This is Mike. Mike quit his job last May and decided to go on an adventure. He’s nearly 30,000 miles in, traveling from Virginia to Florida to Alaska and everywhere in between, and he’s doing it all on – a Honda Ruckus.

You’re familiar with the Ruckus. It’s the de facto pit bike and great for running around town, with a single-cylinder 49cc engine mated to a CVT. It gets over 100 MPG, parts are cheap, and working on it is ridiculously easy. It’s the absolute antithesis of the bloated, over-endowed ADV bikes of the world, which makes it a wonderful, nutty thing to take on the road. And Mike is exactly that right breed of nutty.

He started in Virginia, played around in the Appalacian Mountains, then headed south to Florida where he hit the southern-most buoy in Key West. Then he set his GPS to Alaska.

Mike travels light, with just enough stuff and spares to fix what needs fixing and camp, cook, and keep warm. He’s been at it for nearly a year when met up with him, and here’s the result: