Day 22 through Day 30: Saint Louis, MO – Herman,MO – Columbia,MO – Sedalia,MO – Clinton,MO Day 22 starts in good ole St. Louis, Missouri. The hometown. What I found strange is that for 22 days I have been inching my way across the country and my perception of the accumulative distance wasn’t really intact until I arrived …Read More
Day 19 through Day 22. What do you eat on the road?
Day 19 through Day 22: Bloomington, IN – Sumner, IL – Sedalia, IL – Saint Louis, MO Once I got out of Indiana and into Illinois, my riding was pretty smooth. Smooth as in flat as can be. There’s nothing like looking straight ahead and being able to see two miles or so into the …Read More
Day 13 through 18. Rural America
Day 13 through 18: Saint Clairsville, OH – Zanesville, OH – London, OH – Hamilton, OH – Brookville, IN – Columbus, IN – Bloomington, IN Following my most recent route through Pittsburgh, I decided that it just isn’t worth it to go through large metropolitan areas. The main issue is that the city traffic is far more dangerous than the …Read More
Day 7 through Day 12. Under the stars
Day 7 through Day 12: Mcconellsburg, PA – Somerset, PA – West Mifflin, PA – Robinson Township, PA – New Athens, OH – Saint Clairsville, OH I sit here from the Red Roof Inn in Saint Clairsville, Ohio ready to head out for the morning. I strolled in here at 8am yesterday morning after a very very rough night. …Read More
Day 2 through Day 6. I’m uber competitive
Day 2 through Day 6: Hillsborough, NJ – Philadelphia, PA – Newark, DE – Baltimore, MD – Westminster, MD – McConnellsburg, PA It was the morning of Day 2, that I decided to scrap my initial preplanned route and felt that just winging it westward would be better. So after a stop in Philly at the end of Day 2, I …Read More
Bike from NY to LA. The Journey has begun. Day 1 Recap
I am currently writing to you from a youth hostel in Baltimore, Maryland, about 240 miles into the trip. So how am I feeling? Pretty good actually. I was the most sore after Day 1 and the soreness was all in my quads and my upper-back. Very isolated. I feel much better now, I think …Read More