Big Steps Foward For Amputees
by Robert A. Hamilton , FDA

David S. Barr of Bodfish, Calif., took an 80,000-mile motorcycle trip that spanned North and South America, Europe, Asia, and Africa.

"Only 70 people have ever done anything like it before," Barr said. "There've been more people in outer space than have made this trip."

What makes it more extraordinary is that Barr, 41, is a double amputee. Fighting in Angola in 1981, he lost one leg above the knee and the other below the knee. But that hasn't kept him from riding a two-wheel 1972 Harley Davidson and writing a book about his around-the-world motorcycle trip.

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