A whole year off after two tough and rewarding years of Teach For America, and before the anticipation of four long years of med school, I started getting antsy. Antsy to get up and move and see the world and do some traveling. My first ideas for traveling this summer were to go to south east Asia. Nothing really panned out. I kept fiddling with some different ideas and somehow landed on the idea of cycling across the country. I originally planned on the northern route (Adventure Cycling Association) from NH to OR but became a bit unenthused by the idea of riding across the entire Midwest. I live in the Midwest, and can fairly say its all the same. Having set out to spend 2 months on my bike, I only needed to choose a route. After some brainstorming I decided on Calgary to Vancouver and then down the Pacific Coast Highway to San Francisco with a little turn into Yosemite and Lake Tahoe to make a good even 2500 miles. I've always been better at accomplishing goals when they are nice even round numbers.
