Originally Posted by
jbphilly
I should probably clarify that I'm not attempting to pass the bike tour off as work experience. Rather, I thought it was a good idea to show that, since I wasn't working the last few months, I was actually doing something interesting rather than loafing around and/or being rejected from every job I applied to. The section of the resume where I listed what I was doing during each span of time since college seemed like the only logical place to put this.
Given people's feedback here, putting it there would obviously be confusing...so back to the drawing board.
Leave it off. Don't mention it on your resume at all.
IF a potential employer notices the gap, they will ask you in the interview. At that point you can briefly tell them what you were doing. Have a short speech prepared with some highlights. Even better if you can come up with a few quick points about your trip that somehow apply to the potential job.
In a few years, the gap (that looks so glaringly obvious to you now because you've just completed the trip) will hardly be visible.
I think it would take some careful digging to find my first extended tour now.
Oh, and start taking night classes and/or volunteer ... doing that is a great way to disguise gaps because then you've got stuff in your Employment and your Education or Additional categories.