Senior Rides Bike From Alaska To Idaho; Raises Disease Awareness

For motorcyclists, there's nothing better than a summer road trip. One Alaskan man recently biked over 2,000 miles to help raise awareness for a parasitic disease and made a much-deserved stop in central Idaho.

Many motorcycle enthusiasts are enjoying the final days of summer by taking lengthy road trips across the United States. Cross-country trips are common and usually take riders between two and three weeks totaling more than 4,000 miles. A rider from Alaska recently shared his adventure from his home state to the Gem State and spent some time camping in Salmon, Idaho.

We wish him a safe ride and commend him for raising awareness of this disease.

From Juneau, Alaska to Salmon, Idaho, is approximately 2,100 miles. It's a 40-plus hour trip at least, and that's considered making "good time." The Alaska Marine Highway would have been the route this man took from Juneau into Canada. From the Idaho / Canadian border to Salmon is another 400 miles, so not every rider is seasoned enough to handle such a bike ride.

Get our free mobile app

On the eleventh day of the ride, he made it to the campsite in the Salmon-Challis National Forest, according to his YouTube post from September 15.

The man appears road-weary in the video and describes the adventure as a "very long, flat ride." In the video's description line is "#rideagainstchagas." Chagas is a chronic parasitic infection that affects over six million people, according to thelancet.com.

The rider described Salman as a "good place to stop," so central Idaho is not his target destination. Ohio is also tagged in the YouTube upload, which is another 1,900 miles to the east, so it's possible this man's roundtrip mileage could be over 6,700 miles in total.

We wish him a safe ride and commend him for raising awareness of this disease.