Fascinated by German Heinz Stucke who continues the world's best bicycle trip from 22 years old to 50 years

Hello,Takuya Sudo @ circle around the world bicycle @ Charridermanis. In order to survive, it is a one - time life that I know. I am happy if I get up at some event after death, but I can not count on honoring that I have not finalized. That is why I have no choice but to live a given time. I have a German who bicycled all of that one - time - only life. That person famous among the world's charidersHeinz StuckeI am continuing my bicycle trip from age 22. Heinz stayed at Windhoek, the capital of Namibia. I was fascinated by the figure that has continued traveling even now at 72 years old.

Heinz was 72 years old born in 1940. Mr. Masahiko Tsugawa, Mr. Ru Riko Asaoka, Mrs. DeVi, Keiki Shigeta, celebrities of the same age are Mr. Masahiko Tsugawa, Mr. Keiki Shimoda, but the Beatles, John Lennon, was born in 1940. And also director Sadaharu Oga of professional baseball. If you can compare Heinz in professional baseball, Wang who continues to strike at the bat as it is now 72 years old. There are no age restrictions in Charrida, but even now when I turned 72, I stayed in a sleeping bag with a tent in my backpacker inn. The legs are muscles of muscles and the bicycle is also fast.

In 1962, Mr. Heinz departed from Germany of his mother country at the age of 22 and continued his journey to the present of 72 years old. The total mileage so far has been bicycling around the world with about 600,000 km (15 laps of the earth), visiting countries in 195 countries and 73 areas ... .... Japan also ran across Hokkaido and Okinawa. Rough traveling has ended a few years ago, and now I change to a folding small car and I'm traveling around unreached areas using public transport. Last year, I bought Indonesia's southern Sudan, and in 2010, the Ogasawara Islands in Japan also visited.

When I joined a Polish charidar in Scandinavia, he became talked about, "Do you know Heinz who is traveling by bike for the longest time in the world?" Polish Charrida at that time had a document on which Mr. Heinz was written. That is a legendary person among the world's chariders. That is why I was nervous about how I should talk when I meet my face, but I do not need to worry about that. Heinz does not stop after talking. I was able to listen countless stories during my stay.

Heinz talks to a Turkish rider.


I am traveling the world by bicycle, but I am giving up the place that I can not run with time and money with crossing Canada, Indian longitudinal, Russian crossing, East Coast of Brazil, Madagascar. Even so, there was a trace of Mr. Heinz's rut. Now it is absolutely not possible to run on a bicycle, countries such as Afghanistan, Somalia and Iraq will be fine if you spend 50 years. Heinz san's rut ​​remaining in the whole world, I was tempted to run as much as I wanted.

Heinz who explains the wheel trace by expanding the map. The seal of "●" is the place where I stayed at Christmas that year.


Heinz 's cooking stove that it has been favorite since 1983. It was the same age cooking stove as myself.


While working on a computer early in the morning of one day, Mr. Heinz was preparing something. When asking "Do you go somewhere early in the morning?" "If you go to the nearby gamepark (nature reserve) to see wildlife for a moment", if you were admired that you will not do your best from the morning, "Will you go with us I will be invited. I had a chance to run with Mr. Heinz who is the world's first bicycle traveler, and immediately went out together with me.

Heinz shoots behind taking pictures by stopping.


Currently Heinz uses a folding small diameter car. Even this is quite speedy.


It is approximately 20km from Windhoek city to Daan Viljoen Game Park. You can see wildlife here as a nature reserve.


I found two giraffes.


Heinz heading for Kirin.


Kirin who is running away.


Heinz took a picture of Kirin.


Although I got a lot of herbivorous animals and Matsumete, I do not have a gentle eyes as giraffe.


Kirin, who uses a long neck to eat the high leaves.


It is a composition that Heinz looks over at Kirin who was taken.


There are unpaved roads in the park.


Such a downhill ... ....


Heinz comes down lightly.


It approaches here.


Do not breathe a little, you row by chance.


Looking at the city of Windhoek.


Heinz who looks for wild animals with binoculars.


Two bicycles.


Mr. Heinz was curious, despite being 72 years old, looking for animals with binoculars or putting out any characteristic grass as a photograph. I feel the age is light with the legs rubbing the pedals too. It is a person who has been traveling for 50 years, so I was fresh just looking at the movement. It was an unforgettable day.

I took a picture of two shots.


Mr. Heinz, the world's best bicycle traveler, is hope for those who follow. Because I'm traveling for 50 years, I live in good health. Even if you travel for ten years, you are one quarter of Mr. Heinz, so you can depart from anxiety about something happening on a journey. When I told Mr. Heinz about this thing I would like to tell by all means I was trying to make it a little embarrassing. I'm sure Heinz 's life will be treasured for the future Charrid.

I can not help but appreciate the accident that I could have met Heinz in one round of my own bicycle world. "Travel is my life", Heinz who is 72 years old repeatedly, I would like to have something to convince myself when becoming the same age as him. At that time the remaining time is small. When all of you turned around at the age of 72, did you get any satisfactory items? No matter what you do, time will pass. And I will definitely visit that time.

(Sentence / photo: Takuya S. Narou Charriderman
Cycling around the world for a bicyclehttp://shuutak.com)