Our epic voyage West to East USA. Several years before we rode this epic route, Stef watched a documentary of a TV presenter who rode and documented his Trans America trip.
This inspired Stef to put it on his bucket list.
Of course I couldn’t let him go alone so we planned to ride it in 2020.
Then came the COVID 19 Pandemic just as we were ready to start…. We postponed until 2022 and this is the blog I wrote, mainly for my father’s benefit as he is not on social media.
123.11km. 1,271m ascent. 6h16 ride time After an excellent night’s sleep in the superb church hostel in Sebree we were ready for a big ride It started fairly flat, it was cool and the only thing against us was the wind (all day) so a good start and we had plenty of opportunity to fill…
The generosity of the people her in the USA keeps on surprising me! We arrived here at the First Baptist Church in Sebree which has an irreproachable reputation anyway, but we were greeted by a one of the congregation and he showed us where we could sleep etc. He also asked us if we liked…
73.24km. 678m ascent. 3h56 ride time Today we needed a shorter day because we have been pushing quite hard. As it turned out we had a strong headwind so not as easy a day as we had hoped for. Anyway the weather was perfect (except for the wind) and Kentucky is a beautiful green State…
127.04km. 1,481m ascent. 6h38 ride time Up at 05:30 to get an early start just to hear the thunder and a huge storm outside our window. We decided to postpone our start until after the rain had eased. Neither Stef nor I were feeling particularly vigorous this morning despite a good nights sleep and decent…
5,272km ridden (78%). 38,713m climbed (69%). 267hrs riding 1800km and 21,486m ascent to go.
We left our mini-hostel, which we shared with Bill, (free for cyclists and air-conditioned) early to get breakfast at Casey’s in Chester because they open early and the coffee is actually good. 😊 We had a choice to either take the inland route or go down to the Mississippi and follow it for several kilometres…
104.58km. 1,027m ascent. 5h02 ride time Following a good night’s sleep in our motel and good food at supper we set off just after 07:00 and it was the first morning under 20C since a long, long time. A beautiful morning and again lots of hills, some pretty steep but none very long 👌 We…
118.25 Km. 1,636m ascent. 6h28 ride time New elevation gain record today 👏🏻 Today went pear shaped! I had booked a motel, supposedly in Lesterville, but Google tricked me into a ‘near-by’ motel which was not far away by car but 33 km all the same and 500m ascent on top of our 83km and…
68.30km. 692m ascent. 3h17 ride time I forgot to mention that we caught up with a TransAmerica Race rider yesterday on one of the longer hills 😱 To bring things into perspective: he started 05/06/2022 (we started 02/05/2022) and he had been riding all night that day, so it’s not because we are super fast,…
As we are riding early morning to around midday, it gives us time to think about useless information to share on the blog I ride with a cadence of around 70/min which means on our TransAmerica trip I have turned my pedals 1,037,400 times up to now How fascinating is that? Leave a comment if…