And here my troubles begin

I made it to San Fransisco. My bike is en route to Mike's Bikes to be professionally reassembled and looked over before I begin. Right now I'm hanging out in SF, though Monday-Wednesday I'll be in LA before coming back here.

The trouble: as we were flying over Utah & Nevada, there was a lot of snow in the mountains. Getting into SF, I was talking with my uncle Jim who posited that it would be impossible to cross the sierras on a bike if there's 4' of snowpack still on the ground. Well, we'll see. I'm going to wait until next tuesday or wednesday and call the appropriate county departments of transportation and ask them if the roads are passable. If not, the alternate is to do an end run around the sierras, going south to Barstow before heading east. This would add 500 miles, at least a week, and two deserts to the trip. I'm not sure if this is what I really want to do. If I can get through Tahoe and Carson City, that's still my preferred route.

We shall see.

Route is done

I have made it all the way across the country! On a map, anyway. You will now notice two proposed route buttons, as apparently mapmyride gets less stable after 3500 miles.
The two maps together total 3796.7 miles. That's ending in Brooklyn, I'll add on the bit to Montauk when I have time.

A week from tomorrow I start riding 38 centuries. This is exciting. But now that the route's done, I need to do a final repack and get ready for my flight early tomorrow morning.

Wow wow wow, it's starting.

the button at the top

At the top of the blog you will notice a button that you can click to view the route map. I am currently working on the putting the the entire proposed route up (I'm mapped thought Utah so far). When I am riding, this will probably be replaced by the actual map, so you can follow along at home, at work, on the bus, at the beach or wherever you are when you feel the burning need to see where in the country I am.

So there. Map