Day 13 through 18: Saint Clairsville, OH – Zanesville, OH – London, OH – Hamilton, OH – Brookville, IN –  Columbus, IN – Bloomington, IN Following my most recent route through Pittsburgh, I decided that it just isn’t worth it to go through large metropolitan areas. The main issue is that the city traffic is far more dangerous than the […]

Day 7 through Day 12: Mcconellsburg, PA – Somerset, PA – West Mifflin, PA – Robinson Township, PA – New Athens, OH – Saint Clairsville, OH I sit here from the Red Roof Inn in Saint Clairsville, Ohio ready to head out for the morning.  I strolled in here at 8am yesterday morning after a very very rough night. […]

Day 2 through Day 6: Hillsborough, NJ – Philadelphia, PA – Newark, DE – Baltimore, MD – Westminster, MD – McConnellsburg, PA It was the morning of Day 2, that I decided to scrap my initial preplanned route and felt that just winging it westward would be better. So after a stop in Philly at the end of Day 2, I […]

I am currently writing to you from a youth hostel in Baltimore, Maryland, about 240 miles into the trip.  So how am I feeling? Pretty good actually.  I was the most sore after Day 1 and the soreness was all in my quads and my upper-back.  Very isolated.  I feel much better now, I think […]