Really heading home now

Is 1:15 Tuesday night the 27th and in 6 hours I will be in a car going to LAX. My flight isn't till 11 but this is the ride I could get. I am getting a ride from Rachel who lives below Thom, Nathan, and David and also happens to be Davids girlfriend. Shes a pretty standup lady and I am glad I met her. Speaking of meeting people, Haley and Julia are also most top notch, they made me a Snickers cake to send me off and it was delicious. Over all LA has been really nice. For the most part nice weather, no obligations, friendly people. I didn't really do very much or anything really to be honest. I sat on the couch a lot, sat outside on the couch and read, and I ate a lot of peanut butter, and I wouldn't have had it any other way. Thinking about it I feel its almost humorous concidering how I have been here twice since I started college for over a month total and I have done 0 LA things. Anywho. Hallowen!! This weekend! I just love the fall and can't wait to bundle up with some real weather.

See erybody real soon,
Love Arthur.

Home

I have been hanging out in LA and it is great, just relaxing and whatnot but everything must end. Thats why I have bought my ticket home and it is for the 28th. Yay!



See yall in a bit,
Arth

LA?

Yes. Leaving any second.

Dr. R Kohl-A

Been a little while

I am still in San Francisco but will be leaving Monday morning by way of Craigslist rideshare with a guy named Fred in a pickup. It was crazy how moany offers there were to get really anywhere on the west coast last minute. I had to be a little bit more choosy as to find something that would fit my bike but I called him and he seemed real cool, willing to pick me up from where ever in the city and drop me off at Thoms place in LA. Anypoo's this last week and so is SF has been amazing. I haven't really done much either, just biking around trying to get fermilier with the areas I will be spending my times in. Yesterday Willie texted me saying that my brother had sent me a pakage to his place and I could come pick it up... Goggles!! They are pretty boss and better late then never.

Sooo, yeah if you are reading this I probably miss you or you are a vauge aquantice of mine who is interested in my journey and either way thank you. More to come from LA.

Hunter.

Naw kidding,

Arthur.

Strictly Hardly Bluegrass

There is a festival going on right now at Golden Gate park called Strictly Hardly Bluegrass Festival and it is a hoot. Two of my friends I was biking with for a little bit in Oregon were heading here for it and we exchanged numbers so we could meet up in the city, and what do you know. I am standing on to the left of the stage waitin for MC Hammer(!!!) and I get a phone call from Tom asking where I am, I tell him and we meet up after MC Hammer(I KNOW!!!!) he is still with Chris, an English bloke who started biking from the tippy top of Canada and is heading down to the Tipy bottom of the South A. I hook onto their group of folks who are some good people for the rest of the day. We go to get some lunch and we happen on a nice looking dum sung(?) place and head in. There were ten of us so someone tells the woman just to keep the buns and dumplings coming, and that is exactly what she did. Sooo much food and she brought veggie ones me and wow it was awesome. We then ask for the bill and she is like naww, "3 dollars a person" what?! this was like a big old legit meal for 10 people for 30 dollars. We end up paying like 40 because it was just to convenient, she tried to not take the 10 extra but we insisted on it. We walked back to the festival and watched some funky music for the rest of the day, I guess there were some big names playing but the only one I was familiar with was Lovit. But Boots from The Coup was invited up during someone elses set and he rapped a bit which I was surprised and pleased to see. Oh, all this is going on on my 21st birthday. Right, so that evening I meet up with Willie and his friend Elliott and Chris is kickin it with us because Tom is going to some show that costs money and Chris didn't want to go. Chris didn't have his bike with him but Willie Elliott and myself all did. Have no fear, me and Chris double road through the streets of San Francisco and it was awesome. I felt like a coxswain again sitting at the back pushing him through it. We went to a cafe first and WOAH! Chris, the guy I Couch Surfed with in Eureka was there! He wished me a happy birthday and we talked for a bit and then we headed to a bar near Willies place that has an oldies night once a month and it was a blast. It was quality oldies, not like an oldies radio station. I danced a lot and then when they closed me and Chris went next door and got some Mexican food and tried to figure out how he was going to get to where he was spending the night. At the Restaurant there was a nice lady who was also turning 21 and we talked about that for a minute and then she helped us get where we thought we were going. Us, her and her boyfriend started walking to the bus and waiting for it but they decided to get a cab and I think Chris went with them and got back alright because I didn't get any calls from Tom But I am going to meet up with them today so I will hear how that turned out. I biked slowly back to Mulligans place and slept very well. Yesterday was pretty chill, I slept in and then Maya and I walked downtown to see what the Love Fest was all about. I got a smoothie on the way and then some dried mango, ohh yeah. We got to the fest and were both pretty glad we hadn't made a day of the place. It was a sea of 16 year olds wearing bright colors and awkward sunglasses and dudes with arms way to big for their size. That night Mull and Maya were sitting for the kids upstairs so I explored a bit and found Mission Pie, a pie place in the mission. I ended up hanging out there for a few hours reading and talking with one of the employees named Alex. I told him bout my trip and how I would be coming out here in the spring and would be looking for a place and he was all. Cool, I have a house in Potrero and there is a good chance a roommate or two will be heading out in the spring. He gave me his number and told me to call him and check in in December. Everyone is so friendly so far! 

