May 1, 2017
I'm almost ready for my first and last really big travel adventure. Home repairs and house painting will have to wait, birthdays, weddings, funerals, and my coffee klatch will have to go on without me.
I've got a new bike, sleeping bag, tent, and rain gear, and I'm soon to be headed west.
I plan to leave Yorktown Va. on May 12, and be in Astoria Oregon around mid-August. The route I am taking is the Trans-America route established around 1976. It is a well documented route with maps and information published by the Adventure Cycling Association. Here is a link to there web site: www.adventurecycling.org . Thousands of people have ridden this route, and I hope to be one of them. The route leaves Yorktown, winds it's way across Virginia, Kentucky, Illinois, Missouri, Kansas, and then into Colorado where it turns northwest through Colorado, Wyoming, Montana, Idaho, and across Oregon to Astoria on the pacific coast. Here is a link to a route map on the adventure cycling web site. https://www.adventurecycling.org/routes-and-maps/adventure-cycling-route-network/interactive-network-map/ This is an interactive map that you can zoom in on to closely follow the route.
I am traveling alone and self-supported. I plan to mostly camp, or stay in shelters provided by civic organizations and churches along the way and occasionally sleep in a motel or hostel. Here is a link to the type of places where I hope to stop for the night. http://www.crazyguyonabike.com/doc/page/pic/?pic_id=660923, and here is a link to the hospitality I hope to encounter on my trip. This is a sign outside the Elk Garden United Methodist Church near the Virginia/Kentucky border.http://www.crazyguyonabike.com/doc/page/pic/?pic_id=658353
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