I agree in principle with you Oakleaf--I just don't know how the logistics will exactly work. I know in the south, we only have clusters of people and not much in between. I can imagine that would be the case in the mid-west as well. I think NE and Pac NW will have less difficulty hand-to-hand. I'd love to do a handoff, and I could potentially make it work in several different directions. I could do North FL (panhandle area), parts of AL, SC, parts of TN.

Just a thought, but perhaps, from Atlanta, Maidei could head down to FL and then from there up to the Carolinas and Virginia and then continue to the NE. NE TE'ers could decide where to go from there?

This is so difficult, because all of us want to be a part of Maidei's adventure and I hope that we can show her the US in as quick a time as possible. I know I intend to have her just a short period of time before I hand off to friends.