Need some help-new to cycling :) and about to bike 4000 miles..

[tangentgirl]

Holy guacamole. This will be an experience of a lifetime. Be sure to take lots of pictures and/or video and keep a journal/blog/whatever to record all this. One day, when you are 142 years old, your great-great-grandchildren will be talking and you will pipe up: "I rode a bicycle across the whole United States when I was your age." They will say, "oh sure, g-g-gma" and just when they are getting ready to go back to their augmented reality videogame with some kids on the MoonBase, you'll whip out a hologram scrapbook and they will be enthralled.