im going to bike across the United States next summer..

[Armitage]

Originally posted by: Krassus
If i were to do this, i wouldn't plan at all. Just my destination. I'd leave the rest to chance. That would make the trip a lot more fun! Last thing you want is to spend a sum of dozens of hours looking through maps during the trip.

You've got to do some planning, especially out west where food & water stops can be few & far between. Up to Colorado, I'd generally look about a day ahead. From there on, to the pacific, especially in Montana, Wyoming & Idaho, i'd have at least a rough idea where I expected to be 3 or 4 days out. There's one stretch in Wyoming ... Rawlins to Lander I believe, that is about 140 any way you slice it. Although you could split that if you carried enough food and knocked on some doors for water (or filtered it). It's no big deal though ... if you've got good maps, it's a few minutes a day.

 

[brtspears2]

When you bike cross country, do you ride on the shoulder of the highway? Isn't this illegal? I'd just love to ride my bike from Riverside to Irvine on the highway.

 

[jurzdevil]

Originally posted by: minendo
Route 80 all the way. Don't know if I-80 is in Maine though.

Not really sure what backroads you could take to avoid the highways.

80 starts in nyc and then nj and then pennsylvania