I left work two years ago this month to finish college. With degree number two on the verge of completion, I will go back to work this summer. The wife has been our sole bread winner since I quit, so when I go back, she intends to take a similar hiatus; not for school (she already has her EdS), but to stay home with our 6-month old son.
THEREFORE... time left available for one last epic ride is quickly running out. My wife is a teacher and will be off for the summer the last week of May. My goal is to leave that same week and spend 14-21 days completing the following route, starting from my current home in north Georgia:
This is a very rough draft of the trip I would like to take, with absolutely no confirmed particulars, but it includes the general regions of the country I would like to visit. I'm very familiar with everything between my Georgian point of origin and the Michigan/Wisconsin border, having logged thousands of miles crisscrossing the Appalachians and my home state of Michigan, but the trip west of Wisconsin is uncharted territory.
I want to see both northern and southern portions of the Rockies. I'd like to see some stretches of western desert. And pretty much anything else of interest anywhere on (or near) the line on my map.
Suggestions?