One day to departure video and pics. We tuned our bikes up in a Walmart parking lot, had our first night of camping. We skipped paying for a camp ground and went back into the woods where some houses were being built and found a perfect empty lot to camp in.
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We did a 90 mile ride today from Arlington, VA to Purcellville, VA today on the W&OD trail. The W&OD used to be a railroad line that ran from 1859 to 1968. Now the trail is a popular biking, running, dog walking, and skipping trail in the Northern Virginia area. It runs 45 miles to Purcellville, so it makes perfect sense to see the end of the trail, right? Today we put all gear out to see what we're dealing with. It seems like a lot obviously but we've been pretty careful to not take anything we don't absolutely need. We're going on a 90 mile ride tomorrow to Purcellville from Arlington. We head to Kitty Hawk this Thursday morning and will be hang gliding Friday, and heading out Saturday morning.
I sat down with my friend George Babiak this past weekend to talk about the Bike Trip and some of George’s biking journeys. In 1995 George biked with his wife from New York City to Alberta Canada and covered over 4,000 miles. We've pretty much nailed down our route across the country and have referenced a number of different sources for the right roads to ride on. We are riding on parts of the TransAmerica Trail established by the Adventure Cycling Association. The Adventure Cycling Association was established in 1973 and is the number one source for Bicycle routes and travel by bicycle. We will be following the TransAmerica Trail mostly through Kentucky, Missouri, and Kansas. The trip is fairly straightforward until we get to Colorado and then we are in for several physically grueling weeks. We are completing numerous Life-Lists items, competing in races and attending all sorts of events in Colorado and Utah. TONS of organization! Where to stay, what to do, who to meet. Lots of planning is going on right now and it's really becoming quite an exciting reality as things are falling into place. I biked the perimeter of Manhattan yesterday, starting on the Upper East Side, on up the FDR around the top, over to the Upper West side, down around the tip, across the Brooklyn Bridge, then back up the FDR to finish where I started. It's about 32 miles around the island and I did it in about 2:30 with significant detours at some places. It was about 90 degrees out yesterday with pretty heavy humidity, so it should be relatively similar to a lot of the conditions we will encounter on the trip, except for the deserts in Nevada, which we don't really know what to expect. |
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