Hi, I'm Ryan, I'm from Nova Scotia, Canada and I'm planning on riding my bike around the world. What exactly does riding a bike around the world look like? Great question! I don't know either! Well I have a bit of an idea but I'll mostly be figuring it out as I go.
Enough people have asked me to do something to be able follow along as I go, so I'll try to document some of the stuff that happens here. I have no idea how often I'll post here or what all I'll even be including, but I'll try to do enough so everyone can follow along well enough. Anyone who knows me knows I don't regularly share much nor do I usually like to either, so this will be new for me.
So what exactly is this trip going to look like? Well, I don't wanna give any definitive answers as I'd like to decide on what I do/where I go as I'm going. I'm starting from home in Nova Scotia, going across Canada and then heading south to start. I have the goal of cycling in all 6 (7 if the opportunity arises) continents. My goal isn't just to cycle around the world, but also to see the world, so the path may be quite round-a-bout at times. The map is a rough idea of what I am thinking at the time that I start this trip (start from 6 and go to 1, I originally planned to do this trip starting in Europe and am too lazy to redo the map).
Why am I doing this trip? Well there are many reasons for that, not just one. I've always wanted to see many different parts of the world. I'd like to see the different cultures of the world and the different ways that people live. I'm also usually happier when I'm outdoors and I'm gonna be outdoors almost permanently. Also I'm trying to figure out what I'm doing with/want from my life. My mental health completely fell apart during the pandemic (and boy did it need to) and I lost my passion for physics during this. Since then, while I've gotten to a much better place mentally, I have no idea what I wanna do, where I wanna be or what I want from life, when I used to feel like I kind of had answers to these in the past. I expect I'm gonna be a different person by the end of the journey and hope I find answers along the way.
Alright enough about me (though really I guess this whole site is about me, huh), I hope you get something out of my blog and something about it makes your day a bit better. See you on the road!