Backroads: Tom Hale. How a desk worker became a trailblazer in active travel

So we were driving Crossing the Nevada Desert. And the driver uh went off the embankment and we roll the van s couple of times. I felt like we were in a rock tumbler and it was all uh steel tool chests. propane containers. Just imagine all that was going on as we're spidermanning through the air and

Anyway, we came to our rest, went and made it over to the edge of the um Freeway. We're laying there. Side by side. And

Bill, one of the leaders said. Well, I guess that's it for the summer. Welcome to How I Built This, a show about innovators, entrepreneurs, idealists, and the stories behind the movements. Built. Guy Roz and on the show today, how a midnight epiphany led Tom Hale to quit his job and launch Backroads, a bike touring company that grew into one of the largest active travel companies.

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