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Around the United States on a budget

A solo, independent approach to the West Coast. starting from Southwest Florida

3,530 miles (5,680 km) over 100 days from January 23, 2008 to May 1, 2008

Topic: Bicycle Touring
Categories: Tour diaries, Equipment lists, Road bikes, 3-6 months, First tour, USA Coast to Coast, USA East to West
Locales: North America, United States
Year: 2008

Permalink: http://www.crazyguyonabike.com/doc/tomontour

Status: Completed May 2008
Last updated: Saturday May 3, 2008 13:27 UTC -08:00 (edited Sun 26 Oct 2008 12:50 UTC -08:00)
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Introduction/ Pre-Travel

Itinerary: My plan.... or.. umm...something like that.

Eqiupment: My favorite part--Bike shown here has been replaced with LHT (next page)

Day Before: uhhh, WOW.. new bike

Wishlist: Things I wish I had

There was a BANG: oh dear, I started. (ok, looks like 56k is all im going to be getting)

Florida: Panhandle is the only thing from saving this state from being a death trap

Day 1: Speedracer

Day 2: Made it Aracda, stadium arcadium and then I eat some plants.

Day 3: Man, oranges...millions of oranges.

Day 4: A blast from the past!

Day 5: *spring* What was that? I'm still moving, must not have been important

Day 6: Trucking to Gainesville

Day 7: Back to school, cause school is cool.

Day 8: Starting to get restless!

Day 9: I can't think of anything clever right now

Day 10: HEADWINDS ugggghhhh

Day 11: I'm going to die of boredom

Day 12: Best day so far

Day 13: Panama City Woooo, wheres the party at? Oh, im a month too early.... dope!

Day 14: Panama City rest day

Day 15: Tornado watch..... more like...Watch tornado

Day 16: Crazy Hippies - Will come back to update with text, im finally caught up with pictures and im freaking tired

Alabama

Day 17: Oh, its a ferry

Mississippi

Day 18: Highway 90 sucks, well, not really, just in Biloxi....at least there are tons of shiny cansinos

Louisiana: Lots of fat people and crazy cajuns. I loved it

Day 19: Nothing, washed away

Day 20: New Orleans! Mardi gras! oh, a week too late, darn

Day 21: Louisiana rain showers

Day 22: I get screwed

Day 23: Cajun Country!

Day 24: Lafayette....Louisiana

Day 25: Tailwinds and new fenders... huzzah

Texas: Lots of American and State flags, now I always know where the wind is blowing

Day 26: Headwinds, I knew yesterday was too good :(

Day 27: Beaumont - I blame all the misspellings and half completed sentences to the stupid computers I'm forced to use

Day 28: Still.....in....Beamont......

Day 30: Going to Galveston

Day 31: Houston more like Hugeston

Day 32: Houston jump on it

Day 33: Must make it to roundtop......STEAK!

Day 34: 150 miles between Houston and Austin? I think not!

Day 35: Austin is hot.... hot tamale

Day 36: Rest Day - No pictures :*(

Just a small spacer note thing: Statistics

Day 37: Luckenbach, Texas - Where everybody is somebody

Day 38: Frederi.........no wait the winds blowing my direction??? Go go go!

Day 39: Boring ride to San Angelo

Day 40: Rest Day

Day 41: I see some tumbleweed....

Day 42: It's snowing, forget this im not riding today

Day 43: I cheated today

Day 44: Muleshoe, home of the...........Mules.

New Mexicold

Day 45: Farewell, Texas

Day 46: New Mexico is WINDY

Day 47: Surprise!

Day 48: Nothing today

Day 49: Santa Fe, finally a real town

Day 50-52: Resting in Santa Fe

Day 53: Windy ways to Albeque

Day 54: Nice riding

Day 55: Indian Casino and trading posts

Day 56: Shiprock!

Arizoner

Day 57: Navajo Nation and Apache County

Day 58: I'll give a helping hand, why not?

Day 59: Packing Day

Day 60: Exploring Flagstaff

Day 61: Coffee Break

Day 62: Easter Sunday in the hogan

Day 63: Journey towards the canyon

Day 64: The Grand Canyon......along with all these loud and whiney tourists

Day 65: Decent into the canyon and back

Day 66: Going back to flagstaff.....the right way, by bicycle

Day 67: Back at Macy's coffee shop bumping into more friends

Day 68-71: Resting in Flagstaff

California

Day 72: Road trip

Day 73-74: Rest Days

Day 75: I realize my whole trip has been lacking green

Day 76: Riding into my first mountain, well not really but really

Day 77: Today has been the longest day of my life

Day 78: Coasting down a mountain is very fun

Day 79-81: Resting in Clovis...... in the high 80's

Day 82: Noooo....ripped off by the bike shop!

Day 83: You're right Uncle Eddy....... Yosemite.....good call.

Day 84: Swimming in the Devil's bathtub

Day 85: Sierra Point and Hidden Falls

Day 86: On top of the country's tallest waterfall

Day 87: Hike's Point

Day 88: Rest Day again..... I should prolly start riding soon

San Francisco: So I think this is the end......my only friend.

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Around the United States on a budget

A solo, independent approach to the West Coast. starting from Southwest Florida

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Introduction/ Pre-Travel

There was a BANG: oh dear, I started. (ok, looks like 56k is all im going to be getting)