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Carnet de voyage de ma traversée des Etats-Unis à vélo avec mon chien.
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Articles : 24
Depuis : 03/12/2009
Categorie : Tourisme, Lieux et Événements

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quick update

Once again, I'm a little late with the updates but we're still doing good. We are in Ames, IA. It is very hot but we recently got really good at avoiding storms. Let's hope that we keep up like that. Encore une fois, j'ai pris du retard dans mes mises a jour mais je vais m'y mettre a fond et ca devrait arriver bientot. En attendant tout va toujours
Illinois... more corn and more wind!

Illinois... more corn and more wind!

Day 28 – Thursday 5th We though yesterday was windy… Today was horribly windy! And as we are travelling NNW, the wind is blowing from WNW. Plus it is fake flat going slightly uphill all day along and the sun is burning. Really tiring day! Anyway, we passed the border with Illinois beginning of afternoon and travelled on the state line for few m
End of Ohio, Indiana... that is flat!

End of Ohio, Indiana... that is flat!

Day 22 – Friday 30th We crossed Cincinnati today. As much as Jason is a city boy and doesn’t like bugs, I’m a country girl, and I don’t like the city traffic (especially with Java in the trailer). That brought some tension through the day I have to admit. We crossed the Ohio River and spend few hours in Kentucky. We went to the Devou Park i
Iowa

Iowa

Day 32 – Monday 9th We started this trip exactly a month today, and didn’t do too bad so far. Today, we stayed the all day at Davenport. We had to bring Jason’s bike to the bike shop to repair his back wheel. It took us a looooong time to go there (walking), have it fix and come back (we made a wrong turn). So we decided to take the rest of t

Unfortunate and unexpected return in Canada

We unfortunately had to stop our adventure and come back in Canada as quick as possible because of Jason’s mom death. We will try to be back on the road by the end of the summer. We’ll see how everything goes and we’ll keep you informed anyway. Nous avons malheureusement du arrete notre aventure et revenir au Canada au plus vite du au deces d
Denver to Gunnison

Denver to Gunnison

Our first days in the Rockies have been hard. Jason is not used to these altitudes and I got a cold with the air conditionning in the car, which gets worse and worse. The temperatures drop under 0 Celcius every night, and that pumps a lot of energy from us too. So we vary the pleasures and the activities while starting to cross these beautiful moun
back on the road

back on the road

That's it we are back on the road. Wally drove us to Bufallo (thank you again Wally) where we rented a car. We drove to Ames, Iowa where we picked up the bikes. And then drove to Denver to start again on the bikes. We decided to skip Nebraska on our bike trip to make up some time. And look at the picture, we didn't miss too much ! Ca y est, on est

1st month assesment / Bilan apres 1 mois

Equipment My bike I’m really happy with my bike. Within a month, the only things I had to adjust were the brakes because of the normal wear and the derailleur because of the normal stretch of the cable with time. Jason’s bike It wasn’t the most adapted bike for this type of use. Jason had to change the brakes, the tires and the tubes (many ti
Thanks

Thanks

That's the end of this trip. For this year a this year at least... :-) We'd like to thank all of the people who helped us on this beautiful trip. Thanks first to our partners who really helped us to realize this project. A big thanks to everybody we met on our way and helped us with their encouragements, a place to sleep at night, good food and abo
About what we can do or not without a credit card...

About what we can do or not without a credit card...

It looks like something doesn't want us to finish this bike trip... We stayed stuck in Gunnison, in the middle of Colorado for 4 days because my credit card got hacked and automatically cancelled by my bank. So, no bank card, no cash either, and that just at the beginning of a long week end obviously! Impossible to speak with my bank for all these