“It never gets
easier, you just go faster.”
-Greg
LeMond
Word has gotten back to us that we
do not post enough on the blog! The good part of hearing this news is that it
was from people who were with us during the trip and therefore shared a piece of
the trip with us. That and we told them things that we probably should have
been posting here. The bad news is that means there might be people whom we
haven’t seen on the trip who are disappointed in our lack of posting and might
want to know more.
The biggest
reason we haven’t posted very much or very often is because we didn’t have a
keyboard. We tried several times to write on our phones but found it incredibly
slow and frustrating to the point where we gave up. Every time we had access to
a computer for a reasonable amount of time we have written a post. We have
filled up our journals with our experiences and would be excited to share them
with you next time we see you!
Where did
you start? How far is it? So where do you sleep? Do you have a stove? How long
is it going to take? Most of these questions we can field like a Boston Red Sox
shortstop, no sweat. One question, however, seems to always trip us up: what
made you decide to do this trip?
We did not
raise money for charity, its not something our dad did, I didn’t even have a
bucket list until we were halfway across the country. I think part of the
reason we had problems answering that question is because we have different
motivations for doing it. Julien refers to our family’s appetite for adventure
and Gabe’s AT through-hike as inspiration for a cross-country bike trip. He
talks about how he wanted to embark on a grand adventure before entering the real world with Microsoft in the fall. My
answer is simple; Julien invited me.
Where did you start? Seaside, OR
Where did you finish? Kittery, ME
How far did you go? 3,604 miles
How long did it take
you? 53 days (48 days of
biking)
How much do your bikes
/ panniers weigh? Bike: ? Panniers: ~40 lbs.
What was your route? Oregon, Washington, Idaho, Montana, North Dakota,
Minnesota, Wisconsin, Illinois, Indiana, Ohio, Pennsylvania, New York, Vermont,
New Hampshire, Maine
What was your favorite
part of the country? Idaho, Lake
Michigan and Erie
How are you still
talking to each other? Yes.
Did you guys fight a
lot? Not really. Just over
whose turn it was to do the dishes
- Camil
“I thought of that while riding my bike.”
-Albert Einstein on the Theory of
Relativity
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