Hello!

About me:

My name is John and I'm from Toronto Canada, I'm planning on a trip from Toronto to Vancouver and then from there will be making a the long trek to Alaska. I will be travelling through the Canadian side to Vancouver, even though it's a longer path. I have friends and family who live in Manitoba and I have friends who live in Alberta. I'm planning on making a detour route down to Seattle from Vancouver because I have some online friends that I wanted to visit while I was out in the west end.

Whether you choose to come with me from Toronto, or meet up with me along the way it doesn't matter to me. Company is company and especially during a long ride it'll be the most helpful experience to have someone by your side when times are rough.

Why I'm going:

As of writing this message I have yet to travel alone outside of North America. I'm planning my first solo trip to Europe backpacking around in January 2015. This is going to be my first adventure alone and it's a scary experience for me. However right now it's one of my goals in my life. Depending on how my experience goes in Europe I had plans on doing a motorcycle adventure. I wasn't exactly sure at first, but I knew it was something I was interested in doing. As I continue to think about the trip I'm falling in love with the idea and I want to do it. I want to do it for myself, and another reason is because I want to do it for someone I fell in love with. This is going to be a huge experience and anyone willing to share the experience is welcome. Not only am I interested in visiting all of the different scenary along the way, but I want to go see the Northern Lights. I also want to reach the end of the world, if that's even possible by bike.

When is the trip?:

The trip isn't going to be for awhile, there's still a lot of things that I need to do to prepare myself. I'm thinking the earliest I will do the trip is leaving Toronto in August 2015. If I don't plan on doing at that time, then I plan on possibly pushing the dates even further back till 2016. There's still a lot of preparation I need to do, financially, mentally, and emotionally (who cares about physically!) I'm not in any rush to go, but I know that right now it's one of my goals that I want to achieve and it's a 1 in a million opportunity for me.

Experience:

This is something I need to be honest and open about. As I mentioned as of writing this I have zero experience travelling alone, but you know what? I'm okay with that, because I have confidence in my ability to stay alive. The really important thing I need to mention though is my motorbike experience, I have none. I have zero knowledge of cars or motorcycles, but that's not to say that I'm going to do this trip blindly. Since it's a goal of mine to go to Alaska, I'm going to put 150% effort into learning and researching everything that I need to do and learn for me to prepare myself for this trip. This is why I said that earliest is "August" because I may not even be ready by then. However I know Summer time would be the most beneficial time to travel through Canada as the roads will be better (I hope?) Definitely having a researching partner for this trip would be perfect because two heads are better than one. Someone who is experienced with motorbikes and can offer suggestions and maintenance tips would be great too. But even if you have no experience like myself, it's a learning experience for the both of us to learn everything and anything that we can.

Please feel free to private message me or post here if this is something you'd be interested in planning out with me. If you have any tips or suggestions please feel free to let me know too! I accept all and every form of tips or suggestions for my trip and a little note as to why it would be a good tip would be awesome too.

Thanks!

John