Jinji Sadan

Another country, another continents and my last one…

I landed in the city of Dunedin in the south island after really long flight that was delayed for 4 hours and I already thought that It will be faster to go on a peddle boat… a funny story was when in the connection flight the guys moved something in the the box of the bike and the horn of Emuna was beeping (it sound like a car alarm) and they new zealandres thought more of the detraction of a bomb that about to explode so they called me in the speakers of the airport:”roei sadan come immediately to see whats going on with your box!”.

So I walk to them and they gave me a vast and we run toghter on the runway to “deactivated” the bomb…

after 5 years I meet a good friend\family of main, ran shapira, and the meeting was really great, ran living here in this amazing place and after all the stories and the photos I was happy to see what it all about and he helped me to just acclimatized to the idea that I am now in lord of the rings land.

great time with Ran

We climbed the steepest street in the world and we most of the time just enjoy life.

For me it is time to go, I feel the butterflies in my stomach before starting the another continent, we looked at maps and planed the next 2 months route but maps are only maps and I am the one that need to make the maps a reality.

It was hard to break again from a good friend but I know that we will meet in 6 months in Israel…

working on my tan with new friends in new zealand

a Israeli guy that wanted to cycle in new zealand contacted me I after I learned him (a journey on the road its like a relationship and you don’t want to start something with the wrong person ) I sensed that we have to chemistry together so we started to cycle together and to see new zealand in a share view.

This country is very calm and every where you look you see the green hills with the white dots (ship) on them.

like in every new continent I am still thinking about the last one and every thing look so different then asia and china…

I have rust on my body but after a 5 days on the road I fell strong again and my body feel relaxed when he is working all the day and he gets his amount of adrenalin the he used to have in the last years.

Some say that it like drugs but at list its good drugs.

I knew that new cycle in new zealand will not push my phisical limits but I was surprise to to climb a short but steep climb, that took us 3 hours and to see that this is the highest pass in new zealand … I hope that it will not always feel like a vacation and we will earn our rest in the night.

after the pass

etamar is new to the world of cycling in the world(he did many mountain cycling in Israel) so he got many things to learn but he got the right attitude of wanted to learn and to be more efficient on the road.

the chef -Etamar

We cycled on a cycling rout “the otago rail train route” and every day we camping and enjoying each other cooking and the Israeli coffee in the morning and maybe its because that I cycled in china where I don’t have no one to share the view and the thought of the road I was so happy to be with a friend that can give another points to your view.

The land is so beautiful and IF the weather is with you its a heaven for cyclists but if its raining hard it more feel like a hell on a bike but together hell its a little less harder to cross.

touching the sky

With the help to the local Israeli embassy a local news paper contact me and we did we meet. There is riots all over the world but her in new zealand I found myself in the FRONT page on the new paper, a billion ship cant go wrong…

billion ship cant go wrong

there is more to write but we will keep to the future I just want to keep on going and to create more smiles in the world.

world hold on

Until next time

lord of the rim

graymouth

south island

new zealand

the world

Every one had his “mentor” a man\woman that challenge your mind and push you to the unknown road.

Many people help me to dream with open eyes and I remember it, and I would like to write in this post about a “special” one.

Mocha yishay , I first meet mocha 5 years ago when I just start to train myself to the journey that I didn’t know (yet) if I was capable of cycle around the world and my knowledge of bike repairing was as good as my mom and mocha was the first one that fixed my flat tire in his bike shop in north of Israel.

I don’t really liked the way that most of the “Lycra” cyclists think of you if you not a veteran like them they gave me the feeling that they are better then me because they have a nicer frame or better watch and that way mocha got my heart from the first flat tire.

He gave me the feeling that its OK not knowing much and bike mechanics its not that complicated.

Its OK to do mistakes if you learn from them.

After couple of times and free lesions I started to ride every week from my home to his bike shop, 108km from my door to his door and to my school. Mocha didn’t wanted to put to much info to my head only kept the basics that I need to know for going around the world.

There is no Israeli that did what I am doing and mocha never question my dream.

He open his house and I meet all the amazing family and felt like its my home.it wasnt at all about a bike lesion it was more life lesions.

eating good before going to the road

He help me to selected “emuna” and we learn about her together.

Its been 3 and a half years and now he is waiting for me in the airport in Melbourne so I was really excited to see him and to know that I am in good hand before starting my 6^th continent.

Before that the custom people in Australia ask me about the dirt on my bike and I told them from where I came so they let me go without too much problems.

The yishay family moved to Australia and it was amazing to see how the children grow up when I was crossing the world, it was jinji festival for some days and I felt great from all this “home made” love .

we took “Emuna” to mocha bike shop and he fixed and changed every thing that needed change and I started to acclimatized to the “western” life style and I was surprise to see that every one can understand me and not every one is chines around me… and more important is that there is warm sun and I can feel my toes all the day…

we did some sightseeing in Melbourne and I was surprise how beautiful is this city. For a week I went with mocha to the bike shop and we spend good time together , many stories and many loughs while I was planing my rout in Australia and new zeal and.

good friends in melbourne

For a week I had a “normal” day life, I woke up in the same time of the day and went to the same place to “work” and then going back home to eat and sleep and then another day came.

It was hard for me to do this and I know that it will be harder to live like this after this journey but this is a challenge that I need to face it and sooner or later I will finish this dream and then what?

"what to do?"

This is a question that every one asking me this days and I answer that I don’t know which dream will choose me right now but lets see first how I deal with this challenging continents and then will see.

First write a the book before you will built book shelf for your books no?

Yotam with a new friend

We did small cycling in this green city to get some rust from my body and mind before I took the flight to new zealand. I know that I will meet the yishay family soon when I will be back after crossing the desert in Australia and its always nice to know that people that you really love are waiting for you in the end it give you power that will help me in the future.

This is what a true friend is all about:

he bring you back to your past and also pushing you to the future.

brothers on wheels