Bike Touring on the East Coast: Visiting Yorktown and Jamestown

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.

Wednesday, April 22, 2015

Visiting Yorktown and Jamestown

Yorktown is the place where the British General, Lord Cornwallis, was defeated, and ultimately surrendered, by combined American and French forces commanded by General Washington, effectively ending the war for independence although a formal treaty, the Peace of Paris, was not signed until 1983 in Paris. Jamestown is the sight of the first permanent British settlement in America, with its first landing in 1607.