Bicycle from Sea to Shining Sea
3 Cross Country Bike Tours-USA
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and support from Lydia, Neil rearranged his life and made the time so that he could pedal his bicycle every inch from the Pacific Ocean at San Francisco, California to the Atlantic Ocean at Portsmouth, New Hampshire.
A few people have pursued the crossing as a means of losing weight. That could be dangerous. Day after day physical demands on the body burn huge volumes of calories and definitely build great muscle mass. The danger is in not sustaining sufficient nutrition for the body’s accelerated needs, thereby risking weakness and sickness.
Andy Hiroshima from Sacramento, California commented that some use the cross-country cycling experience as a way to escape something. Perhaps they are trying to make sense of, adjust to, or accept and overcome a loss, sadness, or tragedy in their lives. Bicycling is excellent therapy; it is a way for a person to clear his or her mind.
For some, the coast-to-coast bicycling provides a sense of freedom and independence – the American spirit. Stirred by vicariously living as the cowboys on television, whom they grew up with, the journey can satisfy that frontier spirit. It can fulfill a sense of rugged individualism. Being out there on a bicycle, powered by one’s own physical capabilities, settles restlessness. Bicycles provide autonomy and mobility; things Americans love.
Shock of 9/11 – Why My First Crossing
My first experience bicycling coast-to-coast across the United States was in 2002. My friend, Susan Chapman from Frederick, Maryland, proposed that we bicycle across the country. The unbelievable horror of the World Trade Center towers coming down was the motivator. Thoughts of, “If not now, then when?” and “Why
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