Tommy (The Hopeful Vagabond) here, one month TODAY I start my journey cycling from Kazakhstan to China! Fancy coming along for the ride?steemCreated with Sketch.

Who are you then Tommy? Unveil yourself!

Hey👋, hey👋, hey👋… I’m Tommy (alternative alias: The Hopeful Vagabond), 24 and from the UK, AND one month today I will embark on an adventure as I cycle from Kazakhstan to China to finish off my cycle ride of cycling from the UK to China! Last year I managed to cycle from the UK to Moscow, Russia (somehow?!). It feels like an auspicious time that SteemIt gets introduced to my life and therefore I’d like to share my story, feelings, thoughts, fears, emotions with a community built upon sharing and support not of the ideology that we’ve been lead to believe in a ‘dog eat dog’ world, no, collaboration is better!
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So to give a brief overview of who I am because well I quite frankly want to interact with others that share similar passions, beliefs, perspectives, feelings, thoughts and so much more. At the age of 24 I’ve suffered from Acute Lymphoblastic Leukaemia (twice), graduated in Audio Engineering & Music Production (not really used my degree to full effect), travelled around Southeast Asia for 7-months, and also planned a journey to cycle from the UK to China, thus far having reached Moscow, Russia before having to unintentionally fly home (for good reason!). I also have made my travels public knowledge through my own website, and I even went as far as tattooing my own blog name on me so I commit fully.

I’ve been browsing over quite a few introductory posts and seen that in many people are tagged who introduced the new author to SteemIt, I would love to do this as my brother is the one who introduced me. Unfortunately he isn’t set up on SteemIt just yet but will be at some point sharing his story, and his is one that you’re going to want to hear. Trust me.

What brings me here...? 😵

With SteemIt I have quite large ambitions… but what are they?!?! Well with a growing understanding of the community being built here I want to be part of it to help others, I’m human you’re human, two people happier is better than one so why not!

I hope to inspire people, I really do in whatever I do, If I can inspire one person to improve an aspect of their life then AWESOME! I’m also viewing SteemIt as a platform in which I can exercise myself, to unmask myself, to show and share my vulnerabilities as I've been learning more about myself over recent months, exploring myself more deeply, which has allowed a lot of reflection... still got a whole lot to do.

I also hope through this I can build connections with people and it may be hopeful but maybe turn these connections into lifelong friendships, I don't know who I can meet on here, there's over 170,000 people already and I'm sure I can connect on beautifully intrinsic level with someone...

One last thing I hope to do and yes I'm going to say it and be honest is that I do aim to make money on here and to be honest I hope I can make enough to survive on and let my writing and others be that that supports me as I go on this journey in life and one in which I want to be able to steer into a direction I desire.

So what do you post, huh? 📢

I’ll be aiming to post on a variety of topics. I aim to share a large part of my travels, especially as I fly to Almaty, Kazakhstan only one month from now to cycle over 3-months to China where I’m sure all sorts of shenanigans will happen.

I hope to share my hobbies with you from my taste in music, explorative mind set for life, science and nature, my future ambitions such as moving to Australia after China and figuring out how to set up a life away from a birthplace I never felt overly connected too.

I also will share the parts of life which are hard to share on social media, the low parts because at the end of the day life isn’t like Instagram, but I want to do this in a way of reflection and learning. I know I’ve gone through a lot of shit and quite frankly I am lucky to be here and now I need to make the most of my time!
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This life is going to be one hell of a journey for me and maybe someone on here will ride it with me, through their understandings, compassion and appreciation for another human, connections I'm becoming more and more awake to.

I appreciate all follows, upvotes, high-fives and hugs, so thank-you!

Tommy 🌄

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Welcome to steemit @hopefulvagabond. Your story is very inspirational and of course what you are going to do is absolutely amazing. It takes a lot of determination and courage to do such a thing. I will be following your journey and wish you all the very best :) looking forward to your posts and Happy Steeming . You also get my full up vote :)

Hey thanks a lot for the kind words! Thanks for opting to follow the journey, definitely going to pour as much into it as possible for the greatest experience which I will aim to share - really encouraging to see this reply to my first post so that means a whole lot, thanks! 👍

You are most welcome :)

Good luck here

Great intro :0) welcome and nice to meet u. Followed thx for sharing

Thanks Saffi! :)

Ur welcome :0)

What an inspiring story! Welcome to Steemit! I can't wait to follow you on your journey!!

Thanks, I hope to make it as entertaining as possible (obviously!) Ha

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Oh you've gotten around, wechat probably isn't a must when you're in the west of China, but otherwise it would be.
Have fun mate, I've been wanting to go on that trip for over a year, but I need to bum up enough money for a flight to Europe at least to begin the trek.
Hopefully you don't run out of gears climbing those hills though, depending on which passes you take you can hit what's practically a wall going up hundreds of meters :)

So it's probably best to get the app :)
Ah man I'm sorry to hear that it's money holding you back, where do you live? Hopefully through Steemit it can give you that freedom!
Haha yeah I'm a bit wary of the potential climbs, it may take me a while :)

You can always bring a dinner-plate sized cassette if your bike can fit it :)

I travel around USA/Canada bumming it on workaway and similar, I did it by bike for awhile but now I find it easier to simply get on a train (freight) or get a cheap bus because I didn't have a bike that could fit panniers for a labtop, and I want to have a labtop for things now, like steem.
Hopefully~

Not sure I can give that much space haha
Mate, I wouldn't say that's bumming it, you're actually living, you're sitting behind a desk for the next 30-years with the same view... I bet you have a really interesting life man :)
Yeah a laptop is a must almost with steem, I'm sure what you want in life will happen soon 👍

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