I am heading back to strictly hardly to see Billy Bragg Dr Dog Booker T Aimee Mann and Neko Case real soon so yall have a good day!

Lalalarthur

1st flat

Today I was biking to a coal movie which I was invited to by some of the GP people here and what do you know, I get a flat. I had a patch kit on me but my pump was in my trailer so I started walking. I passed a bike shop and figured I had better get it taken care of before the movie or I would be stuck walking my bike pretty far kinda late. I pull in and ask to borrow a pump, I take off the wheel and tire, find the whole, which was caused by a big nail which I also found, and then decided I didn't have time. I know how to fix a flat but have never done it before.I brought it into the shop, paid 10 dollars for a new tube and they put it on. I hurry out now with 8 minutes to get to the screening at the MOMA and three blocks later I get my second flat of the trip. Over 1000 miles with no flats and I get 2 in a row the only time I have been in a hurry this whole time. anyways, I ride on the rim to the MOMA and meet the Alexa the Greenpeacer who invited me with a minute to spare. The movie was real powerfull focusing on mountain top removal and was followed by a question and answer session which was also helpful but wow, the reception after was amazing. If I wern't in a new city on my own and wanted to drink . But even so, the ordorves(?) were crazy! and they just kept comming arouund with great treats! I then carried my bike to Mulligans place in hopes that she had a pump, which we couldn't find and then watched American Splender with her and her roommate Maya. I walked back to Willies around 2 O clock, it was a nice walk with the exception of a cop pulling over and asking if I had seen a crazy woman and then driving really slowly looking for formentioned crazy woman.

