An old dream becoming reality

Since I'm 16 years old, a lot of good pictures from South-America appears to me, as an invitation to go head to this cape.

This aspirations became a project that I never gave up. It became an objective and a dream : to reach the country of Ecuador by any way but not by plane. I don't mind about taking plane, but I don't want to fly over many curiosities that I could discover going by earth way, as riding my bike.

So since I'm living in Vancouver, BC, I saw the opportunity to reach Ecuador by bike, following the West Coast of U.S.A, Mexico, Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Panama, Columbia, Ecuador.

In order to add a kind of warming up, I'm going to start from Whitehorse, Yukon, after spending the month of August by woofing in a Canadian family.

So I plan to start around first September, and let's see how long it's gone take, may be 10 months ?

Here are 4 pictures of my first travel by bike, in Lapland, 2010. With a friend from Helsinki, we started in Kolari, Finland going by Kilpisjarvi, we went until Tromso, Norway.
And at the bottom, the map with the itinerary we followed.