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Biking Around the World

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I’ve met a couple long-distance bicyclists in my day. An interesting lot, to be sure. I’ve always day dreamed about biking across America (Paul, are you reading this?). Just for kicks.

One time, I had a conversation with this guy Dieter, the owner of a youth hostel in Dawson City, Yukon Territory that I was staying at. Dieter had this world map on his office wall with a thin, black line snaking its way up and down the continents of the earth, ending in that far, far corner of Western Canada. I asked him is those were his travels. “Yep,” he said. “My travels on my bike.”

If you ever find yourself in Dawson City, go say hello to him and stay at his hand-made youth hostel. It’s one of the finest hostels I’ve ever been to. Complete with Yukon-style “showers”, log cabins and super excellent international vibe. Not to mention near 24-hour daylight in the summer. You’d have to be pretty hardy to get up there in winter. Tends to be like 30-below most of the time.

Here’s a photo of Dieter, lookin’ fabulous in 1980 in the mountains of Columbia:

But I’m getting side-tracked. What was I was going to post about was another intrepid traveler, Tim Harvey. I was just reading about Tim, who just completed an entirely human-powered expedition to circumnavigate the planet that took him over two years. So awesome. That’s a photo of Tim at the top of the post. I wanted to share Tim’s story with you because this morning I saw a really inspiring interview with him during his last days on his trek. Unfortunately, I can’t embed the video, but you should really have a look. Click this link to watch it. Super, super stuff.

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    Paul: that guy in the video I just sent you is a penniless hippi if I;ve ever seen one

    me: HAHAHA!

    Paul: "I travelled around the world with man power. Biking, rowing, sailing... it took 900 days"
    he says he did it to convince people to stop driving to school and work
    sounds like I need to do some cross country drive-bys just to make up for his 3 years of not driving

    me: wow, that only makes me want to drive more
    he has not been pulling his weight as far as producing greenhouse gasses goes.

    Paul: maybe we can send him a video of us driving in circles

    me: HAHAHA!
    Yeah
    or, we could send him a video of us parking a car at night and leaving it running
    and then it would show us getting up the next morning, going out to the car (which is still running) and driving to work
    it might have to show that in the middle of the night we go get gas

    Paul: we can say that the car wont start so we just leave it running 24/7

    me: hahaha!
    or we could say that one of the previous cars we owned wouldn't start, so we left it running 24/7
    but this one will start, it's just a habit now

    Paul: haha I love it
 

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