5 life lessons learned from long-distance bicycle travel

During the summer of 2015, I spent four months cycling across sub-Saharan Africa with a friend of mine. These are some bullet points I wrote in my diary throughout the trip. Most of them relate to hills, but I think you could apply them to almost every situation you find yourself in on this grand journey called life…

1. There will always be another hill to climb.

2. Hills are never as a big as you think they are going to be once you start climbing them.

3. You will get through it. Life will get better (and worse). It always does.

4. When you see that unclimbable hill in the distance, remember all the identical ones behind you that you already defeated. You WILL climb that hill so stop worrying about it.

5. If unsure what to do, the best thing you can do is something. Doing nothing solves nothing.

You’re welcome.