All systems go

We bought Mall0ry's Bike Friday this week. We now have two human-powered machines capable of delivering us from Oregon to Oklahoma in a few months. We are making it official with this post - we're selling our truck and setting off on a bike tour in August down the pacific coast and across the south west of America until we arrive in Oklahoma.

Here are the details for those of you with questions and concerns: As many of you know we are visiting home in less than a week and during that trip we are going to bring an entire truckload of our belonging with us. We're taking almost everything we brought to Oregon back home - clothes, dishes, t.v., stereo, etc. The second part to our plan involves leaving our truck in Oklahoma to be sold. This accomplishes a couple of things; obviously we have taken the truck off our hands and when it sells it will refund the money we spent on our new bicycles. To get back to Oregon we take the train. Now all that is left to do is get by for a few months with the bare minimum. We we pack our bikes to begin our trip and anything that is not necessary will be shipped home in a box and we're free!


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But how long will it take, where will you sleep, how will you eat, how many miles did you say that was on a bike?

We are assuming it will takes us about two months to complete the journey but because we don't have jobs, mortgages, or other responsibilities we don't have a set time table. We will have sleeping bags and a tent packed with us, also we will utilize the "warm showers list" which is a website dedicated to bicycle tourist. People who are apart of the site are all bike tourists themselves and they open up their homes for showers, meals, and possibly beds.

We plan on eating food from supermarkets and a steady dose of snickers and gatorade. The trip is going to be 2,365 miles long and maybe longer if we alter our route to check out some national parks or something.

I know we'll be explaining this a thousand times when we get home but I hope this builds a decent understanding of our goals.

P.S. The bike photo isn't Mallory's actual bike, just the same model.

-Trey