I think I am going to like it here,
ArthYouAre

Still here

Like I said there is more to my story since my last post. I ended up staying at that coffee shop for a pretty long time, it was in the town Mendicino and there was a nice campground just a few miles south so that ended up being a pretty short day. Then the next day I headed out to Galalala(?) to camp when what do you know, my trailer breaks. So I hitch a ride to Manchester where there was a nice hardware store and rig up something I hope will work. I bike the last 15-20 miles to this nice campground and share the site with a girl/woman from Quebec. She shares her hummus and I call up some of the hostels in San Fran because she is poor with English, It was fun. The next morning I am a little worried about how my trailer is holding up after biking about 15 miles so I stop at a general store and the man tells me there is a bike shop in Bodega Bay, so I make a sign reading "Bodega Bay" and about an hour later after several "sorry no room" and whatnots a guy picks me up with a truck. He is only going like half way there but then he pulls over at a park to check on the water and decides the conditions aren't very good so what the hell he will drive me the whole way. What the conditions wern't very good for was diving and for most of the ride when he was talking about it and I was asking questions I assumed he meant scuba but turns out he actually just meant diving. He would dive down 30-50 feet for like 2 minutes and spear fish or collect some snail like thing of which I forget the name. Pretty cool stuff. So he drops me off at the bike shop, I bring my bike in, and the guy is all "Just sold what you would need" but he took a look at my rigup and deemed it a very good substitute for what had broke and that I shouldn't be to worried about fixing it and just to get a new piece when I get the chance. Having not planned to get to there that day I wasn't sure where to camp so I asked and he said the only real campground south of there was Taylor P something something and that was about 43 miles from town. So leaving Bo Bay a little after 3 I had some pushin to do to get there 'for it got dark. As soon as I started heading inland after the town the landscape changed dramatically. Big bare rolling hills, seemed like a totally different state. Oh, and the wind, it was hella windy and it would have been a perfect tailwind if I weren't going south east inland a bit. Anywho, I made my first wrong turn of my whole trip, or should I say wrong not turn, as Highway 1 took a 90 degree turn and I missed it. I went about 2 miles passed before realizing it. And those to miles out of my way were easy, downhill with a fast tailwind, getting back was crazy slow due to said wind and hill. I got back on route and proceeded to climb a few big climbs and descend a few big descents before arriving at my campsite with just enough sunlight to put up my tent. I woke up the next morning(this morning) with what looked like an easy 25 miles to the Golden Gate Bridge. I packed up slow and hit the streets a little after ten. It wasn't a hard ride at all with exception of a big hill but it was definitely a change of scenery. After the first 5 miles it was pretty much all city riding. There were just continuous back to back little town/citys all the way to the bay. Again, not bad just different. I was biking up that big hill I mentioned when a guy came up behind me also biking and asked where I was coming from. I told him my story as we climbed the hill and asked for advice on the best way to get to the bridge. He told me to just follow him for most of the way cause he was going pretty close cause there is a pizza place he likes to go to for lunch and whatnot. I end up going to the pizza place and he insists on buying me lunch as a welcome to the bay area sort of thing. It was great. I biked over the bridge which was windy to say the least and then made my way to the Greenpeace office on 17th st. Got introduced around to some of the GOT people and then spent the rest of the day reading and relaxing around the city.

Hope alls well
Arthurs.

San Francisco

So here I am. I am sitting in the Greenpeace office right now and they let me check my email and whatnot, very kind of them. My fingers are really tired from the biking so I think I am going to leave it at that for now but I will post a bigger update soon.

Barthur?

Fort Bragg

Well the biggest hill on the coast is behind me but it is anything but smooth sailing. I am camping at MacKerricher State Park tonight and am in a coffee shop in town right now. Last night was Crazy! There is a festival that started today called Earth Dance and lots of 'travlers' were camping at the park I was at. It would have been a lot better had I not just biked 55 miles in 95 degree weather. Anyways, yesterday morning was amazing, winding through the Redwoods. I did't get many pictures but oh well. Well, last night I tried to go to bed around 9 but that was a no go, there were fire dancers outside my tent, so I got up and watched for a while. Bout 1030 I tried again, and this time some people set up camp at my site right when I was falling asleep. They quieted down around 1230. I am about 4 days to SF and I can't wait.

