Cycling for Suicide Prevention

A Bike Ride Around Spain and Portugal
to Raise Awareness of Causes of Youth Suicide

 

Friendly guys In Buenos Aires airport when I checked in.
Elena - Really nice person. We talked for hours after the flight from Argentina. She lives Argentina now but is from Vigo Spain.
Edificio Espana - A historic building in Madrid. Now owned by Chinese.
Matthias and Yazzy - from Sweden and Honduras. Met in Madrd and went to Retiro Park and Crystal Palace together. Really interested in helping he book of letters from suicidal teens.
I bought the little red folding bike at Corte Ingles in the Puerta del Sol. The next day I rode it from Sol to the Charmartin train station. Here is my first picture of the bike, Inside a cafe in the station.
Quatro Postes, Avila, Spain
Where I slept first night. I found a lot of hay bales and stacked them up to make a nice little house outside Avila.
San Pedro de Arroyo
Muņogrande
Looking back at Salamanca
Getting cloeer to Portugal

Suicide Stories

John, the intern at Magnolia hostel in Porto, Portugal said a friend of hise killed himself soon after he found out his girlfriend had been having a relationship with someone else for over a year.

John said he was a really good guy. As I think back I can't remember anyone saying that someone who killed themself was a really mean person.