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Biking Across America
It was the winter of 2018, I was adjusting to my first year of university after having taken a 143 day break from the real world. A break that led me to walk from Georgia to Maine, covering around 2, 189 miles and traveling through 14 states, completing…
Gear list and General Advice
The following material is what I carried with me on my bike trip on the Trans American Trail and things that I found useful. There is no one way to bike across the…
The Prologue: Deciding and Preparing to Bike Across the United States
(Written May 8th, 2018) There’s something about travelling with your entire life strapped onto you. Something that is so liberating, being able to have everything you need to survive within arm’s reach. Traveling…
Chapter 1: From Sea to Shining Sea
(written May 22nd, 2018) 11 days ago my two friends and I hopped in a car with our bikes and equipment for the summer and drove on down to Yorktown, Virginia, where we…
Chapter 2: Hidden Gems of Rural America
(written June 11th, 2018) It’s pretty amazing what you can see when you take the time to look, what you can experience when you don’t design barriers for yourself, and the people that…
Chapter 3: The Wild West
One of the best parts about traveling is the people that you meet along the way. The complete strangers that you chat with in the small or large towns that you come across.…
Chapter 4: The Great Expansion
(written July 12th, 2018) 60 days ago my friend Jenny and I began our journey along the Trans American bike trail. A 4,288 mile journey from Yorktown, Virginia to Astoria, Oregon. Traversing through…
Chapter 5: Ocean Bound
On May 13th, I began my journey via bicycle from the Atlantic to the Pacific Coast along the Trans American Trail with my pal Jenny. We biked through torrential rainfall, blistering heat, the bitter…
The Epilogue: Reflections of a Cross Country Journey
After 74 days of biking west, Jenny and I arrived in Astoria, Oregon on July 25th around 2pm. We started our journey in May on the East Coast in Yorktown, Virginia and had…
Life Without Limits 