Biking Across Latin America with Erin Azouz

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🗓️ 13 February 2024

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Summary

What if swiping on a dating app led you to your partner and an epic bike ride the length of Latin America? This was the case for Erin Azouz and her now-husband Mehedi. The bike trip profoundly shifted Erin's relationship with her work, her husband, and most importantly with herself.

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0:00.0	I realized that it was a test.
0:03.2	How committed am I out here?
0:06.0	I'm getting on the bike every day and I'm doing the work
0:09.0	and yes, I have these amazing days
0:11.8	where I feel strong and triumphant over each hill that I'm cresting,
0:16.8	but then there's all these other days that I feel weak and like I kind of just want to you know crawl in bed and have my mommy
0:28.0	make me soup and I kind of had to look at myself and say you're stronger than this you can keep going get better and let's
0:37.8	hit the road again.
0:40.3	Ten years ago artist and photographer Aaron Azuz never thought that she would be biking 10,000 miles from Mexico to Patagonia.
0:48.0	She was working for a design firm in New Mexico, and getting on a bike didn't sound that interesting to her. But when she met
0:54.7	her now husband Meheri on Tinder in 2015, things changed and fast. Meheri convinced
1:01.4	Aaron to go on what turned out to be a life-altering journey through Mexico, Central, and South America.
1:07.0	The bike trip profoundly shifted Aaron's relationship with her work, her husband, and most importantly with herself. I'm Shelby Stanger and this is
1:16.1	Wild Ideas Worth Living an REI co-op studios production brought to you by Capital One.
1:29.0	Biking from Mexico to Patagonia is an epic continental journey. When Aaron first set out, she had no idea how long the trip would take. If she'd known the ride would last almost two years,
1:36.1	she might not have gone. Two years is a massive commitment, especially considering that
1:41.6	Aaron and Mejadi hadn't been together for very long.
1:45.0	Aaron Aesus, welcome to Wild Ideas Worth Living.
1:51.0	We're excited to chat with you. Thank you. I'm excited to
1:54.0	chat with you too. So I love interviewing badass females with like the most
1:59.2	extreme wild ideas which yours was to bike all of Latin America.
2:05.0	Yes. So many questions.
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