Posts under ‘Planning - struggles and triumphs’

by Tommy  Viducich
On the road, we meet a lot of people and they usually have a lot of questions. One of the most common questions we are asked is “how are you going to afford this trip?” It is a good question; a year spent travelling seems like a costly endeavor. The [...]

by Sara Dykman
With four months until the official bike49 kick off in May, Tommy, Aaron, and I were “killing time”. Sure there was planning to be done, but one can only plan so much. We were tired of talking about bike touring, and just needed to go bike touring. As soon as [...]

One of the purposes for keeping a blog is to simply document the planning and riding stages of our trip. We’ve surfed the web plenty while preparing for bike49 and learned a little from everyone. We hope our site can be a reference for people planning a commute or short bike tour or even planning [...]

by Tommy Viducich
Things Are Moving! Firsts fly by.
Now that 3/4ths of the bike49 crew are unemployed college graduates, the planning of bike49 has launched into full effect. Whoo Hooo! When we conceived this idea almost two years ago, the realities of a 14 month, 15,000 mile bicycle journey were far off. We are beginning to [...]

Could it be 2am yet again? How many nights must I stare at this screen, clicking back and forth, slowly programming my way to victory? As I write this post, the website is still not up to my standards, but closer ever.

The website is over a year in the works. It has changed hands a half dozen times over the last year, each person sculpting, adding, and learning from the process. I was the last to take it on. Like many of bike49’s planning projects, what starts off simple becomes a way of life.