Dad and Grad: Midlife crisis or summer vacation?
Trans-Am ride blended with western Northern Tier
4,395 miles (7,073 km) over 87 days from May 12, 2009 to August 6, 2009
Copyright © 2009-2012 By Patrick Lamb
Table of Contents
Virginia
- Finally Started!: Is this trip snakebit?
- Rolling at last! Glad to be on the road
- An easy day: Into Ashton, VA
- Downtown Mineral: Loaded up again
- A town too far: From the “wilderness” near White Hall, VA
- Easy Day: (Does crossing the Blue Ridge count as easy??)
- Over the Blue Ridge Parkway, through Vesuvius, VA: (heavy on pictures)
- Troutville, VA (Just barely)
- Tour brochure perfect day past Christiansburg, VA
- Short but hard day into Fort Chiswell, VA
- Losing sight of horizontal: Over the mountains, into Damascus, VA
- Leaving behind goodness: Damascus, VA to Council, VA
Kentucky
- Too many ridges! Into Virgie, KY
- Ridges, ridges, ridges into Hindman, KY
- Ugh: to Buckhorn Dam
- Pretty decent ride to Snug Hollow, KY, east of Big Hill
- Smooth sailing: short day to Berea, KY
- Different kind of riding to Harrodsburg, KY
- Just rolling along into Bardstown, KY
- Fixing things: got past Buffalo, KY
- Turned out to be a pretty good day: to Rough River Dam state park (KY)
- Rain or sweat? into Utica, KY
Illinois and Missouri
- A long day into Cave in Rock, IL
- Dog day! To Goreville, IL
- Let’s take it easy and just ride to Murphysboro, IL
- Into Missouri! Near Ozora, MO
- More miles than cars going into Farmington, MO
- Middle of the Ozarks: Ellington, MO
- Cooked. but made it to Summersville, MO, anyways
- Long ride, but good: to Hartville, MO
- The next day: into Marshfield, MO
- MO humidity: Frog-march into Everton, MO
Kansas
- A long ride to Kansas: Pittsburg, to be precise
- Another humid and hot day into Chanute, KS
- We found it! Eureka!
- Short day, but not easy: El Dorado, KS
- What a difference a day makes: Hutchinson, KS
- Back to usual: Larned, KS
- The cool of the day: Bazine, KS
- The heat of the day: Scott City, KS
- Another day, another time zone: Tribune, KS
Colorado
- Out of Kansas, into Eads, CO
- Look! Rockies! (and rain!?): Ordway, CO
- Pueblo, CO: Almost back to the mountains
- Real close to Rockies: Canon City, CO
- Oh, Momma! to Guffey, CO
- From 0 to 11,542 in 7 weeks: Over Hoosier Pass to Breckenridge, CO
- Easy coasting to Silverthorne, CO
- Downhill! Hot Sulphur Springs, CO
- Weather, climbing, weather, weather: Walden, CO, and happy to be here!
Wyoming
- A good, long coast down to Saratoga, WY
- To the big town! Rawlins, WY
- In which I have good things to say about cars, after riding a bike to Sweetwater Station, WY
- An easy day to Lander, WY
- Whew! climbed to Dubois
- What a ride! into Teton National Park
- Yellowstone! Grant Village
- More Yellowstone: past Old Faithful to West Yellowstone
Montana (and Idaho)
- Great riding down the Madison River to Ennis, MT
- Another gallon of water got me to Dillon, MT
- Two more passes: Jackson, MT
- Last Divide crossing? Sula, MT
- A great downhill ride! Lolo, MT
- Short, easy ride to ACA headquarters, Missoula, MT
- Climbing a little: Seeley Lake, MT
- Eating our way north to Big Fork, MT
- Peregrination’s Penultimate Pinnacle: Apgar, MT, Glacier NP
- Headed west again to Whitefish, MT
- Harder than it looks! Eureka, MT
- Whut ‘cha gonna do? Ride into Libby, MT
- Out of Montana! Clark Fork, ID
Washington
- Around Pend Oreille to Newport, WA
- Short ride, not too hard: Ione, WA
- Foothills: Kettle Falls, WA
- Not so bad after all: near Republic, WA
- Long and hot! To Omak, WA
- Desert, mountain, desert to Winthrop, WA: just plain hot
- Last passes, last gasp: North Cascades National Park near Newhalem, WA
- So much cooler! into Sedro-Woolley, WA
- Finished! Anacortes, WA
Ride end notes
- Unpacking List: Things that I/we carried across the country
- Random Notes: Stuff that might be helpful or interesting
