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Alaskan Moonlight
14,000 miles around North America by bicycle

by Eric Matthes
  

The Route  

    "It all started with a phone call and a dog-eared, coverless copy of the Rand McNally Road Atlas."  
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What is Alaskan Moonlight?

When many people think of a long bicycle trip, they think of numbers. "How long was the trip? How fast did you go most of the time? How much did your bike weigh?" These questions might be interesting to other cyclists, but the real questions are much more interesting. "When does traveling by bicycle become a lifestyle, rather than a trip? What do you learn from living on the edge of society for over a year? What is it like to live outside for an entire cycle of seasons?"

Alaskan Moonlight answers these real questions. Traveling by bicycle becomes a lifestyle when it is all you do, and it is all you will do until your travel leads you to something else. You learn the simplest truths in this lifestyle, because they become so obvious. You learn more clearly than anywhere else, what is real in society and what is meaningless.

 


 
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