Thumping to Nine Iron Butt Rides with Spencer Anderson (192)
Riding 1,000 miles in 24 hours isn’t really all that impressive any more. I mean … I did one in about 21 hours and even had to backtrack almost 100 miles because a highway got …
Category: Long Distance
Aaron Pufal, Electric Cannonball Pioneer (189)
“Nobody’s ever done it,” thought Aaron Pufal. “So I’m gonna do it!” “It” in this case is set the first record for riding an electric motorcycle (a LiveWire!) from coast to coast as fast as …
Heather Lea is Back – and she brought a book! (179)
The last time Heather Lea was on the show was way back in Episode 119. Now she’s back and the book she said she was writing is done and published! Find out the whole saga—of …
Touring two-up with Will and Mae Andalora (178)
“Let’s go on a 5,000-mile trip this summer on my 45-year-old motorcycle,” said dad Will Andalora to daughter Mae in the spring of 2025. “That sounds like a fantastic idea,” said Mae, and the planning …
Kirsten Talken-Spaulding: Motorcycling Park Ranger! (164)
We all heard about cuts to U.S. government agencies in the first quarter of 2025. NO THAT’S NOT WHERE WE’RE GOING WITH THIS! We had questions about how those cuts affected the National Park Service, …
Riding around the world with Noraly Schoenmaker (aka Itchy Boots) and her first book, “Free Ride” (160)
From backpacking to motorcycling and the original Itchy Boots travel blog to a YouTube channel with 2.8 million subscribers (including me), Noraly Schoenmaker has traveled the world and spent hundreds of hours telling us all …
Writing and riding with Melissa Holbrook Pierson (136)
Dogs, horses … motorcycles! Melissa writes what she knows, and she *knows* motorcycles. Welcome to Season 6 of Chasing the Horizon! With 135 episodes behind us, we’re all excited to move forward after a long …
Prepping for a long trip with Mark Barnes (135)
BONUS (CROSSOVER) EPISODE!! I say that because the discussion in Episode 135 is repurposed from another podcast, The Ride Inside with Mark Barnes. In that podcast, Mark gets into the psychological aspects of motorcycling, and he …
Epic journey during the pandemic? No problem with viajarMOTO! (128)
Maintaining an active, vibrant YouTube channel has its challenges, as we learn from Travis and Chantil Gill, the couple behind the viajarMOTO moto-travel/content endeavor. Welcome to Episode 128 of Chasing the Horizon, the podcast by, …
Heather Lea wants you to stay hydrated (119)
As a writer for Expedition Portal, Heather Lea has the perfect pulpit from which to preach the benefits of proper hydration for all riders – but she’s about more than just making sure you’ve had …