Hi! My name is Amiena, and I am an avid cyclist, educator, and traveler. I am just wrapping up my three year stint in Fukui, Japan, a small city on the Sea of Japan, where I teach English in an academic high school. When I am not teaching, I am out cycling on country roads in Fukui, climbing mountains, or doing yoga. Prior to living in Japan, I taught English at a high school in my hometown of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA. I have traveled to 17 countries, most recently to Thailand and Laos. While I enjoy most outdoor activities, particularly hiking and camping, cycling remains my favorite. I am participating in the 2008 BEE Ride in order to explore the sustainable living options the team adheres to, particularly vegetarianism and alternative transportation. I want to know how I can live a kind of lifestyle that will make the smallest possible footprint, and I think the BEE Ride can help me begin to achieve that. はじめまして！ 私はアミーナ・マスブです。私は、アメリカのペンシルバニア州にあるピッツバーグ市から来た教師で、旅行が好きなサイクリストです。福井では３年間英語の教師をしています。暇な時間ができると、サイクリングや山登りをしたり、ヨガをしたりします。日本に来る前、私は高校で英語の教師をしていました。これまで１７ヶ国を旅行しました。アウトドアが好きでハイキングやサイクリングは特に好きです。環境保護に大変興味があるので、今回この企画に申し込みをしました。どれだけ環境を壊さないで生活できるかを身をもって知るのに、BEEへの参加はとても有効だと思っています。
After 600 kilometers and 11 days, the BEE team has finally arrived in Muroran, our final destination in Hokkaido, Japan’s northernmost island. Tonight at 11:30, we will take a ferry to Aomori, the northernmost tip of Honshu, the island I have called home for the past three years. Although we started off in Wakkanai as [...]
Woo! We finally made it to Wakkanai, the starting point for our 3500 kilometer tour. Emi, Nicholas, Colin, Fan and I met in Fukui for some pre-ride planning and trouble-shooting before riding a ferry for 19 hours from Tsuruga to Tomakomai ferry port. From the ferry port, we rode 30 kilometers to Tomakomai City, where we stayed [...]
It happened just this morning. I was cycling up my favorite mountain when I heard a sound behind me. I checked my mirror and instead of a motorbike, I saw an elderly gentleman on a battery-powered bicycle. A few seconds later, he passed me, his little arthritic legs slowly pumping up and down. Thirty seconds [...]
Along the ridge of a mountain range that lays between Fukui City and the Echizen Coast sit a series of windmills that can be seen from the city on clear days. On Saturday, I went for a hill climb training ride with my two cycling partners, Kobayashi-san and Takashima-san to prepare for some of the mountain [...]
If the image of the sweaty BEE team cycling in the hot August sun isn’t sexy enough for you, then add to that the fact that we will be wearing 47% recycled polyester jerseys!! Mt. Borah Custom Sublimation is currently in the process of making the 2008 jerseys with Repreve performance recycled polyfabric. BEE is [...]
