A bike journey from Arctic to Antarctica...or around the world?
When I was a kid, I was always curious about what kind of life people are living on the other side of the world. Born in an poor family, I hadn't had a chance to travel aboard until I was 26. The first time I went abroad the destination was Japan in 2007. To better understand the culture of Japan and see details, I decided to travel around Japan with bicycle. Soon, I was hooked on the feeling of slow-passe travelling, which probably only by bicycle can enjoy. Then in 2010, I resolved to bike from Xiamen to Tibet. And this time I am going to cross America from Arctic to Antarctica with my old bicycle, or even around the world if I have enough money after I arrive in Brasil.
Blogging in English
After I decided to travel around Japan, an ideal came to my mind that it would be a good ideal to write diary while I am travelling. Human being's memorizing ability is far from perfect. Memory will fade as time goes by. I don't want to leave nothing after the journey is over, so I started to write diary in Chinese from the first day of my journey. I also think that it is unsafe if I just wrote my diary in a notebook, or stored in my own laptop. So I put it on Google, which I think that probably every word I write will never disappear unless a gigantic meteoroid or a global scale solar storm hit the earth.
2 weeks after my journey began, I found my Chinese writing ability had improved dramatically, and 6 months later when my journey ended, lots of my blog followers told me my article is so beautiful that they think I can write a book(perhaps they are just being polite though). This is one of the reasons why I started to blog in English.(Trying to make money from Google Adsense is also one of the reasons.) BUT I don't know if it is too ambitious to write diary in three languages(Chinese, English and Japanese) everyday after riding 50 mile per day in average. If it doesn't work, I will just keep the articles short. If it still doesn't work, then I will just write in Chinese, and in English when possible.
PS: English is not my first language, you may find plenty of grammatical mistakes, incorrect usages of vocabularies or something offensive...etc. Any advice will be appreciated.

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