Levi Bridges has cycled across Asia and Europe, walked across Spain, and hiked mountains on four continents. Born and raised on a farm along the rocky coast of Maine instilled Bridges with a love of the outdoors and an irrepressible desire to know everything about the world beyond. In recent years, Bridges returned home to the Maine coast where he spent his youth and taken up a love of sea kayak touring. This summer, he plans to kayak as much of the Maine Island Trail, a system of campsites on designated Maine islands, as possible.
A graduate from Alfred University in Alfred, New York, he holds a BA in English and Spanish Literature. In recent years Bridges has worked as a teacher, house painter, deckhand on a cargo ship, social worker, and freelance writer. He is a regular columnist for the Bangor Daily News in Bangor, Maine and his writing has been featured frequently in both foreign and U.S. publications such as Inside Mexico, Russian Life Magazine, and the North American Congress on Latin America. He is currently at work on a book about his experiences on the 9,500 mile bicycle journey he completed with friend, Ellery Althaus, from the Pacific coast of Asia in Vladivostok, Russia to the Atlantic Coast in Porto, Portugal in 2009.
This fall, he will be packing up again and moving to the island nation of Indonesia to teach at a small school for children. While there, he hopes to continue exploring the islands of Southeast Asia in his Necky Chatham 17.
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