Even after hundreds of miles into his two-wheel journey, Kleon Papadimitriou says he still wasn’t sure he’d make it home, CNN reports.
The 20-year-old Greek college student had been stuck in Scotland, where he studied, with no way to return to Athens while flights were canceled due to the pandemic.
So he decided to bike the nearly 2,175-mile route instead.
“It’s just now dawning on me how big of an achievement this was,” he says of his 48-day journey. “And I did learn a lot of things about myself, about my limits, about my strengths and my weaknesses. And I’d say I really hope that the trip inspired at least one more person to go out of their comfort zone and try something new, something big”.
Read the full report here.
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