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The trip was a success! It took a bit longer than planned, and I changed my route and itinterary quite a few times, but I made it. This page is the main directory for all of the information on the trip. You'll find some background information, the equipment I used, route planning, a training log, and a day-by-day account of the trip, including text and pictures (and video!). Click on the subcategory buttons above to go to the appropriate pages.
I'd like to thank a lot of people for their ideas, equipment, and help: my sister Louann, Cathy Ahrens, Robin Read and Dan Squiller, David and Holly Hughes, David Stroup, and many others. I met a lot of wondeful people along the way, and the people were probably the best part of the whole adventure.
Also, thanks go out to Mountain Bike Heaven in Sedona, Rex and Cheryl Willis, of SpokeFolks Cyclery in Chanute, KS, for introducing me to Yodelling Katy Lopeman, Stephen Nesius for his great maps of the route from Washington to Annapolis, Nancy and Jim Scanlon for copies of their pictures of me on the Baltimore-Annapolis bike trail, Heather Petrik for making sure I didn't have to worry about my house, and Biomagnetic Technologies, Inc., for letting me borrow their color flatbed scanner.
Update: 25 February 1998
I'm quickly coming up on the one year anniversary of my decision to go on my trip. The memories of the trip are still very fresh in my mind. Every night when I close my eyes, I usually have an image of some event or scene from my trip flash through my head. I can remember amazingly minute details, and these images flash into my mind with no rhyme or reason. Sometimes I wonder to myself, "why did that just pop into my head!" :^) If I wanted to, I could probably sit down and relive the entire trip, minute-by-minute, in glorious gory detail.
