[🇬🇧] Picture 2: 4000km. For some person, it may seem like little. And yet, that day, I (Cassandre) was so deeply moved...

Picture 3: You see that? It’s the kind of bite you snap a photo of in the moment, then forget about... But what you don’t realize is that it slowly eats away at you from the inside... until the crash, years later. Brain, heart, gut, muscles, every system is affected. A 15-minute walk would leave me exhausted for hours. The diagnosis: Lyme disease, chronic form, just to make it more fun!

Two years ago, I began a 6-month antibiotic treatment, followed by a year of naturopathic care. Dozens of capsules to swallow every single day. The treatment burns through your body. A true trial by fire. Lying down almost from morning to night, I watched life pass me by...

That’s a migratory erythema (bull’s-eye rash).

If you have this, go straight to the pharmacy!

Picture 4: That 4,000 km touched me deeply, because we crossed the mountains of northern Vietnam, northern Laos, and northern Thailand. It moved me because it wasn’t easy, but one kilometer at a time, we did it. The post-effort crashes are gone. The pain is still there, every day, with every pedal stroke. But the muscles have come back. And just being able to say, “I did it, it’s not something only others get to do”... what an incredible joy!

And him, he’s the most supportive partner, the one who always believed in me, who respects my limits while gently pushing me beyond them.