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wh5: Is that your bicycle? Could I ask you why it has two chains?
Goat: The wheels are too wide for a standard crank so I had to figure a way to transfer the drive to the rear wheels.
wh5: And you’re heading for?
Goat: We started in Alaska about 3 years ago, we're hoping to reach the bottom of South America by next spring.
Wh5: You travel with friends?
Goat: There are three of us.
wh5: And do you blog about this?
Goat: Sure, you can follow the progress at ridingthespine.com.
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Voice-over
A crowd gathers, questions are asked in Spanish. Goat (his real name) fields them deftly. His sister arrives having just flown in. Jacob says the crowds gather whenever they stop in a town square, and the usual questions come up. You can imagine they are mostly the usual what, when, where, who, why types, even if they sometimes lack an interrogative.
If you read Goat’s bio on the website here, you can’t but help admire his independence, inventiveness, curiosity. If more of us traveled this way, tourism might not have such a dark side.
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