Ride my bike cross-country

I relaized a few days ago that soon im going to finish high school. considering that this year i have tottaly ruined any chance of getting a scholarship? im not going to college! so. i though to myself… what am i going to do?

today i have a plan! Im going to bike through all of the us, every state, in 2011- 2012. In the summer im going to tour the north part of the states, and in the winter the suther part. I live in new york, and have been confined to 3 states in my life.

I have already started to plan a route and making money, in a few years il make about 10- 15k which will be way more than enough to do this.

This is the one thing that i can say i know im going to do.

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the summer of 2001, i rode from San Fransisco to Washington DC. it changed my life in a few ways:
1) helped me realized that i can do what i and others deem impossible or insane
2) i became an avid cyclist and bike commuter
3) i learned how to fix bikes
4) i learned what meditation in action really means
5) helped me realize how beautiful the US landscape and many of the people in this country really are

this is something I want to do, but in the future. Like years in the future.

I no longer have a bike. This oversight goes one step beyond putting the cart before the horse: it attempts to do that without having said cart in possession any more. I’ll retire this for now and pare my lofty aspirations down to bite sized chunks, starting with getting a new bike.

I have biked acros several countries, just not my own yet. It’ll likely have to wait for another year though.

This November: La Ruta Des Conquistadores, a 3-day mtn bike race across Costa Rica- coast to coast.

I did this a few years ago and had a great time. I went by myself, but I followed the well established 1976 route for most of the trip (starting in Virginia, and ending in Oregon).

Lots of people make the same trip each summer, so you’ll frequently bike for a few days with other people, depending on your pace. If you’re female don’t do it alone, but if you’re a guy I don’t think anybody will bother you (beyond the typical assholes who feel the need to chuck stuff at you as they drive by).

It took me 8 weeks of biking (and 10 weeks total because I took time off in Colorado and Wyoming to sight-see). I usually slept in small town parks or camp grounds, with a motel about once a week to clean up. Everybody was very friendly, and I even had strangers buy me breakfast or invite me to their homes for dinner (people are universally impressed, not realizing that this is a pretty easy feat).

Not being a good cyclist is no excuse. By the time you’re done, trust me, you’ll be a good cyclist. However, get comfortable making simple repairs to your bike (especially fixing spokes, because you’ll probably break one or two). And if you’re using a road bike, gear it down to save your knees over the mountains.

DO THIS!

PS – Kansas? Really fucking flat.