wolp wolp,
Arthur

California

So here I am! I camped in Brookings and in the morning packed up, biked to the border of Or/Ca, made a sign reading Eureka and waited at a stoplight for like 10-15 minutes before a guy pulled over in a truck and offered me a ride a good half way there. He dropped me off at his town near a gas station and wished me luck, I got a sub from subway and made a new sign because I left my other one in my rush to pack up and stood at the lights again. This time it was less then 5 minutes before a friendly looking guy pulled up in an old Cadi. I was unsure if al my stuff would fit in but he was confident, so we fit it all in the back of his car and we went to Eurkea. I wanted to get to Eureka so badly because I had set up some couch surfing with a couple who lived there and I was/am pretty beat from all the hills and sun a whatnot. Chris and Savanna are extreamly nice and hospitable and I enjoyed my time here a whole bunch. So I get dropped off by the very talkitive cadi owner at the Co-Op in town and I call up Savanna to see whats up. She was at work but was about to take her lunch break so I met up with her there. I then called up Greenpeace because it had been a week and low and behold she was all "Yeah you got it, swing by when you are in town and I can give you the info." Sweet! A biker I had been travling with for a few days was telling me about this big folk fest in San F on the weekend of the 1st 2nd and 3rd ( my 21st birthday weekend) and I was really excited for that and then Chris tells me about this big electronic music parade/dance party which goes on the same weekend and Bam I look it up and LovEvolution is on Oct 3rd with stuff going on the entire week before, so now I am supper pummped to get to the city because I get to look for a room to sublet and explore where I will be spending at least 3 months and yeah. So it is cold and damp out now but it should dry up pretty soon when the sun cooks off the rest of the fog and I will head back out on the road but I am worried that the excitement of getting to SF will cause me to hitch a little more the I was planning on but we will see.

Yay puck,
Arthur.

Bandon Or

So Thursday I got a pretty late start and just ended up camping a few miles from where Linsey droped me off, I was the only biker there and was worried I had missed the biking pack. the next morning I biked about 40 miles to Honeyman state park. When I got there around 3 I was the only biker and got worried again. I went to the dunes which are awesome (pictues coming) and when I got back to the site some others were shifting in. That evening I had a nice chat with a retired man named John who does little loops back to his car and then drives to a different area and will do anouther loop, this way he avoids the big hills(mountians). I also met a lady who was about to start grad school at USO in Corvallis and was taking a quick bike tour while she had the chance. There was a fun couple heading to San Fransisco, I ended up staying up kinda late with them as he had bought a ukelale(?) from the guitar/bike store I will post a picture of when I get a chance. To top off the biker secton of the park was a woman named KC( spelled with other letters I just don't know them) She drove up from Utah and was doing the Oregon coast then heading back to work. The next day was my longest and hardest yet, I got a real late start due to rain and didn't leave the camp till round 1:30 then it was 55 miles to go to where I was planning on camping. When 6:30 rolled around I started to get a little scared and when the sun was thinking really hard about going to bed I started hitching. Luckily it wasn't quite as far as the woman who had given me the directions in the last town had said it was and I got into Sunset Bay state park just in time to set up my tent without my head lamp. KC from the night before was also there and we talked for a while, she shared her beans and rice with me which were delicious and it turns out she is from Milwaukee.This morning she headed out of camp a little before me, I was taking my time because the first 10 miles of the day was on a road called 7 devils road apropiatly named for 7 big hills spanning the 10 miles. Towords the end of the last desent I met up with her on the road. We desided to stop for luch in town where I am writting this on my buddy. I have another 35 miles to go totaling 60 miles miles for the day.

Skamper Pants,
Arthur

Ps. I am a libray now and made some changes to the post up there to add detail. I have about five miles to go to the campsite and the afternoon ride was beutiful. Nice wind at my back and me and KC stuck together and talked a bit on the bikes. It was a nice change of pace.

Biking again

So I am leaving Corvallis in the morning and am pretty pumped to get biking again. A week here was the perfect break and I am ready to move some more ground. I met a lot of fun people here and pretty much just relaxed and enjoyed everyday as best I could. I was kind of mapping out the coming days on bike and it looks like I will be getting into SF right around my birthday which is exciting but also a little unfortunate because I don't want to feel rushed in case I want to hang out someplace longer then expected or take some shorter days. I will have to work it out when if it becomes an issue I guess.

Sludge bucket,
Arthur.

