Globetrotting biker makes pitstop in Bonners Ferry
NED NEWTON | Hagadone News Network | UPDATED 1 year AGO
Klaus Lüttgen stopped in Bonners Ferry in the midst of a 6,000-mile bike trip across North America to raise awareness of the value of clean drinking water.
Photo by NED NEWTON
BONNERS FERRY — Since April, a German man has been biking from the Atlantic Coast in Newfoundland across the country before heading north to the Arctic Ocean in the Northwest Territories. Last week, about halfway through his 6,000-mile journey, Klaus Lüttgen stopped in Bonners Ferry.
Lüttgen travels with an egg-shaped trailer that weighs over 100 pounds, signed by various people with whom he has crossed paths on his vast journey across North America. The egg contains Lüttgen’s tent, sleeping bag, clothes and other essentials.
Lüttgen has been traveling from Cape Spear, one of the easternmost points on the continent, since April. His stop in Bonners Ferry came en route to Bellingham, Wash., where he will catch a ship to Skagway, Alaska, to finish his trip to Tuktoyaktuk, a frigid hamlet in the Northwest Territories of Canada mostly inhabited by Inuit people. He hopes to reach his Arctic destination by October.
“My mission is contacting indigenous people who have ideas for the world,” he said at his stop at the Bonners Ferry Herald on July 16. That night, he set up camp at McArthur Lake and the following night near Priest River.
According to his website, RockTheRoad.com, Lüttgen intends to “ride through North America to draw attention to the ever-increasing littering of the waters of our planet Earth.”
Lüttgen said he wants to remain humble throughout his journey, listening to others’ perspectives rather than dictating his own.
“I am just Klaus,” he said.
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