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 a thru-hike of the Appalachian Trail. Thru-hiking …
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 country and there is no one gear list that is going to work for everyone. Take the following for what it is, …
(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 would begin our 4,288 mile bike ride to Astoria, Oregon. We arrived at a church who was allowing us to park there …
(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 you meet when you decide to let everyone in. Life on the road is not a glamorous one, you’re often very sweaty, …
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. Experiencing, through conversation, a life so very far from your own. To these people you are just an extra in their movie …
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 biked a little over 4,300 miles to get to the most northwestern part of Oregon. A whirlwind of events ensued that did …
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