Bucket List: Bike Across America
Soon, it'll be easy and mostly traffic free! Bring the Kids!
When It’s Finished, The Great American Rail Trail Will Be The Longest Bike Trail In The USA
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The Great American Rail Trail is already half complete and open for visitors to begin the adventure of cycling across the country.
It will be the longest bike trail in the world when complete - being even longer than the 3,000-mile-long Great Divide Mountain Bike Route (from Canada to Mexico).
It will be some time before the Great American Rail Trail is complete, but there are many other smaller rail trails that are open for business. In Pennsylvania, visitors should explore the Ghost Town Trail and discover many abandoned coal towns lost to the forests after the coal mines and railroad were abandoned.
Learn more!
https://www.thetravel.com/will-the-great-american-rail-trail-be-the-longest-bike-trail-in-the-usa/?
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Bucket list alternate:
Get Yourself a DUTTON amphibious classic car! WATCH :)
This is a 1990 Dutton Mariner amphibious vehicle made by Tim Dutton Amphibious Cars, LTD in England. It is based on a Ford Fiesta platform and is really quite remarkable in its function and versatility. This particular example is seriel number D0101 which is the very first Dutton Mariner model ever produced by the company
This is awesome!
How To Take a HikeA guide to America's best day hikes
https://open.substack.com/pub/yuribezmenov/p/how-to-take-a-hike-americas-best-day-hikes?r=3vm3f&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web
It will be so great to not be on roads with cars. Took a bike trip to the beach from Portland OR (only about 100 miles), most of the trip is on US 26. There are some serious hills as you descend and lots of nice gravel on the sides where you are riding. So, you are flying down loooong inclines on gravel where you cannot practically slow down or stop (or burn out your brakes) and you cannot deviate from the gravel as it is a highway. If you can avoid crashing it is hella fun, but it was actually scary, and I wouldn't do it again (alone).