Cross-country road-cycling

[Noontidal]

Hi, I've been lurking here for nearly a year now, and now I have a question so I come out of my lurkage.

I am looking at bicycling from Washington (Seattle area) to Texas (around Dallas) and I'm trying to map out how exactly to do that, and I was wondering if any of you knew of a map-maker thingy that would be bike friendly? Of course I could just use the regular map maker thingy, but I figured I'd ask first.

Thanks.

ps. I plan on starting in June-ish.

[LordOpie]

here's one resource -- http://www.adventurecycling.org

[ioscope]

get a touring bike

or get a touring bike and credit card. Maybe a sleeping bag too.

[Noontidal]

Thanks for the bike-map link, it may prove to be very useful.

[-dustin]

we're riding from Austin to Seattle....well, actually Alaska, but anyway....

if you would like to know our route from last year, i can see what i can come up with. i can show you a city by city route:

http://www.texas4000.com/routes.php?route=Coastal

[Noontidal]

Very cool, I see you took it easy. What were the roads like, and did you just use public roads?

[-dustin]

the roads were descent. nothing too bad. i want to say Washington had the worst roads, but i might be wrong. arizona was a little shakey, because we were told the area we were riding through had the worst drunk driving in the States. all public roads.

[Noontidal]

Ahh, good, just a couple minor modifications and that route could be perfect. (I want to make a stop in Phoenix to visit someone).