bicycling the Southern Tier, Poplarville MS to DeSoto National Forest - ...

bicycling the Southern Tier, Bogalusa LA to Poplarville MS, Haas-Cienda ...

bicycling the Southern Tier, New Roads LA to Franklington LA

bicycling the Southern Tier, Washington LA to Simmsport, partying with C...

bicycling the Southern Tier, Deridder LA to Willie's Washington Campgro...

bicycling the Southern Tier, Kirbyville TX to Deridder LA.wmv

bicycling the Southern Tier, Navasota TX to Silsbee TX

bicycling the Southern Tier, Kerrville to Navasota TX

Del Rio, Fort Clark Springs, Camp Wood, Vanderpool, Ingram, Kerrville

Alpine, Marathon, Sanderson, Langtry

El Paso, Hide Away Lakes, Sierra Blanca, Van Horn

Hillsboro, Lynn Nusom's Kitchen, Caballo, Hatch, Leasburg SP, El Paso.wmv

Silver City RV Park, San Lorenzo, Emory Pass.wmv

Blackjack NF campground,Buckhorn NM, Silver City NM, Gila National Forest

bicycling across Amerca

Crossing into Arizona, Blythe, Quartzite, Wenden, riding cross country o...

San Diego, Alpine, Jacumba, Ocotillo, El Centro, Brawley, biking across ...

bicycling the Pacific Coast, Doheney State Park, San Diego, taking the f...

bicycling the Pacific Coast, Ventura, Malibu, Los Angeles

Big Sur, Kirk Creek, bicycing the pacific Coast.wmv

Sunset Beach, Monterey, Bicycling the Pacific Coast

San Francisco, The Golden Gate Bridge, Half Moon Bay

Legget Hill, Bodega Bay.wmv

biking the Pacific Coast, crossing the California border, Redwoods.wmv

biking the Pacific Coast, Gold Beach.wmv

biking the Pacific Coast, a day off at Humbug.wmv

bicycling the Pacific Coast, Port Orford, Humbug.wmv

bicycling the Pacific Coast, Sunset Beach, Seven Devils Road.wmv

biking the Pacific Coast, Honeyman State Park

bicycle touring the Pacific Coast, Newport Oregon

bicycling Oregon Coast, Beverly Beach, Newport, Cape Foulweather

bicycling the Pacific Coast, Cape Foulweather

biking the Pacific Coast, Cape Lookout

bicycle touring the Pacific Coast, Tillimook, Nehelam Bay

bicycling the pacific coast, Fort Stephens, Nehelam Bay

Cape Disappointment, Astoria Bridge, Fort Stephens

bicycle touring. washington coast

the route

Using the latest in geo-synchronous satellites and borrowing time from super computers, (actually I used MS Paint) I have calculated my route with precision and accuracy. The bike is tuned up, the bags are packed. July can't come soon enough. This is roughly the route I will take (for the first year at least). I really want to spend time in the Dakotas, Utah, and northern Arizona, (and highway 50 across northern Nevada) but I'll wait to post that map in a year or so.

YouTube channel created for ThreeWheelJourney

ThreeWheelJourney on YouTube

Riding my bike

I’ve decided to put all my worldly possessions in storage and ride my bicycle for awhile. I’ve ridden several long distance bicycle trips in the past but this is the first time I will ride a bike on a continental scale. I don’t have a “set in stone” itinerary. The plan is to ride from the Seattle area, down the west coast, following a well known bicycle route ( US 101 ). At San Diego, I will take a few days off, and then point the front tire to the east, and follow the southern border, ending in Key West around New Year’s. From there, I will head up the eastern seaboard and then west, back to Seattle. I may decide at any point to stop, or if I’m having fun, I might ride to Alaska and then down into Central America ( I really like the idea of riding my bike in.... Yucatan, Belize, Honduras, Costa Rica, Panama, or deep into South America). This is going to be a bike ride, based on a very loose schedule and subject to change at the drop of a hat, or a change in the weather. My name is Dave, and I’m 46.

Velo Orange 60mm Smooth Fenders

My bike is a 21 year old Trek 950 mountain bike (they made’m good back in 1989). This was at a time when Trek made all their bikes in Wisconsin, before they sent all production to Asia. The bike is in excellent condition and I paid a lot of attention to the wheelset, because if you’re going to have any trouble on a long bike trip, chances are the wheels will fail first. On a previous bike tour, I learned that the hard way, and broke several spokes, and that experience taught me to always make sure the wheels are bomb-proof (or as bomb-proof as possible). Mavic 721 rims, with 36, Swiss DT spokes connected to XT hubs, and rolling on Schwalbe Marathon (1.5in wide) tires should run straight and true for quite awhile. I will tow a Bob, which is a single wheel trailer that has an excellent reputation. The Bob trailer was invented by a mountain bike rider (in Boise Idaho I believe) who wanted to take camping gear on single track trails. I bought mine about 2 years ago, and have pulled it over 3000 miles. In addition, I have Axiom panniers ("pannier" is bike-nerd-speak for “saddlebags) on the front rack. I’ll be providing more detailed breakdown, of the bike, components and gear during this journey.

This is an older picture without the Axiom panniers

I will be totally self-supported, carrying camping and cooking gear, and all other supplies. I also have with me some luxury items listed here.

Ukulele
10 X 25 binoculars and Peterson Bird Identification Guide
netbook
2.5 gallon solar shower
hammock (home-made)
books
mp3 player
camera

Please bookmark this page, or if you have a gmail (or Facebook, Twitter, Yahoo, AIM, NetLog or OpenID) account, feel free to follow this blog. You can select to receive emails when I update. When on the road, I will seek WiFi hot-spots or other connections to the net. I will attempt to update this journal on a regular basis, hopefully more than once a week.

Thanks and see you on down the road.

Dave

(I guess since this is the first post, I should throw out the "welcome mat")