Adventure? Excitement? A Jedi craves not these things.

A Jedi may not crave these things, but Fumynori Saito does. He quit his job as a corporate real estate agent at Japan’s prestigious Sumitomo Corp and went on an incredible journey from the very bottom tip of South America to the Tip of North Americaon a 90cc scooter!!!! He made the journey of over 17,400 miles from the southern tip of Argentina to Deadhorse, Alaska, including several detours, in a little over six months. My tip to Saito: next time bring a Vespa GT with you, it would have made the trip a lot more pleasant. Below are a few highlights of his incredible journey taken from an article you can find here.

There are times when a GT would have come in handy:

“Patagonia was so windy, my motorbike didn’t have much power. I had to drive with my head down at 40 km/h, and I was at full throttle,” Saito said of his first day, often switching between English and Japanese. “My bike had a top speed of about 65-or-70 km if the conditions were perfect, but if there was wind or hills, it was much, much less.”

North of Santiago, Nori entered mountainous terrain, the Andes, and began to realize the limitations of his tiny scooter.“My bike wasn’t able to go very fast with the height of the mountains. I was at full throttle and was going about 10 km/h and my engine stalled a few times.

He had some lovely accommodations along the way:

“I received a very strange reception when I entered Peru on March 14,” Nori continued.The children, it seemed, were not as interested in strangers as the kids in Chile, and Nori was welcomed with a flurry of rocks. He also found “one of the dirtiest, smelliest” rural hotels that he had ever seen, and some of the nicest soldiers he’d ever met.“It (the room) made me think of Alcatraz as beautiful.”

Are you offering me a bribe?!? Okay then, I will take it:

Central America posed the hardest part of his journey. He had trouble finding his scooter as the shipping company kept giving him the run-around. He also had to bribe border officials in Nicaragua to gain access to Honduras and saw a person killed right outside the Mexican border in Guatemala. “It was the first time that I’ve ever seen anybody die. Right before the border, I saw a bus speed and run over a person. It scared me; it really scared me,” Nori said with a serious look.

Oh yeah, he coulda used a bigger bike here too, he could ALSO use a better strategy for raising money:

After crossing into the United States on June 4, Nori said he entered onto what he described as his “hell road” – the Interstate. “It was very scary, there were four lanes and cars were going 130 kilometres an hour. I thought about changing to a bigger bike but I didn’t have enough money so I decided to go to Las Vegas to try to get some money. “I had no luck (in Vegas) and I spent a lot of money.”