FREE SPIRIT - FROM VANCOUVER TO PATAGONIA BY BIKE
There are those who are born to die and others who are born to tell a story, leave a legacy and forge a path.
This is Martjin Doolard, a Dutch traveler/photographer/graphic designer who took some time out of his day to sit down and talk to the Cloud Ten team about his feat, while posing with some pieces from the new shirt collection next to his bike.
Martjin is one of the few people in the world who took on the challenge of traveling by bicycle from Vancouver, Canada to Patagonia, Argentina. 
Photo taken by J onny Bautista
There are those who are born to die and others who are born to tell a story, leave a legacy and forge a path.
This is Martjin Doolard, a Dutch traveler/photographer/graphic designer who took some time out of his day to sit down and talk to the Cloud Ten team about his feat, while posing with some pieces from the new shirt collection next to his bike.
Martjin is one of the few people in the world who took on the challenge of traveling by bicycle from Vancouver, Canada to Patagonia, Argentina.
The reason?
On April 16, 2015, Martjin left his native Holland on a bicycle in order to leave his comfort zone, venture into the unknown and determined to live each day completely different from the previous one. The result was arriving in Singapore a year later with a book written and, as if that were not enough, a film produced which he decided to call “One Year on a Bike” (you can buy both the film and the book at the following links: book , film ) Despite being tired, Martjin only had one thought in his head which was the main motivator of this new adventure.
“The more you travel, the more you realize how little you have seen”
So he packed his backpack, his bike and took a plane to Vancouver where he began to pedal south, crossing parts of Canada, the United States and Mexico, there he encountered the biggest obstacle of the trip, his bicycle, his only means of transportation and protagonist of the trip was stolen, being forced to stay 3 months in the country. But instead of sitting back with his arms crossed, he took advantage of the time to make friends, get to know the depths of DF and take photos of people in the daily life of the capital, which he admits is another of his great passions, in addition he took advantage of the recognition that his first film had generated to get a sponsor for his new bike.
Photo taken from the blog Espiritu Libre
And so he continued through Central America until he reached Panama, the border with Colombia, where he was forced to take a plane with his bicycle to fly over the impenetrable Darien jungle and go directly to Bogota, where we were able to contact him for a long chat about the traveler's mentality, "Americanness," and for him to share some stories of his adventure while we walked the streets of Candelaria looking for good places to take photos of the new shirt collection.
Martjin will remain in Bogotá possibly until the end of September before starting to pedal south into Ecuadorian territory, but he admits that he is not interested in committing to a date, as he has shown with his story, life is not about following a schedule but about following your instinct and responding to the signals that it gives you. So everything depends on what new places he finds and what friends he makes.
If you want to follow Martjin's story closely, you can find him on Instagram:
Photo taken by Jonny Bautista