Corvallis

I realize I haven't posted in a while so I thought I just just fill yall in.
After getting into Oregon it was a totally new type of trip, there were bikers all over the place. I got a nice coastal biking map with topography so I can really see what I am going to get into each day. And the company has been a welcome change from Washington, I stayed kinda with the group I met in Astoria for a few days, I think we camped together for 4 nights at state parks right on the coast and was really impressed with how nice the parks were. It was really motivational to have fermilier faces along the way during the day, we never really biked together but I would come around the corner and Rich and his wife would be standing near their bike at a seanic overlook or something making new friends and having a blast, I can only hope that when I start back up in the next day or two I bump into more friendly people like them. Wellll, in Lincoln there is a lake called Devils lake and there is a park with the same name but it happens to be right in the city and the hiker/biker campsite was literally in someones backyard (I will post pictures when I am more motivated) and the next morning I went to my friends campsite to say farewell since I was stopping in Newport and they were continuing on but as it would they had walked to my site and we missed each other. The bike ride that day was about 25 miles with one moderate sized hill but nothing to bad. I read on the beach for a while and then Lindsey got there, we walked for a while and then got an amazing dinner at this really cool cafe with a pully system to get all the food and such upstairs to where the open mic was going on. So now for the past few nights I have been at Lindseys and it is really nice.

Hope all is well and I look forward to seeing everyone again,
Arthur.

The coast

Wow today was quite the ride but I will get to that later. After Raymond I kept heading south. I few miles down the road I got to south Bend and acording to the waitress at the diner I had lunch at there was a nice campground just a few miles past the town. South bend has a 'big' Labor day celebration which they were preparing for and acording to all the signs in town South bend is the oyster capital of the world. Anywho, walk my bike up a nice big hill and halfway up there is a sign saying that in 1/4 mile there's a county campground. I keep on pushing and finally get there. Once there I stop and ask a friendly looking couple who I should. They tell me to put the money in the box but if I want I can share a site with them. I take them up on it and set up my tent. It is a nice site and they feed me in the morning, on a full tummy I head towards Oregon dreding the Astoria bridge which I will figure out later. Its raining a little bit when I leave but figure it will clear up, it doesn't. I am much closer to the coast and the wind is powerfull and the rain is blinding so i stick out my thumb. after about four miles a pickup pulls over ahead of me and seeming friendly I load my bike in the back. Best decision of my life, friendly guy they were and all but it wasn't till the bridge when I was really glad I took the ride. It's bout 4 miles long with no real shoulder, lots of debris, painful winds, and a 200 foot climb at the end. They drop me off in Astoria and wish me luck, the downtown is cute and it is definitly a nice change from the Washington towns I was getting used to. I met a German biker and a couple riding tandem from New England they are all heading to some state park to the north so I follow. the park was nice and 4 dollars for bikers, two more bikers got in a little after us and the 6 of us talked till dark when we decided to hit the tents. Rained last night but had stopped and the sun was shining by the time I wanted to get up, I packed up and started biking south on 101. The Oregon coast bike map has a cool hill marker along the side so I knew I had three big hills today and wow, clifs and water on one side forests or rocks on the other, I walked up most of all three concidering hitching aging but deciding against it. The rides down were fun but a little petrafying, I am now at the bottom of the third which was 600 feet 9 percent grade down and I saw a pub advertizing free WiFi, taking them up on it I am sitting outside on my Nokia. I have bout 4 mile to go to get to the state park I am staying at tonight and I expect to see at least a few of the faces I met yesterday there.

Till later,
Arthur

Passing through Raymond

Wow, camped at a really nice campground last night. The people running it were really nice and had a huge garden that they opened up to their guests. I had two big cucumbers and a nice tomatoe. This morning was a different story, started raining around midnight and kept on all morning. I was trying to wait it out in my tent but around 11 I figured I had better get started. Packing up in the rain is pretty horible, I thought I would wear my pack instead of strapping it to my trailer. Bad idea, I basically cried the entire 18 miles to Raymond from Artic where I spent the night. I ended taking it off and strapping it back onto the trailer. Long story whatnot I am finishing a 2 o clock meal in a diner that offers free WiFi and have really no idea where I am going to stop today.

Arthur.

