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Subject: x country travel routes
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Date: Mon, 4-Nov-85 07:42:29 EST
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At 400 miles per day you will spend all day on the bike. And based on
my travels you can probably get to the Rockies in 5 days at that rate.
I've never been further west than that except for on an airplane. For
a more leisurely stop and take a look at a couple of things try 300
miles per day.

As for route what is the time of year. As an ex Minnesotan I highly
recommend New England to Minneapolis via Canada and the top of Lake
Superior. Or cutting through Sault Ste. Marie and upper Wisconsin to
Minneapolis.  Driving Chicago is the pits! And on a bike is double
pits when much more attractive routes for only marginal added distance
are available. 

There is a state park (Gooseberry Falls I believe) half way down the
Lake Superior shore that you can camp in right on the shore of Lake
Superior. Well worth it. And I've also camped on the shore of Lake
Huron outside of Sault STe. marie. 

South Dakota has the Badlands. If you only do the trip once then pass
that way. Nebraska, Kansas, Iowa, and western Colorado you should
plan on a maximum mileage day and hustle through it somewhat quickly.
Oops, make that eastern Colorado.

But 10, 10, and 10 days sounds doable.

Denny Johnson