Intro

On June 21, 2007, I completed my first ever multi-day cross-country bicycle journey: A two-month, unaccompanied stealth camping tour from Austin, Texas, across 17 states, to West Quoddy Head, Maine—the easternmost tip of the USA. What follows will be a piecemeal, perhaps circuitous account of that experience, often digressing onto remote conscious trajectories travelled in the midst of seemingly endless pedalling, as well as a chronicle of my preparations for a far more ambitious endeavor inspired along the way. I'd also like to include an occasional grim or colorful anecdote from another adventure cyclist, so if you have one to share, please contact me.

Here I should also mention I returned home without a single photograph. Nearly all my original gear, camera included, I left on the roadside In Massachusetts after my wheel rack broke. And to be honest, I really don't care, because the pictures in my head are far more vivid.

Enjoy!