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My Story. My Mission.
Welcome and thanks for stopping by. On November 12, 2019 I started a 3 year, 50,000+/- kilometer bike ride in St John’s Newfoundland.
This amazing and epic adventure has me crossing Canada east to west during the winter of 2019/20 and then on my way to the bottom of Argentina.
Before starting this ride I anticipated the first 6 months during the winter to be a miserable and horrible experience. Every minute and every mile would simply suck. Either I was strong enough to bike and camp during the winter or I was not. The ride started out slowly and then some interesting things started to happen. What I have regularly referred to as “the magic.” First it started a little in Newfoundland and then it continued in Nova Scotia and then it really started to grow in Prince Edward Island. Coming back into Nova Scotia things really took off to a point that has had me speechless at times. The “magic” that I am referring to is the magic of generosity experienced from the locals in virtually every town I stopped in.
Complete strangers were hosting me and other complete strangers were giving me a few bucks here and there. Restaurants were giving me complimentary meals and I was being recognized almost everywhere I went (thanks to traditional and social media). The experiences were so amazing and moving that I ended up adding 1,300 km’s to my PEI and Nova Scotia route to simply expose myself to the locals. To see what was waiting for me around the next corner.
This is a ride that I have been planning and working very hard towards (and at the same time been constantly distracted from) since the end of 2011. The working, planning and dreaming began immediately after my first and life changing 6,500 km bike ride through western and northern Canada in 2011.
Part of the motivation behind my November 12 start date is to pedal a bike across Canada during a Canadian winter. In my world this is perhaps the greatest challenge that I can come up with that would possibly push me to the point of failure. I have to believe that at my age that some of my best years are still ahead of me. And this seems like the my way to prove this to myself. To push and challenge yourself to your possible limit in my mid years will give me my courage for the future.
“May your greatest dreams and goals be ahead of you; not behind you.”

This 50,000 km bike ride is an adventure that but a small handful of people on this planet would ever attempt.
An even smaller handful would ever attempt to start such a bike ride in during a Canadian winter.
During my ride I will experience different cultures and languages, extreme landscapes, extreme weather, extreme isolation and extreme beauty and wonder. I will experience risk, adventure and danger unlike ever before in my life. I will be required to push everything that I am to its limits. The success or failure of this ride will ultimately be in my own and Gods hands.
My hope is to share my experiences with as many people possible via social media, blogs, photos and video. So please stop by again and again for updates. Your well wishes and support will always be appreciated.
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Arie Hoogerbrugge – AKA Safari Arie

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We just released our Prairie to Badlands documentary video
We just released our Prairie to Badlands documentary video from when I biked from Manitoba to Calgary last year. Check out the video HERE
10 Reasons Why Bike Touring Is The Best Way To Travel
I reached out to a online magazine in Europe called Pebbles Magazine. They asked me to do a article for them about bike touring. This the first magazine article I ever wrote. You can read it...
For every new YouTube Subscriber I am planting a tree
For the foreseeable future for every new YouTube Subscriber I will plant a tree. Please consider planting trees yourself at this LINK
Current City:
Scotland Halfmoon, Belize (HOME)
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No Where Soon
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Recent Blogs:
Belize Part 4 (Dec 5 to 9)
December 5 Life in the jungle: This morning I got 100% of my coconut field cleaned except for a few small/medium trees that I need a chainsaw for. The next job is to start cleaning the far [new]...
Belize Part 3 (Dec 1 to 4)
December 1 Life in the jungle: I started my morning chopping the coconut field as usual. I got a lot of trees de-vined. I seen the black tail of large snake in some vegetation. At first, I...
Belize Part 2 (Nov 27 to 30)
On November 25th I arrived home after biking for over 2 years on the road to get here. November 27 Life in the jungle: Perfect weather today. I got an early start and started de-vining my coconut...
Recent Friends & Hosts:
Mario Fernando A Garcia
While in Vicente Guerrero I was messaged by someone interested in hosting me in Aguascalientes. The next day I received a message from Mario about hosting me in the same city. I replied to Mario...
Iohan Gueorguiev
On September 17th I woke up to a message from my Aunt Henny that Iohan Gueorguiev was dead. Iohan was the bike tourer/bikepacker that inspired me that biking through a Canadian winter was...
Paty De Anda
Through a random stop at a Fresnillo bike shop called Rocha bike shop I was found a host upon my arrival in Zacatecas. Paty would be able to offer me an empty lower floor apartment. There was so...
Environment and Tree Planting
My Environmental Manifesto
If we claim to be serious about the environment doesn't a personal environmental manifesto make sense? Are the poles melting? Is climate change natural or man-made? Actually we need to perhaps be...
What does my bike ride have to do with my passion to have the planet covered in trees?
That's a real good question and in many ways I would say nothing. That being said if there is a away to connect the two dreams and goals I will figure out how along the way. I guess the bike ride...
How I plan to save the planet
Little did I know back in grade 9 the first small seeds of my greatest passion were being planted. No pun intended but from all the way back then a secret passion that I was not even aware of was...
