Cool. Very brave of her. I'm glad she was able to pursue this, many of us, myself included, post pone adventures like this and we miss out on events of a lifetime! Although I don't regret my decisions I've made, I do wish I took advantage of my youth and made more time to see some of our country on two wheels.
Way cool! A friend of mine has ridden the entire American continent, she will ride another continent next and she has plans to ride across the globe eventually. I follow her, and a guy from Spain as they travel on facebook.
Somehow, thrashing a small single-cylinder overloaded bike through several continents and riding in countries where wimmin aren't respected and frequently victimized, it's unlikely the trip will work out as she hopes. She has little chance of success unless she studied r5iders blogs or books who've done the round-the-world trip. "Jupiter's Travels," for example.
Good to see and I wish her well on her journey. I travel a fair bit for work. I've had few problems with people. You plan your trip, you assess the risks and you adapt your plans to mitigate the risk. It's easy to forget that people are people wherever you go. We nearly all want the same things. Safety, family, a job, a place to live, a future for our kids. Human beings are mostly pretty nice and some of the most welcoming and hospitable are also often some of the poorest. This young woman is obviously aware of the risks for a woman travelling in that part of the world and is proactively mitigating them. Most people won't want to hurt her, most will wish her well and help her on her way if they can. The ones who might be offended by what she's doing and wish to hurt her will mostly never imagine that the figure on the bike riding past could possibly be a woman. We tend to be blinded by our own prejudices. I think she's right, the biggest hazard she has to deal with is the same one that we have to deal with. Traffic !!! For the rest, she will certainly be keeping her wits about her and paying close attention to her surroundings.
