

08-12-2013 Frosty Wooldridge

“On an adventure: the day quits, the road ends, the light fades, your body wearies and the movement of life slows. When you walk the bikes down to the shoreline, this idyllic spot beckons your heart."

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Part 14: Bicycling the Continental Divide—Mexico to Canada—accident and pain

08-09-2013 Frosty Wooldridge

“What is adventure? If a lone wolf lifts his plaintive call into the moonlight near your campsite, you might call that adventure. While you’re sweating like a horse on a climb over a 12,000 foot pass, that could be adventure."

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Part 13: Bicycling the Continental Divide—Mexico to Canada—Pony Express

08-08-2013 Frosty Wooldridge

Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life. [i.e. watching television for endless hours] Don’t be trapped by dogma – which is living with the results of other people’s thinking. Have the courage to follow your dreams.

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Part 12: Bicycling the Continental Divide—Mexico to Canada—headwinds test our resolve

07-31-2013 Frosty Wooldridge

“Let us step into the night and pursue that flighty temptress, adventure.” ― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince

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Part 11: Bicycling the Continental Divide—Mexico to Canada—meeting up with funny riders

07-30-2013 Frosty Wooldridge

"Never forget that life can only be nobly inspired and rightly lived if you take it bravely, as a splendid adventure in which you are setting out into an unknown country, to face many a danger, to meet many a joy, to win and lose many a battle." Ann

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Part 10: Bicycling the Continental Divide—Mexico to Canada—invention of the bicycle

07-29-2013 Frosty Wooldridge

“The bicycle is the most civilized conveyance known to man. Other forms of transport grow daily more nightmarish. Only the bicycle remains pure at heart.” - Iris Murdoch

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Part 9: Bicycling the Continental Divide—Mexico to Canada—old friends and friendship

07-26-2013 Frosty Wooldridge

"I wouldn't be surprised if poetry—poetry in the broadest sense, in the sense of a world filled with metaphor, rhyme, and recurring patterns, shapes, and designs—is how the world works. The world isn't logical, it's a song."

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Part 8: Bicycling the Continental Divide—Mexico to Canada—you never know what happens next

07-25-2013 Frosty Wooldridge

“A man on foot, on horseback or on a bicycle will see more, feel more, enjoy more in one mile than the motorized tourists can in a hundred miles.” ~ Edward Abbey

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Part 7: Bicycling the Continental Divide—Mexico to Canada—pounding over high passes

07-23-2013 Frosty Wooldridge

"Life is like a 10-speed bicycle. Most of us have gears we never use." ~Charles Schultz, creator of the Peanuts cartoon strip.

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Part 6: Bicycling the Continental Divide—Mexico to Canada—into the mountains

07-22-2013 Frosty Wooldridge

“Ever bike? Now that's something that makes life worth living!...Oh, to just grip your handlebars and lay down to it, and go ripping and tearing through streets and road, over railroad tracks and bridges, threading crowds, avoiding collisions."