Jinji Sadan

The world is full of surprises and mama nature always give us a reminder how small we are is this world.
You can plan your life years and years and then an earthquake come to shake everything is your life.
Its weird to writ now on my journey, my challenges and dilemmas of my life when people lost there life 100km from me. Many people lost everything that they had, not having a shelter so how can write that I broke my wheel and need to change my tent???

if we will start to complain what the people with hard life will say?

So I will write some and always remember to put some perspective on life.

As you might know I am cycling with great guy Etamar from Israel and together we crossing new zealand. The last 2 weeks was easy, some good climbs and the landscape is always great. It doesn’t matter witch route you take her, you cant go wrong and everywhere that the bike will lead you it will be nice.

Green hills,farms and ship.
We crossed the “big” mountains(more hills) from the west coast to the east coast it the road was amazing, I start to remember the rout #1 in California when we cycled next to the ocean in one side and hills on the other.
The sound (and smell ) of the seals that climbing on the rocks are something that give you smiles on the road.

I am really enjoying Etamar and we have good time, camping and cooking amazing dishes in the wild. Nature is amazing spice to the food and every meal in the wild is much more better then the same dish in the kitchen.

My mom will not believe what I can cook and to think that 3 years ago I eat most of the times instant noodles…
but its all about learning and developing as a human being and as an adventurer.

We were scheduled to be in the city of Christchurch on our way but my schedule in the last part of the journey its not that flexible and I decided to skip it.
When I just got to 57000km on the journey I sound (and felt) a bad sound from the whelk,Bike problems are part of the journey but I don’t like to break the hub of the wheel because its mean that I need to find a someone that he could built a new wheel with my old rim so I thought maybe to get to caristruch because its big but I could push myself and the wheel another 200km and to do that I wellington.

We were 120km from where the earthquake happened and we didn’t feel something.
No buildings were we have been and I found out after I open my phone and heard the messages from my friends in new zealand.
I don’t want to think what have happen if I took the short way and the easy way…
it always better to cycle then standing in the place.

We finished the south island in new zealand and were happy to take the ferry to the city of wellington and to start the north island.

In wellington I suppose to have meeting with the mayor and to work with the embassy but the earthquake changed everything and they have bigger things then me.
6 days after the quake and there is many people still missing and its not look good.
In wellington I meet my friend, Susana, a girl the I meet 2 and half years ago in Peru and we said that one day we will meet again.

with susan, "its small world after all"

I was late in 2 months but she understood the circumstances… she took me and Eta to meet her friends and we had amazing weekend on the coast, full of good music and good loughs with the locals.
Its always better to see a place from the eye of the local then through they eye of the “tourist”
we had amazing time and we might see each other one day, its a small world after all.

And about the broken wheel I fixed it, I just hope its the last one that I changing…
it cost me 300$ (NZ) and its all about the money her.
Its an expensive place and I feel the “hardens ” of new zeland in my wallet then in my mind or my legs.
We will try to make it a little more challenging in the future maybe in the small island in Australia.

Look at me I am complaining that I needed more challenge when I just finish half of an amazing country. And believe me that in one week her on a bike you get enough challenges for a years for the “normal” person.

“if we will complain what the people with hard life will say?”

hope to that we will hear only good news and thank you for the concern of my health.
Love you all

Roei “JINJI” Sadan
wellington
the north island
new zealand

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