US Coast-2-Coast Cycle tour 2000 - Video

San Francisco to Miami
Feb 7th to May 1st 2000
Down the Pacific Coast Highway from San Fransico to San Diego.

Then eastwards through:
California
Arizona
New Mexico
Texas
Louisiana
Mississippi
Alabama
Florida

Reached Atlantic Ocean at St. Augustine in the Panhandle of Florida.
Then a leisurely 2 week ride down to Miami.

* Following the Adventure Cycling (formerly Bike Centennial) routes
* I spent my 40th birthday staying at a former lighthouse that is now a Youth Hostel with a hot tub
* Four Time zones
* 4,250 miles
* Deserts
* TEXAS - a quarter of the entire trip!
* Sand Storm battering
* Crossing the Mighty Mississippi river (it makes the Thames look like a stream)
* Detour down to New Orleans
* Bayou & humidity
* Gun scare! "We're from Biloxi man and we're partying" (shotgun goes off..!)
* Nearly got arrested in the Panhandle for having the wrong surname
(there was an arrest warrant out for a UK citizen with my surname who had fled the country on a drink driving charge)
* I got to ride the centrifuge at the Astronauts Hall of Fame courtesy of a fellow cycle tourist
(I was nearly sick)
* The people were amazing and I will never forget their Friendliness and Kindness
(a work friend had joked, "You must be 'effin mad, you'll come home in a bodybag)

I came back changed forever...

#cycletour

'The Southern Tier'
https://www.adventurecycling.org/routes-and-maps/interactive-network-map/

(Slideshow using my new Chromebook)