Well people, it only took me most of a year, but I finally got around to editing the video and super 8 film from the trip.
BIKE ACROSS AMERICA
The Big Q’s
Here are some questions people have asked us over the last several weeks. Maybe they'll help someone decide whether they want to do something like this, and if they do, maybe have a better trip. --What’s the plan when you guys finally get to NY? Go straight to work to make some money, that goes…
“So are you guys lovin’ it or what?”
We rode bicycles from Los Angeles to New York City in 53 days for 227 hours and 3303.3 miles. Throughout the trip, and now at the end, when people ask us how it was, the answers end up sounding mostly negative, but they're not really. I don't think we mean for it to sound quite…
A pilgrimage to Mecca
Years ago, Brian Young called the company that makes the candy Mike and Ike's to complain about how good they were. His complaint was that he couldn't stop eating them, so they sent him more. Other than my extra special lady friend, I'd never met anyone who ate candy like Brian until going on this…
See you there
You'd think with less than a week of riding left that we'd have this thing down, but there's something different about Pennsylvania. There's the two west to east interstate highways and then everything else is a crazy web of indirect roads and smaller highways. Oh, and there's no flat. You're either riding up or riding…
Doing it the wrong way
Imagine you're watching the tour de france on tv. There's one rider who's all by himself, he must be on a break away. You can tell he's trying hard, out of the seat for every hill. It's the first break in a string of bad weather days so he's really feeling strong. Maybe his first…
Otter pops
If you walk into the McDonalds bathroom and a guy has his foot up in the air under the hand dryer, it's just me trying to thaw my feet out. Frozen feet and hands seem to be pretty much standard at this point. The temperature drop about a week ago signaled the last phase of…
Just tryin’ to keep it interesting
Let's start it off by saying that we were the only two people in all of downtown Indianapolis wearing costumes last night. To top it off, they don't sell beer in Indiana on Sundays, so we had to go out in public with zero priming. Now, I'm not trying to say that we're by any…
So everyone partied on Saturday? Woops.
We're in Indianapolis, and ready for Halloween. One of these guys is getting shitty tonight. Or both.
Hey there neighbor
I love it when people wave. It doesn't matter if you think you're a hard ass or a nice guy, when some one on the side of the road you don't know waves at you, you can't help but wave back. I think one of the main reasons I like it is because we get…
WE'RE REALLY DOING IT 