Tag: Cross Country Bike Trip

Back in 2009 I took some time off work and did a bike ride across the US, from Astoria, Oregon to Charlottesville, Virginia. I’ve gone ahead and migrated the blog over to this blog (comments and all! )and tagged them. This trip was at a time when you had to use these things called ‘paper…

3 months ago to the day I was in Oregon, getting ready for my big adventure. And now I’m finally back in Tucson! Wow, it feels like ages since I’ve been back! I’ve done so much and now I’m back on my comfy sofa. Paola is upstairs sleeping right now. She has moved in while…

Yesterday after completing my tour I biked down to Poquoson, a town about 10 miles south of Yorktown where my friend Ryan’s parents Jim and Eileen live. Jim and Ryan both worked across the river here at the NASA Langley Research Center, and Jim found a beautiful piece of land nearby and built a very…

Distance: 80 avg: 12.8 Woooooo Hooooooo!!! I’m dooooone! Yes, I have finished biking across the country! Some statistics: 4200 miles biked along the Transamerican trail. An average of 48 miles a day. Including training I biked 5690 miles since April. 236.5 dog attacks thwarted. 5 bajillion calories eaten. I broke camp, and headed out to…

Distance: 83 avg: 12.8 Today I had the police called on me after attending vacation bible study. I must look pretty dangerous. Or homeless. I arrived in Glendale, which has a church which allows cyclists to stay there. But it turns out that vacation bible school was going on. So from 6:30 to 8:30 if…

Distance: 56 avg: 12.2 A short day, due to the limited places to overnight in Virginia. I have a 48-mile stretch to the next town. The miles are pretty smooth, I could probably clear a 100-miler. But I might as well enjoy these last days. I’m finding myself noticing the last of things. The last…

The Poe exhibit was closed, but I biked over to Monticello, the home of Thomas Jefferson. The house is truly extraordinary and unique. Many aspects of the house were built with mechanical apparatus. In the same way we may lay cable inside walls, Jefferson built cables and pulleys inside his. His house was a showcase…

Distance: 70 average: 9.9 Tall mountains and rain? Have I been teleported back to Oregon? The mountains are round instead of jagged, the ferns have been replaced by kudzu. At the top I watched as a cloud of mist engulfed me. I put on my booties and a jacket and kept going. Soon I was…

Distance: 75: avg:12.1 For some reason I am super tired, and pretty much collapsed into my tent. I took a small nap and I’ll probably go directly to bed after this. Today’s riding had some nice relaxing downhills, but first I had to go uphill most of the time. 🙂 after it stopped raining it…

Distance: 76 avg: 11.7 Virginia continues to be an interesting and great ride. The hills aren’t too crazy, just enough to stay interesting. I’m currently staying in a shed behind the general store in Catawba. Its actually much nicer than it sounds. The princely sum I paid was $3. I’ve paid more for places without…