Mel Webb

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1,110 appearances 7 recordings 1 series first heard Jun 2026 last heard 30 Jul

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Detours: Bikepacking, Ultra-Cycling and Adventures by Bike · Hannah Glatter on Riding the Great Plains, Choosing Community & Making Your Own Rules · 30 Jul 2026 podcast

Yeah, that's definitely what I wish I would have known going in.

It's always hindsight 2020, right?

You think, oh, there's all these things I would have done differently.

But I guess looking back at the beginning of your ride, aside from not being sure that you could ride that far and wanting to test that ability, what were the other things that you were seeking out in the experience and really wanting to walk away from it with?

What were the like the best parts of that experience in terms of like, was it the unplugging?

Was it the simplicity?

But it's amazing to have the experience and to know what it feels like and also see how you can get more of that in your life.

Though I am so curious, you said you had romanticized elements of doing a big adventure like this.

Was there anything that you had romanticized that actually wasn't all it was cracked up to be?

I love that.

I think it says so much about the community that you've built and the life that you've built and just being true to yourself in your everyday.

I think at least speaking from my own experience and

Part of the reason when I come back from a big adventure into my day-to-day life and I feel those blues is because I'm not living a lot of the really little things that I felt when I was on that adventure.

I think about community or things like that that maybe were not so much of my everyday.

So it's amazing that you have that...

in your life at home and that you are making adventure in every kind of little way you can.

I know that, like you said, community was a big part of your ride and other people were

being part of it.

I wonder if you could share some stories of, you know, where folks popped up.

I know they like Oklahoma was maybe the first place.

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