Two summers ago, my girlfriend and I rode our bicycles from southern Illinois to Astoria, Oregon via the Adventure Cycling Association's Transamerica Trail (est. 1976). In total we rode for 53 days and over 3100 miles, through 95 degree heat and white-out blizzards. The Transam itself is a route of country roads, lonely highways, and not so lonely thoroughfares stretching from coast to coast. Beginning in the east in Yorktown, VA, the "trail" takes you across the Appalachians, the Ozarks, north through Colorado and tracing the Continental Divide up through Wyoming and Montana, and finally across northern Idaho and Oregon. It's chalked up as definitely the best trip I've ever been on in my life. I could talk about this trip for days, and have, but we'll save the mushy stuff for another post.Check out the ACA for tons of other map sets here!Check out the pictures from our trip here!