Bike Packing and Hiking Adventure

Clive Seymour Start Date: Apr 28, 2024 - End Date: Aug 27, 2024
  • Japan
  • United States of America

My Travel Story

by: Clive Seymour Start Date: Apr 28, 2024 - End Date: Aug 27, 2024
Hello thanks for having a read of this.  I am planning to go on bike packing from North to South Japan over three months in Autumn. Camping for most of part to keep costs down. Then to go the America straight afterwards to hike the national parks through the winter in the southern states that are below the snow line.

Two years ago unfortunately my sister died young from colon cancer. To take positive from this huge negative in my life I want to make every day count. It has also made me understand life is way too short to put off things to older age – better to do them sooner. With that in mind I am trying to do something I have always dreamed of doing - to bike on my own from Hokkaido to Fukuoka in Japan (and climb Mount Fuji) and to hike through Monument Valley in Utah and the amazing landscape of Arizona and Texas.

The other reason I want to do this is for personal health reasons – Being extremely overweight at the start of the year I was told by doctors I was damaging my own liver with the fat ( sounded to me like I was making myself into Foie Gras! ). This target to bike and hike for six months has motivated me already to loose 5stone ( 32KG) of weight to be in a better position to face this adventure and be able to complete it.

A slight draw back to this plan occurred last month when my bike I was planning on doing this journey was stolen and it has added to the costs of what is already rather expensive adventure which is why I am seeing if any kind generous people would help a little in sponsoring me.

I am no Instragrammer or anything like that but do like to post photos and write about what I have been up on to so friends and family can follow my progress (and so parents know that I am doing ok and still alive!) please follow me on Twitter(X) or Instagram.
  • Japan
  • United States of America