During Spring 2015, a group of friends and I will be touring the entire east coast from Key West, Florida to Bar Harbor, Maine, approximately 2,500 miles in total, following the Atlantic Coast route created by the Adventure Cycling Association. This will be a self contained fully loaded bike tour which means I'll be carrying around 45 lbs. or so. I'm looking forward to experiencing the east coast like never before. With this blog, I plan to post pictures as we progress using the BlogPress APP on my mobile phone. Let's see how it goes and wish me luck. On a bike tour such as this, our daily challenges and not necessarily in this order, will be our physical condition, food, shelter, traffic, navigation, and weather. The above picture was taken during my Southern Tier crossing of the U.S. in spring of 2008. Bike touring requires a specific mind set and a passion.
Thursday, March 19, 2015
Ride to Marathon
Pictures from our first day to Marathon, mostly along US 1. Needless to say there was traffic but the scenery made it worthwhile. At the end of day, we are now 9 riders as 3 more join us in Marathon, the group is now complete.
Funny, our Big Bend tour also went through a town called Marathon. Mara THUN, as they pronounced it.
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