Bicycle from Sea to Shining Sea
3 Cross Country Bike Tours-USA
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We do not need to think about what, when, or where we will eat. The menu planning of what meats, produce, dairy, or other staples to buy is not our concern. The chores of looking through the aisles for those things on our grocery list, transporting them home, unloading, preparing, cooking, and cleaning afterward are eliminated.
We do not have to handle money. In the restaurants, when we are finished, we simply stand up and walk out. We are not concerned about receiving the check or what amount to tip the servers. The tour staff handles that. We simply walk away.
The tour organization makes the reservations for where we will sleep. They have the burden of locating addresses and phone numbers for those lodgings. If we were not traveling with a tour company, we would have to scour maps to decide whether a motel or campground location would fit in with our cross-country route. We would have to make those many phone calls coordinating each overnight place for each date and negotiate that the fees are within budget.
When we travel with a tour company, they are tasked with seeking an alternate when some convention, fair, or rodeo is gathering in the town, where we thought we would spend the night, but learn that all the lodgings have already been taken. As we travel, the tour staff has the responsibility of keeping track of the contact information for each of the chosen lodgings. While we are bicycling, the staff makes phone calls reconfirming reservations a few days before our arrival. It is the tour company’s concern to ensure that there are adequate food facilities within budget and within walking distance of each lodging place.
Our routine is simple: wake every day, put all our things back into our bag, and heave it onto the truck. We get breakfast wherever we are told to. Then we pedal away on our bicycles. We do not have to spend time studying maps to determine which roads we should travel, how that route will take us to the day’s end, how that distance
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