My Cross-Country Bike Tour

Read my final note and thank-yous:

So this is it. No more camping out in the Colorado woods alone, no more getting caught in the rain in 40-degree weather, no more meeting wacky strangers on the side of the road. Sometimes I thought that I’d never make it, but I’m finally done. My cross-country excursion is […]

Finale slideshow of pictures from the Midwest and the South

I am 13 miles away from Yorktown and I’m currently resting in a hotel in historical Williamsburg that Joanne Hansinger of The Arc of the United States has arranged for me. I’m set to travel the final few miles tomorrow with some other cyclists from a local cycling club who will be joining me.
 
Section 12 […]

I’m almost at the end of my trip. Though I ride through unfamiliar territory, each day has taken on familiar feel. My equipment functions perfectly, and when it doesn’t, I know how to fix it. The sharp aching that I felt in my legs so long ago at the start of my trip has been […]

Section 10 is done. I now only have 750 miles—eastern Kentucky and the whole of Virginia—standing between me Yorktown. The biggest obstacle I’m facing is the Appalachians, the last mountain range I’ll cross on my route. The general consensus on the Appalachians seems to be that they’re a souped-up version of the Ozarks. Judging from […]

I left Bob and Violet in Sebree and ended up in the Rough River Dam State Park the next day, where I met up again with Noah and John after patching up flat number six. The weather in the past few days had gotten comfortably cool at night and so we all split the cost […]

From Carbondale I took a shortcut and rode a relatively flat century over the Ohio River into Sebree, Kentucky. The official route from Carbondale to Sebree would’ve had me cross the Ohio farther south and I would’ve needed to take a ferry. After remembering my run-in with the construction site near Togwotee Pass in Wyoming […]

The Ozarks put up quite a fight—some of the grades I climbed were significantly steeper than anything I tackled in the Rockies—but I made it across alive. What was troublesome about crossing the Ozarks was the humidity. On some hills I’d be sweating buckets and none of the sweat would evaporate, leaving my shirt and […]

All right, so I’m officially not in Kansas anymore. Kansas wasn’t quite what I expected. I didn’t get to pull uninterrupted centuries through the state, I didn’t get to visit the Cosmosphere and Space Center, and—perhaps worst of all—I wasn’t able to reenact my “Fields of Gold” daydream. Oh well…better luck next time.
 
Moving on…today I […]

Exotic animal farm (check Day 48) and other interesting stuff.