Yannik Richard is now at the halfway mark of his his journey, which he says is sometimes a bumpy ride.

On Sept. 22, Richard began his trek east from British Columbia using secondary roads in his motorized wheelchair.

“I average 100 kilometres a day, 125 or so. It’s really, really hard for me. I’m on the road five or six hours a day, and it’s hard on my hands because I have to steer the wheelchair,” he says.

Richard is followed by a donated RV, making stops at ALS support centres and hearing people’s stories detailing family members battling the disease.

He recalls when a driver pulled a lengthy U-turn just to meet him.

“He saw the RV in the road and it did ten kilometres just to find us and to make a donation,” Richard says.

Richard himself was blindsided by a diagnosis just over two