Ok so maybe posting a new guest EVERY week was a bit of an optimistic statement. And of course it is not because we don’t have the coolest most interesting people coming through regularly!
Today we are featuring Gregg Bleakney. Below is an excerpt taken from his website about who he is and what he’s been up to.
Gregg Bleakney was raised on an island in Washington State’s Puget Sound. He went to the University of Oregon on a Track and Field scholarship. There, he studied sports psychology and became a two-time All-American in the triple jump in 1997/1998.
In July of 2005, Gregg left his career in information technology, sold nearly everything he owned (house, fancy car, furniture, etc.) and rode his bicycle from northern Alaska to the southern tip of South America. He pedaled 18,500 miles over twenty-two months and raised $50,000 for the American Diabetes Association. Along the way, he was electrocuted by a lightning bolt and attacked by machete bandits. He also discovered a planet and people that demonstrated their magic time and time again.
In Santa Barbara, CA a slick camera salesman talked him into spending two-months of his trip’s budget on a SLR camera. He started making pictures and writing for the first time. Those pictures and words have found their way into a coffee table book, “Bicycle Diaries”—it is being packaged for publication by Rich Clarkson and Associates. Since his bicycle trip, Gregg has developed the unique ability to deliver strong feature length writing and fine photography packages to his clients.
Gregg speaks English, Spanish and needs to brush-up on his Portuguese.
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Good luck on all your future adventures Gregg and thanks for stopping by the hostel!