Olympia

So I made it to Olympia yesterday eve for a total of about 45 miles biking. It really wasn't to bad until I started to rest that evening, then I could clearly tell I wasn't in shape. Hopefully as I continue it will become easier to get myself going in the morning. When I got into the city I popped into a B and N book sellers to use their free wifi and figure out how to get to Mike and Grace's place. There was a helpful woman sitting at the table next to me who could tell I was looking for something and offered her assistance. Turns out she grew up very close to where I was trying to get and gave me a very clear and direct route. I called up grace, told her I was close and on my way and headed out up and then down two huge hills over a bridge and finally I had to push my bike and trailer up the final hill to Grace's house. To say it was steep and long would not do it a pinch of justice. Grace showed me around the house which is adorable and perfect for them. Introduced me to the 5 chickens they are keeping out back and made sure I was comfortable then she had to run some errands which I was totally alright with because I needed to rest anyway. She returned with a friend and some veggies and we started to prepare some veggie fajitas for dinner. They were amazing with green red and yellow peppers, mushrooms, onions, and cucumbers, cheese, guacamole, and sour cream. And for the people who ate sea food they fried up some shrimp. We ate on the porch with a fire and marveled at the passing clouds. I am taking the day off from biking and Grace is showing me around the city. Right now we are at Evergreen because she needed to pick up some papers or something and I am using a library computer. It looks like I will be getting up tomorrow morning and head west on Hi 8 to a town called Elma Wa about thirty miles from Grace's. Then its just a short 20 mile ride to Aberdeen.

Word Juice,
Arthur.

Middle of my second day

I got started on Tuesday the 1st instead of Monday because I felt like it and kinda a late start on Tuesday as it was. I didn't get off the boat till round 4 and then started biking. The sun started to get me a little nervous around 630 so i started to keep a lookout for possible places to throw up a tent for the night. About an hour later after coasting down what felt like 3 miles of hill I reached a sign reading now entering Allyn. I passed a Shell station and half a block down was a small lot littered with paddle boats and kayaks. There was a sign with a phone numer to call, so i did and asked politely if I could pitch a tent for the night and be gone in the morning. He said he didn't see anything wrong with that and that was that. Oh and it was on a beutiful lake. I slept pretty well concidering it was my first time in a tent in quite a while and only time sleeping alone in one. Anyways, the next morning I got up, had some potatoes from the Shell and started biking. I will put up pictues when I get a chance.

Boogaloo,
A

Going to start biking tomorrow morning

My plan as of right now is to get on a boat tomorrow morning with my bike and head across the sound and then start pushing the peddles down hi 3 till I gett to 101.

I hope school is starting well for everyone,
Arthur.

Update

Looks like Google didn't like all the clicking that my ads were getting so they shut it down. Bummer but it's no big deal. Anyways all is going well, I am still in Seattle and loving it. It is a really nice city. I am planning on how i am going to get from here to the coast but it will all work out.

more later,
arthur

Seattle

I am in Seattle, I made it safely and am with Rose just checking in quick. I will have a more in depth train post in the coming days.

See ya everyboby

Heading to the train any minute now. My trailer is a lot more full then I was expecting it to be and I am pretty worried I am going to have to get rid of some stuff along the way but like I have been planning I will deal with it then.

Tomorrow morn

95% done packing and just got my rain coat. My dad is driving me to Milwaukee tomorrow morning for my train ride to Seattle. Once in Seattle I am going to kick it for a little while with Rose and Emily before heading up to Vancouver for the bike part of my journey. I will be bringing a Nokia N810

on my trip so anytime I snatch some WiFi from a shop or whatnot I can make some updates here.

Lil crash

So last Tuesday the day I posted the pictures of the bike and the trailer I was out on my bike in the evening and had a little unexpected meeting between the ground and my face. I went to the emergency room and got a few stitches and whatnot put in. I was wearing a helmet and didn't really hit my head anyways. Well, I got my stitches out today, my lips are still real swollen and my arm has a pretty bad abrasion but I think everything is healing nicely and it will not postpone my departure one bit.

Thanks a bunch.

13 days.

I leave on a train out of Milwaukee in thirteen days, s

hould be pretty exciting stuff. Oh I also have a bike and a trailer takes a lookskies.

