That’s the computer’s best guess at the total mileage for my trek. After painstakingly tracing my day-by-day route on www.mapmyride.com, importing the tracks into Google Maps and combining them to form a single mega-map, the whole route can be viewed at http://daniel.sheeter.me/route. There’s also a very tentative schedule at http://daniel.sheeter.me/plan with links to each day’s route.

I don’t want to spend more than two months on the road so you will notice there are four segments where I have opted to take Amtrak for the sake of speed. Taking my time through Nevada, the Utah Cliffs and the Grand Canyon meant sacrificing riding through almost all of Texas and Louisiana. However, the total trip length is still more than 2,000 miles[1]. While I don’t consider this a true cross-country ride, the mileage is definitely equivalent to a coast-to-coast ride. Maybe someday I’ll have the urge to go ocean-to-ocean.