Jinji Sadan

My life is not very boring, that’s I know for years but the last week was something that challenged all my limits  in a good way…

Many people contact me and ask me how can I afford this journey , who is paying for my pasta and rice???

before getting the plan to Europe

I have to say that meeting with sponsors is harder then you think even for this journey.

I can tell you that after 3 years in the road this journey is the biggest journey that ever done buy Israeli( pleas don’t think that I want to show off or need the competition with others in order to move my self) I am humble man but this journey is big and I have to give him all the respect that he deserved.

I knew that from the beginning but it was hard to get other people to believe in my dream and more important believe in me..

i can tell you that this journey cost money that I cant afford in this time of my life , after finish Africa and before the Europe I went to Israel for a short visit to and I was happy and honored to meet the president of eden group in Israel and Europe, mr raanan zilberman, and show him my journey with photos and numbers but the most important for me is to show him myself , my heart and my eyes and that more important then anything.

Me and Eden (mey eden in Hebrew) are long time friends and I needed to use my contacts and luck to meet Raanan.

In zen teaching they say:

“when the student is ready the teacher will come”

with my friend Raanan Zilberman

And after 3 continents I was ready for them to come to my journey and also to dream with open eyes.

Raanan

Eden support me in this journey and I was envited buy raanan to come to Barcelona to meet all the Managing Director  of the company in Europe and Israel, to showed them what I am doing.

I was in the middle of no where in the desert of china and took 3 long flights (with a short visit in Beijing meeting guy from the embassy of Israel and my friend noga).

with noga in Beijing

After long way I got to Barcelona my favorite city in the world and for 3 days was still in shock from this fast change, one night I am in my tent in a sand storm and the other night I am sleeping in 4 stars hotel…

i was happy to see the faces behind my back wind and to give them my thanks and my dreams, I had a lecture to present our journey ,that’s not the first or last time that I am talking with a big crowd but this time it was different because of this people I am her and that why my heart pulse was like when I climb the high Andy’s mountains…

meet the wind behind my back

we had good time , they come to work but I had time to rest and enjoy this amazing city, I went to see Barcelona football club in a match and we went to see the city and eat as good as Barcelona can be.

with orit and my man in Barcelona:ANTONIO ALARCON

One night we went to a club and I was in shock to see one of my favorite athlete  in the world:

Kobe Bryant !!!

I went to him and told him how I respect his game, Raanan came to shack his hand and then he ask him if he knows Roei Sadan that cycling around the world…

Kobe gave respect for the 50000km on the road and I was in the sky….

Luck is not enough in life, you have to know what you do with it.

A day later everyone went back to his country and I stay for another night and was amazed buy the present that Raanan gave me:

A amazing ticket to the basketball game of Barcelona and LA Lakers!

I DONT NEED TO TELL YOU WHO IS THIS GUY...

It’s a small dream of me to see the Lakers in a game and now another dream come true…

The breakup from my friends was hard but I knew that they are with me all the way back to Israel.

with eyal carmi in la rambla

Right know I am in Rome for doing a new visa to china and get ready to the future.

It easy to come from no where to Barcelona and Rome but its hard to get back to the talamakan desert… its another challenge in a challenging life.

And don’t think that I am complaining about it ha!

I am lucky to have Eden by my side and they are right.

my good friend: RONI NAFTALI

Soon I will be back to the bike and start again in the exactly place that I stop cycle, I have many kilometers a had of so I need to be focused on that.

Ps

In this blog I am give you my stories, my mistakes, good or bad I give you my heart and my thoughts and if you think that I did this post because I need to do a commercial  for Eden you are wrong(I didn’t even tell you what they do..) but I have to clear something here:

Because of Eden I am alone but not lonely  and you can enjoy and learn from my journey ,

if you still think that I am doing a commercial her I am inviting you to eat my dust…

Luck is not enough it’s what you do with it.

I came from love and I will ride  with love.

Roei “jinji” sadan

ROME

Italy

Soon back in china

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Crossing to France was really confusing for me, no check in the border and you are in a new country in a new language and new culture.

Everything is so different from Spain to France and I can’t believe that I got her and to start to understand the different way of life.

The truth is that I was sad to leave Spain I got many friends and good memories from there but I know that I will be back.

It weather now in Europe is really cold and the first days were something to talk about…

In the first night in France it was a snow storm and I wake up to see my tent in 20 cm of snow it took me 1 hour to pack everything and from the first minutes out from the tent I lost the sense in the fingers.

In this weather you don’t see people out in the streets or in the road, people look at me in a strange look from their car like saying:

“Who is this stupid guy that cycling outside in this freezing days?”

brrr...

Cycling in snow is always hard and dangers because of the ice on the roads.

In the city of Toulouse I was really happy to meet my friend Hugo (the French canal) that cycled with me in the magic mountains of Peru, we stayed with his amazing friends and talk about the crazy days in the past. When I am thinking about that I cycled with this guy more than one year ago and now I meet him in his country I think about the size of my journey sometimes it’s too big to understand it.

I also meet good people in the Jewish community in Toulouse and they were really warm and nice.

From Toulouse I had really crazy week to cross the Alps to Grenoble and I could see why people say that France is amazing place to cycle.

The small roads are really nice and in good conditions people are nice but don’t know English and the scenery is like cycling in paint…

The weather was ok (some times it wasn’t snowing) but the nights in the tent were really cold and I could not have good sleep.

The roads are full with nice little villages and each of them has a character of his own. I am cycling I think about that I will come her one day with my friends and cycle with them this roads because it’s pretty easy and in the season its really warm with the sun shining on your face (that’s what I heard…) every night I found I quit place to put the tent and start my day again in the morning.

In one of the climbs i was sorry to see (or to hear) that my rear wheel break but it was the time to die after crossing the mountains of south America and Africa so it was understanding after all this hard roads…

It wasn’t the first time that my wheel broke the first time was in Peru in a middle of nowhere and I took a 1000km ride to cross to Bolivia to buy a new one and got back to the same place the the rime broke, in Peru its took me time and money and her in Europe it only took me money because that I most of the small cities there is a normal bike store and rims that I can take for a short time until I will find a right one to cycle one it.

The last climb to the alps mountains was really nice ride but in the top of the pass a cloud came and told me:”Roei now the adventure is starting…” so the rest of the day I spend in the rain or snow on my face and I prefer to climb then to go down with the wind that make everything more cold.

Ice on the rocks and frozen lakes were in the view.

The climate really change when I had the descent from the mountains to the valley of Grenoble were I meet more friend, Ariel and Noa, that showing me around and we having good time and I need this rest to recovery mentally and physically.

To talk a little Hebrew with people and nice feelings after trying to make my way in French. We will meet again in Jerusalem when I will do my last kilometers in this journey it sound like a date….

Grenoble is nice city surrounded by mountains and good views.

Europe is easy cycling and I am happy to make it a little harder and to cycle in the winter and if I am her I want to cross the mountains also, I want to earn my pasta and my rest in my way.

In the next week I will cross the mountains to north Italy and I am excited of that.

Will dream and see what’s going to happen my friends.

Love you all

Roei “jinji” Sadan

Grenoble

French alps

Europe

The world