Rich's Transcon, Summer, 1997.
This page describes a 4500 mile bicycle trip I took in the Summer of 1997. I
left from Denver, Colorado, went Northwest to Glacier National Park, Montana,
and then went East thru Ontario to Acadia National
Park, Maine, where I adopted TC.
This web page is being converted from 300MB CD-ROM to 10MB Internet format. Some
links do not work.
- The Trip
- A short poem in which I tried to capture how I felt upon returning from
the trip.
- Why?
- My top reasons to do a transcon.
- Map
- The route I took, along with callouts of some trip highlights and
locations.
(Click on a callout to see the thumbnails for that section of the
trip.)
- Newspaper
- The scanned-in newspaper article about us that appeared in the Perham
Enterprise Bulletin on July 17th, 1997.
- Pictures
- The trip pictures and dialog.
(Click on each picture to see the next
picture in sequence.)
- FAQ
- Frequently Asked Questions I heard upon returning from the trip, and their
answers.
- Equipment
- A list of the equipment I brought with me.
- Journal
- The text of my daily journal.
- Songs
- Songs from the trip, recorded in radio quality.
Click on one of the areas listed in the top left frame, or on one of the
thumbnails shown in the bottom left frame. This webpage is best viewed at
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