I thought I should follow the TransAmerica updates by answering some questions I have been asked about the ride. First of all, Steve and I bought maps from Adventure Cycling which were extremely helpful. Along the route we experienced many incidents, which I was unable to fit into the updates to my church. These are…
Friday, July 23, 2010 Greetings from Yachats, Oregon–a cute little coastal village south of Astoria. The bike trip is over and I actually made it the entire way across our beautiful country! The final mileage total is 4,230 miles–and I pedaled (or pushed) the bike over every one of them! The last week was a…
Thursday, July 15, 2010 Hi all! This update is a day or two early but I never know when I’m going to have access to the internet so I am taking advantage while I do. Tonight I am in a small Presbyterian church in Dayville, OR. The church allows cyclists to use its fellowship hall…
Saturday, July 10, 2010 Hi, everyone! Tonight I’m in Cambridge, ID. We are a day behind schedule at this point but this week’s ride was longer than normal (420 miles) so we figured we’d be behind. It was that or put in several 80-mile days and in the heat and terrain we didn’t want to…
Sunday, July 04, 2010 Today, Sunday, we’re in Missoula, MT taking a day off. We got here yesterday afternoon and are still on schedule. This coming week, however, is 411 miles through mountains so we will probably fall a day behind schedule (as we don’t think we can average 70 miles a day for the…
Saturday, June 26, 2010 Hi everyone! We’re in West Yellowstone, MT tonight–day off tomorrow. It’s been a pretty good week although there has been some pretty tough riding. While still in WY we saw a lot of antelope, often running in the ditch alongside us! One morning I saw a mother antelope with two tiny…
Saturday, June 19, 2010 Greetings from Wyoming! We got into Rawlins, WY this afternoon and are still on schedule. It was quite the week, we crossed three mtn. passes–two of 9600 ft. and one, Hoosier Pass, of 11, 542 ft. They were long climbs but not as steep as the Appalachians so we were able…
Sunday, June 13, 2010 Halfway! We made the halfway point, 2132 miles, two days ago. We are in Canon City CO today Last week we were riding in very hot weather, 90’s and twice in the 100’s and today it is 47 degrees. We’ll have to get used to cooler weather (we’ve been told it…
Saturday, June 05, 2010 We are in Larned, KS tonight. It has been really hot (95 today, 97 yesterday) but we have managed to get our 60 or more miles in each day by leaving earlier in the morning and getting off the road by early afternoon. I forgot to mention last time that we…
Friday, May 28, 2010 We are in Columbia, MO today. We diverted from the official route to go up to the KATY Trail, a dirt bike trail across MO, as Steve had not seen it before. We spent one night in a hostel in Tebbetts (remember that town, Dave & Eric?), a small (as in…