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Those more adventuresome riders often wind up in Maine, several hundred if not a thousand miles farther, and I don't feel the need to see Maine, as much as I'd like to give Susan Collins a piece of my mind.
After Astoria, the starting point, there's supposed to be a pretty good tailwind along the Columbia River, a little gift for your first day out, and I will take it.
Here's a little outline of cities along the route:
From Astoria Oregon to Clarkston WA to:
* Missoula, MT
* Great Falls MT
* Dickinson ND
* Fargo ND
* Walker MN
* Stillwater MN
* across Wisconsin to Milwaukee, where I'll spend a few days, since the lodging is free (if you don't count the condo fee)
* ferry across to Muskegon
* across Michigan to Detroit
* into Ontario (remember the passport!)
* cross the border again to New York
* Erie Canal to the Hudson
* across the Washington Bridge to NYC.
Still aiming for a late May departure.
If you were into historical symmetry, you'd take the Adventure Cycling Trans-Am route, which started as the Bikecentennial route in 1976, the year we rode from Seattle to San Diego. It does, however, add big hills and extra miles, so who needs symmetry?
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