On the Road... Again... the BIG RIDE!

The planning is finally done... the route is done (at least for now)... The Sprinter RV is pretty much ready to go... work is winding down... It's less than a week and we head toward Oregon to meet up with our nephew, Nicholas on May 27th in Portland and on May 29th we will start the Ride Across the USA from Florence, OR.  Just under 4000 miles and what will seem like a zillion feet of climbing (over 207,000 feet per ridewithgps.com).... At least 49 days of riding over 2 months..

This should be quite the adventure.  From the Oregon coast, through the Cascade mountains, the mountains of Idaho and Montana, Yellowstone National Park, Jackson Hole, Wyoming, the Colorado Rockies, the Royal Gorge, getting through western Kansas as fast as possible, visiting family in central Missouri, riding 2 ferries on the back roads of Kentucky, visiting Mammoth Cave, crossing the Cumberland Gap, riding the Blue Ridge Highway and finishing on the beach at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina (or at least that is the plan).

Along the way we have planned to visit the capitals in OR, ID, MT, CO, KS, MO (a given), and TN.