Oregon ⇒ Maine

Alright everybody here are the summer plans.  We’re going to ride our bicycles across the USA!  Starting July 26th in Cannon Beach, OR and finishing on or around Oct 20 in Bar Harbor, ME.  According to google it’s about 4077 miles.

Here’s our route from West to East.

Our route will mainly follow the Adventure Cycling Association’s Northern Tier, but we’ll be on parts of the Lewis and Clark trail and North Lakes trail during the trip.

Most of this route will be new country for us.  We’re really excited to see the Oregon coast and then into Oregon and Washington.  After that it’ll be into the mountains and head up to Glacier NP before turning east across the great northern plains.  Then it’s into the lake country of the upper Midwest before crossing into Canada to ride the northern shore of lake Erie and finally in time to see the fall colors of New England.

This trip will be completely self supported and we’ll mainly be camping along the way with the occasional hotel to clean up or get out of the rain.

Here’s Lindsey putting together her awesome new Surly Cross Check she’ll be riding.

If all goes according to plan we’ll be pulling into Bar Harbor, ME in and or a Oct 24th.  Can’t wait to get underway!