Bobilan 5 (thousand)

Ilan and Bob ride from New York to Los Angeles for charity.

2,918 miles (4,696 km) recorded so far over 68 days from August 26, 2009 to November 1, 2009

Topic: Bicycle Touring
Categories: Recovery, Tour diaries, Equipment lists, Road bikes, 1-3 months, Pacific Coast, USA Coast to Coast, North to South, USA East to West
Locales: North America, United States, New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Iowa, Nebraska, Utah, Wyoming, Colorado, Nevada, California
Year: 2009

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Status: Unfinished, not updated for 846 days
Last updated: Friday October 16, 2009 21:44 UTC -08:00
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What is Bobilan? (Who we are): autobiographical blurbs.

First Training Miles Completed: We're Rolling

Getting closer...: Our tentative route

Gear!: What we're taking.

First Day, Oh yeah: New York City to Coldspring, NY

Day Two: Cold Spring, NY to Equinunk, PA

Ithaca is Gorges: After a slow start we get wet and hit our first century

Day 4: Ithaca, NY to Geneva, NY: Hobart and William Smith College Campus Police hate women with breast cancer

Off we're gonna shuffle, shuffle off to Buffalo: There's no honeymoon that's cheaper

O Canada!: With glowing hearts we see thee rise, the True North strong and free

Selkirk, ON to London, ON: Canada is Great but empty

Border shenanigans and Motor City: Reluctantly we enter Michigan

Resting up and another college town.: Detroit, MI to Ann Arbor, MI to Stockbridge, MI

We haul ass: then pass out

Chicago to Oregon, IL: Camping turns more difficult than it should be

We make it to the Mississippi: and meet a lot of bikers

Iowa is great: it's our new favorite state

People love us in Iowa: Iowa City to Grinnell

Grinnel to Des Moines: Clint Puts us up.

Des Moines to Atlantic: It's Iowa, "come on in"

We make the news!: From Atlantic to the dead center of the country

"Budweiser? That's Indian drink": Omaha to Decatur

We're Vermillionaires: tougher than Nebraskan hair

Vermillion, SD to Lake Andes, SD: We find a familiar face

Rest Day in Lake Andes: Fishin'

Lake Andes, SD to Winner, SD: We meet 3 other cycletourists.

Winner, SD to White River, SD: or "The jet stream goes crazy all over our asses"

White River, SD to Interior, SD: Grasslands and Indian Towns

Interior,SD to Rapid City, SD via the Badlands: Bad bad lands and a very rapid city

Rest in Rapid: Mount Rushmore, Custer State Park, Buffalo, Antelope

Rapid City, SD to Edgemont, SD: Over the Black Hills

Edgemont, SD to Torrington, WY: We hitch a little bit and save a day

Torrington, WY to Cheyenne, WY: Western Hospitality Finds us again

Cheyenne, WY to Fort Collins, CO: Finally we get some riding company

Fort Collins, CO to Boulder, CO: We make it to "base camp"

Boulder to Estes Park, CO: So 34 is out, we are forced to re-route

Or maybe not...: some major re-routing takes place

Boulder to Colorado Springs, CO: On the road for real, heading south

Colorado Springs to Colorado City: Escaping the frigid north

Colorado City to La Veta, CO: Wind prevents our crossing the pass

La Veta, CO to San Luis: WIND!

San Luis, CO to Espanola, NM: A new state, our first tarantula, highest mph so far and our most scenic ride to date.

Espagnola to Santa Fe and Albuquerque, NM: Easy day + train ride

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Bobilan 5 (thousand)

Ilan and Bob ride from New York to Los Angeles for charity.

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