After spending almost 20 years in international health and as a medical humanitarian worker, I decided to take time off to pause, reflect, and hop on a cycle to meet and talk to people along my bike route about health. I want to collect their thoughts, hear their voices, learn about their concerns, and share my stories from Brazil to the Congo, and debate how to improve access to quality health care.When I started planning this bike tour-of-a-lifetime, my impulse was to immediately use this opportunity to raise awareness about one of the organizations that I hold dear to my heart, the one that I have been associated with since 1995 – Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF). Along the way, I will be joined by friends, including economist Jo Puri, Canadian Olympic silver medalist, bob sledder Helen Upperton, Indian poet and author Jeet Thayil, Dr Matt Spitzer, former MSF USA Board president and actor Jordana Spiro, to name a few.