By Matt Schiff
In the last month we’ve transitioned from the West to the Midwest.
Riding along through northern Nebraska we probably could have pretty well guessed as to where the 100th meridian lay. Aside from geographically dividing the country, the 100th meridian is a good divider between the arid and semi-arid West and the more humid [...]
Posts Tagged ‘planning’
Sep 13
Small talk about the weather
Jul 08
The Cheap Costs of High Livin’
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 [...]
Jan 26
Choosing to focus our efforts
By Matt Schiff
I first heard about bike49 during the summer of ‘08, sometime between the start of the Tour de France and working some hellishly hot job near the Salton Sea. From what Tommy told me, Aaron had been putting ideas to paper and enlisting Sara to make good on an old pact from the days [...]
Jan 09
Celebrating Firsts
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 [...]
