"It is by riding a bicycle that you learn the contours of a country best,
since you have to sweat up the hills and coast down them. Thus you remember
them as they actually are, while in a motor car only a high hill impresses
you, and you have no such accurate remembrance of country you have driven
through as you gain by riding a bicycle."
- Ernest Hemingway

There is a sense of awe and wonder at the mere concept of riding a bicycle over 3,120 miles in 52 days. Seriously, I can't even think of it in that way right now. It just seems too big, too much. My mind cannot comprehend the distance. I have driven across country and back a few times and that seemed fairly grueling at times ! So, the challenge presents itself and rolls out before me like a red carpet all the way across the US and back home. "this little pig went to see the USA...home again,home again, jiggedy jig"

Itinerary
Schedule subject to change.

Date	City, State	Miles
Prep
6/6	Santa Monica, CA	0
6/7	Santa Monica, CA	0
6/8	Church/Day Off	0
WK 1
6/9	Palmdale, CA	68
6/10	Lucerne Valley, CA	74
6/11	Twenty Nine Palms, CA	66
6/12	Parker, AZ	110
6/13	Aguila, AZ*	84
6/14	Phoenix, AZ	78
6/15	Church/Day Off	0
WK 2
6/16	Payson, AZ	86
6/17	Show Low, AZ	88
6/18	Quemado, NM	95
6/19	Soccoro, NM	105
6/20	Capitan, NM*	93
6/21	Roswell, NM	70
6/22	Church/Day Off
WK 3
6/23	Plains, TX	101
6/24	Post, TX	85
6/25	Old Glory, TX	86
6/26	Graham, TX	94
6/27	Fort Worth, TX	88
6/28	Dallas/Fort Worth	55
6/29	Day Off/Red Oak, TX	0
WK 4
6/30	Day Off/Red Oak, TX*	0
7/1	Mineola, TX	91
7/2	Jefferson, TX	79
7/3	Spring Hill, LA	65
7/4	Camden, AR	65
7/5	Pine Bluff, AR	72
7/6	Day Off/Church	0
WK 5
7/7	Marvell, AR	86
7/8	Memphis,TN	91
7/9	Jackson, TN	81
7/10	Dickson,TN	99
7/11	Nashville, TN*	40
7/12	Nashville, TN	50
7/13	Church/Day Off	0
WK 6
7/14	Carthage, TN	52
7/15	Warburg, TN	95
7/16	Knoxville, TN (Church)	45
7/17	Kingsport, TN	92
7/18	Tazewell, VA	84
7/19	Blacksburg, VA	76
7/20	Church/Day Off	0
WK 7
7/21	Lynchburg, VA	94
7/22	Charlottesville, VA	67
7/23	Warrenton, VA*	70
7/24	Washington D.C.	50
7/25	Day Off	0
7/26	Washington D.C.	50
7/27	Church/Day Off	0
52	TOTALS	3120