The Whole Country, Ridden
Every glowing line is an Adventure Cycling corridor Coach has ridden — most of them more than once. Tap any route below and its road lights up here. The dashed gold line is the road ahead: it isn't history yet, it's a promise.
The routes, in words
The interactive map couldn't load on this device, so here is the record it draws: the Northern Tier coast to coast, the Pacific Coast five times, the TransAmerica Trail four times, the Southern Tier five times, the Great Divide twice, Route 66 twice in full plus one partial ride, the Atlantic Coast twice, Delmarva ridden, the Portland to Brunswick Maine Coastal Ride ridden, the Green Mountains Loop, Adirondack Park Loop, Tidewater Potomac and Allegheny Mountains Loop all ridden, the Lake Erie Connector, Chicago to New York City, the Underground Railroad and Great Rivers South all ridden, the Sierra Cascades, the 2023 start out of Las Vegas to Campo, the GAP & C&O twice, the Erie Canal twice — plus North Lakes, the Texas Hill Country Loop twice on Southern Tier runs, the Natchez Trace, the Florida crossings and more. Full list below.
The Route Ledger
Pulled from Coach's own route library and his word on the record: every section listed, he rode. Counts are crossings — ×5 means he has ridden that coast five separate times. One honest exception, named on its own card below: on the Lewis & Clark, one small segment in South Dakota — the Missouri River stretch — was not ridden; locals advised Coach not to ride it, and he listened.
Every Adventure Cycling route in America — ridden. Except eight.
That is not a bucket list. It is a near-complete sweep of the entire mapped touring network of a continent, done solo and unsupported, by one man on one rig. The eight that remain are not skipped — they are saved, still to ride.
Every mile before the Beast was earned on a Trek and a Specialized Rockhopper — no motor.
The bike touring began on — September 28, 2019, first pedal stroke, human power only.
The other machine that carried the pre-Beast miles — legs, lungs, and will, nothing else.
Those pre-Beast miles were human-powered across those two bikes. The record doesn't split them bike-by-bike — so this map doesn't either.
23,000+ miles on this one machine alone — a running total kept separate from the all-time ledger, because Coach counts everything twice: once for the story, once for the receipt.
Everything he owns rides behind him. No support vehicle, no crew, no sag wagon — when the map says solo and unsupported, the trailer is what that looks like.