I have always been something of an adventurer having traveled far and wide over a number of years and have been a keen cyclist – off and on – for much of that time.
It was with the thought of my retirement looming that I decided I needed to have an epic adventure to look forward to and so the thoughts of cycling the Great Divide began to percolate,
I wasn’t certain that I was actually fit enough for it or that my knees or hips would hold up, but I was determined to give it a go!!
Here followed months and months of research – which bike, what clothing, which bag, what food should I take?? This was in itself an epic task – of which my wife got extremely fed up !!!
The culmination of my efforts was packing my biking worldly possessions in a huge cardboard box and flying out to the USA at the end of July 2018. The rest, as they say, is history and to be found within my 2018 The Great Divide blog.
It’s now 2019 and another retirement date has come and gone, but the urge to repeat the Divide Experience hasn’t gone away, so here I am, planning my next epic off road adventure – The Wild West Route. Flights are booked, the bike’s been serviced, just the packing to do (a lot less equipment than last time!!!!)
John's Epic Cycle Adventures 