This is what is up

*Warning*

Periods commas and paragraphs will appear pretty much where ever they please. If this makes reading what I am trying to say hard I have two recommendations, either don't read it and whatever, "boo you freak" or read it to out loud pretending that it is me speaking with a funny voice.

Oahkay time for the words.

Alright so I guess I will explain a little about what I am going to do and why I am going to do it.

For some of you this is old news and if that is the case feel free to stop reading and wait until my journey has begun check back, but for anyone who is interested, please read on. I spent two years at UWL and definitely had a good time, just not at all what I wanted to get from a college education. I showed up at registration without ever visiting or really knowing anything about it besides the size of the school, the fact it was public, I knew it was new a river, and that on that gay marriage referendum from a few years back it was the only county besides Dane to be cool, and that was enough for me I guess. Well I showed up and started classes completely undecided as to my major focus or basic general interests on a college level. I figured I would take some classes and something would pop out and capture my attention. I did that for a year and still nothing, I probably wouldn't have gone back for a second year but the housing market near campus is a sprint from September and I had already signed a lease with for fresh dudes in November. I could have looked for a subletter but that would have been a lot of work and I wasn't positive I wanted to leave so I figured I would stick it through a little bit longer and see if things changed. Long story short and then long again, they didn't. I mean, you know, things changed. Plenty of things changed, there was a presidential election and I took new classes, but what I was looking for to change didn't. Sooo, in October of 2008 I was pretty set on calling it donesies after that year. I had a few ideas about what I would do in between not being at La Crosse and whatever I did after not being at La Crosse, such as. Moving to the inner city of a large city, get fake documents, and enroll as a senior in high school again. That one I was pretty excited for, but then I kinda worked out that it was crazy and I couldn't do it. Another idea was rooting up to NYC, but that wasn't enough of a plan for me and without and goals I figured I would get lost and it would be a waste of time. The idea I spent the most time elaborating on was a coastal trip, I wasn't sure which coast or the means by which I would make the trip but that was for future me to figure out. The first thing I decided on was it would be the entire west coast, there was always something about the northwest that really interested me. When I was maybe a sophomore in high school I really wanted to go to school in Vancouver just because I had a feeling it was a really cool place. Anyways, I would go from Vancouver to Tijuana. Walking isn't my thing and car would be lame, those were what I started with. Then I decided on an old moped, one of the really classy skinny ones. Where you can barely go fast enough for university ave, I spent the next few weeks/months (I have a hard time remembering time) planning out my trip with that as my plan. But the more I thought about it the more I realized that with the time I was allocating I could take a much slower mode of transport and really rely on myself much more. At that point it was pretty clear I was gunna be biking.

My plan as of now, Tuesday June 30th is to go to the Colorado the last week of July, come back to Madison after that, work for two more weeks and then start heading to Seattle. Right now I am not sure how I am going to get to Seattle, some friends are moving out there around that time and I might try to squeeze in with them in their van as I wont be bringing that much with me but they aren't sure when they will be going yet and if there will be room, another possibility is for me to take the train to the coast which would be fun but much more expensive. From there I will bum around the city for a while couch surf and see what I can. I am going to buy my bike when I get out there so I will be looking for a good bike co op or used store where I can get a good deal on something alright. Then once September rolls around I am going to take a fairy up into Canada more specifically Vancouver where my bicycle journey will begin.

Right now, if i leave when I want to and get on the road in time I will have to bike 15 miles a day to get to Mexico by the first of January, This is why I plan on biking 30 miles a day, this will allow me to take days off if I need to or if i to a good stretch in a row I could spend a week or so in a place if I like the area. 30 miles a day is not very much at all in a bike touring sense and I am planning on that with the slight expectation that I will be doing more then that once I get in better shape and used to the trip. Cause biking 30 miles leaves a lot of time of who knows what for the rest of the day. I am still trying to think of things to fill my time then, I am open to ideas.

50 days to go.

I am goig to use this site to make posts whenever I have access so people can check up on me and make sure all is going well. Or so they will know if it is not well I guess.