Go Ruffly Across the Darien Gap - Jess and Greg Stone

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4.9 • 915 Ratings

🗓️ 26 July 2024

⏱️ 102 minutes

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Summary

The Darien Gap is one of the most dangerous routes in the Americas. It’s a remote, lawless expanse of mountainous rainforest that spans Colombia and Panama. After Jess and Greg Stone from Go Ruffly finished training their new puppy, Whimsy, to ride on a motorcycle, they headed 20,000 km south, shipped their bikes from Panama and endured a gruelling five-day trek through mud, rivers, and jungle to cross the Darien Gap. On their journey through this inhospitable terrain, they encountered thousands of migrants walking the same treacherous route in reverse, navigated dozens of harrowing miles through the tropical rainforest and in the end were reunited with their motorcycles in Colombia. Photos and links related to this episode can be found in the show notes. Adventure Rider Radio and RAW are the longest-running adventure motorcycle and travel podcasts and we remain committed to bringing you new and exciting episodes every Thursday. Never miss an episode, be sure to FOLLOW the show on your favourite podcast app. Have a show idea or suggestion, send us an email. We'd love to hear from you! If you can, we’d love to get your support, please visit the Support page on our website. Thank you for listening!

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0:00.0	Jess and Greg Stone are Go Roughly. That's what they call themselves socially. It's also the name of their business.
0:07.0	Go Roughly manufactures dog accessories and a renowned motorcycle dog rack.
0:12.0	Yep, for putting your dog on your bike. a renowned motorcycle dog rack.
0:12.6	Yep, for putting your dog on your bike.
0:14.8	It's pretty slick.
0:16.3	Jess and Greg are also motorcycle travelers,
0:18.8	so they've sort of developed their lives
0:20.8	so that they can travel on their motorcycles and run their business from the road. their Well, last year, their dog Moxie suddenly died from complications from a routine surgery.
0:37.0	Heartbroken, but dog invested, they set out to find a new pup, train it to ride the motorcycle, and then continue on their journey.
0:45.4	And they did that. They got a new pop. They named it whimsy, trained it to ride on the back
0:49.2	of the bike, and then once again they're headed off to ride around the world.
0:53.4	But according to Greg, Jess sort of enjoys setting challenges for them.
0:58.4	That's over and above traveling by motorcycle around the world with a dog on the back.
1:02.8	This time the challenge was taking it up another notch.
1:05.9	The Pan American Highway runs far north to the tip of North America all the way down to the south of South America.
1:22.0	It's a long network of roads that many people ride from
1:25.3	top to bottom or bottom to top. Mainly, really, they ride it from top to bottom because that
1:31.0	way you'll finish in a place that you can celebrate because if you finish in the north there's just a remote desolate
1:35.9	settlement that's dry not much to celebrate anyway the only break in the
1:41.3	route from going north to south in either direction is between
1:44.4	Central America and South America.
1:47.0	It's called the Darien Gap.
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