Thursday, July 05, 2018

Bits and Pieces, Part #1

  1. It’s tradition to save turtles that wander on the road during a TransAm trip.  Steve and I saved about a dozen, at least temporarily.  Several more at the side of the road, we yelled at.  Several in the road we left to succeed or not. There’s a philosophical issue here somewhere!
  2. We went "off the route" three times.  First after Jules found a bridge closed, we took a direct route to Springfield, KY.  We cut some distance off.  Second we took an alternate route out of Pueblo to the Royal Gorge area based upon information that the official route had no shoulder to ride on.  I think it was slightly shorter than the official route.  Third, we took an alternate route into Astoria.  We’d  added distance by camping 4+ miles off route.  The Adventure Cycling Association allows that as long as we rode 90% of the mapped route, we’ve completed it.  We met that condition.  
  3. We heard from Richard and Mike, you may remember them as two of the three cyclists we met after they started the second half of their Transamerica ride in Newton, Kansas.  We camped several nights at the same locations, especially in Kansas.  They just finished in Florence, Oregon.  Florence is the endpoint of an alternate route.  They’re headed back to Texas tomorrow.
  4. I’ll be adding information to the daily entries after I get home.  In particular I’ll try to put links to information where I can.  I’ve never quite figured out how to do this with the phone app!  This may not be of interest to those of you who followed along.  This is more for anyone planning to do this themselves.

5 comments:

Unknown said...

You should add more information in the form of a book...seriously.

Unknown said...

Anxious to see your final stats.

Unknown said...

Book would be good. But even better, a movie or mini series starring TOM Hanks and STEVE Martin...

Unknown said...

Congratulations to you both! Glad you will be on your way home safe and sound

Unknown said...

And has been the most enjoyable blog. Glad everyone is home safe and sound we can all breathe a sigh of relief. What a great adventure