Introduction to my 80 Year as I Travel the World

August 25, 2021

By Odyssey

Mallorca Bike Tour 2021

My name is Robert Fletcher

Thank you for clicking on my site.

The photo shows me celebrating my 79th birthday and starting on my way to my 80th, hence the name of my site.

I will be adding some of my daily activities, adventures, and discussions about bicycles and life. You can look forward to reading and viewing the three adventures that I have already lined up. The three adventures are a solo bike ride in Mallorca in two weeks, a 21-day bike tour of Costa Rica in February, and, finally, a long bike ride from Alaska to Panama City next summer. Besides these three trips, I will be going to Santa Marta Island in Colombia this coming December.

The first thing is, why would you want to follow a 79-year-old blogger. Therefore, with hesitancy, I am posting a condensed vita of my travels and adventures in the hope that you will continue to follow along as I progress through the next decade.

My partial adventure and cycling curriculum vitae is as follows

Bike packed southern England and France during the summer of 1972
Ran five marathons with my fastest time of 3:28:29.
Completed three Olympic size triathlons
Visited more than 100 countries
Volunteered at a rhinoceros sanctuary in Botswana in 2013
Rode in over 20 countries
Climbed Kilimanjaro in December 2014 and was the second oldest to do that climb that month
Also climbed Mount Fuji and Table Mountain in Cape Town.
Walked the 800 km of the French Camino de Santiago
Hiked through (120k) the Riff Valley and across Maasai land in Kenya
Rode the 950 km Ruta Plata Camino de Santiago solo
Cycled from Anchorage, Alaska to Mexico City in 2015 in about four months and 10400 km
Rode from Quebec City to New Orleans in two months and nearly 4200 km
Cycled from Agra India to the bottom of India in two months and about 4200 km
Rode from Amsterdam to Rome in one month and about 3000km
Cycled the Garden Route in South Africa, 18 days and 1500 km
Rode from Melbourne to the Gold Coast in Australia in one month and nearly 3000 km
I have completed numerous one and two-week trips, both solo and with groups in various countries.
I have organized bike tours in Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Canada, and Spain. Covid prevented the Spanish trip from taking place.
Some articles were published about me.