In 2019 I went on a solo Biketouring trip spanning across Canada, USA, Peru, NZ and Taiwan lasting 10 months.
While obviously the means of transportation was draining both physically and mentally it was amazing to be truly immersed in region I was currently visiting.
In general it was great but if I were to do it again I would go way easier and slower on my bike instead of trying to race it plus I would have shortened the trip to last at most 4 months - after 10th National Park or so I stopped appreciating the location as much because I was comparing it to some other that I saw just a couple of weeks before that and the wow factor was no longer there. Seeing too much on the short span of time is a curse of such a trip imho.
All in all it was great and I’d do it again but slightly differently and definitely not as long.
P.S.
(Finding job in covid after the tour was really hard despite my data science/ml engineering profile.)
In general it was great but if I were to do it again I would go way easier and slower on my bike instead of trying to race it plus I would have shortened the trip to last at most 4 months - after 10th National Park or so I stopped appreciating the location as much because I was comparing it to some other that I saw just a couple of weeks before that and the wow factor was no longer there. Seeing too much on the short span of time is a curse of such a trip imho.
All in all it was great and I’d do it again but slightly differently and definitely not as long.
P.S. (Finding job in covid after the tour was really hard despite my data science/ml engineering profile.)