Leaving in a week - Time Crunch

So Myself (Jesse), Danny, Greg, and Tamara were all sitting around the table in Tamara's Kitchen and Jim and his biking buddy, Ken, were talking about a cross-country bike trip they took in the early 80's. This sparked my interest quite a bit and I ended up calling Danny to run this crazy bike trip idea by him. Surprisingly enough he was very interested.

So yeah, I guess the rest is history. Seeing as we both have minimal biking experience it took us a long time to research what bikes and biking equipment we'd need because neither of us have taken a trip like this before.

We ended up investing in a pair of Surly Long Haul Truckers. The amount of research we had to do for this trip in such a short period was mind boggling. I wouldn't say wer're confident, but hopefully our drive is enough to carry us to the coast.

We decided to piece together the route as we go, but we'd like to head south and hit the coast in San Diego. We're going to start in Springfield, Illinois to avoid freezing nights in WI. I'm going to try and do a blog entry at least once per state.



-Jesse