Index to Cycle Across America
This is the index to all the posts in my Bicycle Trip Across America story.
In the summer of 1996 I flew from Ireland with my bike to Boston.
The plan was to cycle to the west coast but being greedy I wasn’t planning on going there directly.
My plan was to cycle to the west coast via the turning points of Georgia, Oklahoma, Iowa, South Dakota, and Utah, before finishing in San Diego.
Things did not go to plan.
Each post consists of excerpts from my journal. The journal was mostly handwritten though some of it was me talking on tape and transcribed later.
1. The Beginning: From Boston through Rhode Island
2. 87 Miles in Connecticut
3. Fairfield, CT
4. Cycling into New York City
5. New York to Philadelphia: 110 miles
6. Philadelphia, PA to Ridgely, Maryland
7. Taping Whilst Cycling on Maryland’s Eastern Shore
8. From Ridgely, MD to Princess Anne, MD
9. Crossing the Chesapeake Bay Bridge Tunnel & Getting Killed
10. Virginia Beach: The Aftermath
11. Chester, Virgina: Unable to Walk
12. A New Bicycle
13. Should I Stay or Should I Go?
14. Begin Again: Back to the Crash Site
15. Long Grass: To Martin County, North Carolina
16. North Carolina: Oak City to Goldsboro
17. Fayetteville, NC: The Irish Are Everywhere
18. Fayetteville, NC to Bennettsville, SC
19. Taping Whilst Cycling in South Carolina
20. Columbia, SC to Aiken, SC
21. Through Augusta into Georgia
22. Taping in a Thunderstorm
23. Atlanta, Georgia
24. Stone Mountain to Tallapoosa, GA
25. Into Alabama to Pell City
26. Trying to Avoid Birmingham and Storms in Alabama
27. Dead Armadillos on the Road to Hamilton, AL
28. Deep South - Hey Look, There’s Elvis’ Birthplace
29. Mississippi: Tupelo to Oxford
30. Loving Rednecks on the Road to Crossing the Mississippi River
31. Across Eastern Arkansas From the Ridge
32. Brinkley to North Little Rock, AR
33. Glimpsing the Ozarks
34. Along the Arkansas River: Russellville to Fort Smith, AR
35. To Oklahoma and the Cherokee Nation
36. Fort Gibson, OK: Five Civilized Tribes and a Boa Constrictor
37. From Fort Gibson North to Jay, OK
38. Into State Number 17: Kansas
39. Columbus, KS to Elsmore, KS
40. Assault on Kansas City
41. Kansas City. Halfway Rest?
42. North. Beginning the 2nd Half
43. Northeast Missouri
44. Iowa
45. Nebraska
46. In the Nebraskan Corn: York to Hastings
47. Nebraska is a Big State
48. Kansas Again
49. Somewhere in the Middle of West Kansas
50. Kansas is a Big State
51. Dodge City
52. Ambush on Pancake Boulevard
53. Panhandles
54. The Texas Panhandle
55. The Way To Amarillo
56. Texas is a Big State
57. Lubbock
58. Pain in West Texas
59. Storm
60. Into New Mexico
61. New Mexico: Changing Landscapes
62. To Roswell, NM
63. The Rio Hondo Valley
64. The Tularosa Basin
65. White Sands
66. The San Agustin Pass
67. Old Mesilla
68. Deming, NM
69. Hurley, NM
70. Continental Divide
71. Arizona
72. Reservation
73. Apache Junction
74. Valley of the Sun
75. Leaving Phoenix
76. Southwest Dreams
77. Somewhere, Arizona
78. California
79. Algodones Dunes
80. Yuma Desert
81. Anza-Borrego Desert
82. Ocean
The trip will be published as a book edited to make it easier to read and with new sections added - for example many stories involving people which were not published in these posts. When? Latest plan is for towards teh end of 2010.
Eolaí gan Fhéile:
makes my ass sore thinking about it
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with regards to
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