What is the Trans America Trail? I really suppose it's who you ask, what year they made have rode it (or attempted to ride it), and what the mode of transport. Certainly, there is no lack of permutations on the maps. It a journey that has morphed and doodled. Every map designer I have followed for the last 5 years has endeavored to make it "better".
Is is possible that the we will be following in cloven hoof prints of the 60,000 oxen wagons that traveled a part of it during from 1810-1860?
Is is possible that the we will be following in cloven hoof prints of the 60,000 oxen wagons that traveled a part of it during from 1810-1860?
Even map designers I have followed for the last 5 years keep changing it. Some claim that they added more bucolic views and perhaps tamed it, others claim that it's their is a ride which is not for the faint of heart. So for us, the idea is travel on a journey which threads the fabric of America. A journey through bucolic America, and a journey which by way of the tiny dirt roads chosen will be at a glacial pace. We'll aim to be slightly faster than the Oxen Wagons that land grabbed the West.
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So, for right or for wrong, we picked a path. We simply can't live our lives like a flat squirrel (e.g how many squirrels do you see hit by a car as they ricochet directions?). Since we essentially live on the Atlantic Ocean, we'll call that one terminus. We'll start somewhere in Oregon and head east. Maybe we ride a "defined" track, or maybe we wander. And since nobody is keeping a score card, and there are no rally bonni to grab, there will be no penalty phase. Nope, just 3 glorious weeks viewing the landscape through a set of handlebars.