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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

Copyright © 2008-2012 By Tom Hornyak - (contact)

Status: Completed May 2008Featured Journal #484
Last updated: Saturday May 3, 2008 13:27 UTC -08:00 (edited Sun 26 Oct 2008 12:50 UTC -08:00)
233,280 hits since January 18, 2008 (hitcounts updated nightly)
492 pics

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Table of Contents

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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