Begin at the beginning...

After many years of dreaming and hoping, we will soon be bicycling across country. Beginning towards the end of July, we'll be doing a "self contained" ride, meaning that everything we need will be carried on our two bicycles. We'll be camping most nights, with a regular break in a hotel or B&B. We'll roughly follow the classic "TransAmerica" route developed and promoted by Adventure Cycling (http://www.adventurecycling.org/) with some deviations for personal interests and connections. We expect the trip to take us about three months and to be the classic "adventure of a lifetime".
Time is getting near, so I'll soon post what I can about our route, our preparations, our equipment choices and, a little bit about a cause. A trip of this sort ought to have a charitable dimension and ours will.
For starters, a little about us. We're both pretty avid cyclists, although not "beasts" by any means - a beast being those hearty folks who ride year round even in the North East and clock multiple thousands of miles each year! But we ride our share. We've done charity centuries (100 miles or more, great example: Tour de Tucson for The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society's Team in Training); causal centuries with our local club and family; organized tours such as Cycle Montana, or the defunct Moose Tour in Maine; and self directed week long tours in Ireland, the Netherlands, Belgium and along the Erie Canal here in New York. By the time we take this trip, we'll be sixty years old (at least one of us), so for this trip it seems like now or never.
Check back for more posts coming up soon and then follow us as we ride and blog our way across the country.
Michael