Notice: Time - includes short stops at traffic lights, studying the map, etc.
My bicycle was taken to the USA for FREE by British Airways. They treated it as a second piece of luggage, and it had to be disassembled and packed in a box.
I would like to thank my friends Robert & Rosemary Steinbaum from NJ again. They picked me up at JFK in NYC, and I also stayed with them while waiting for my bike, which arrived a day later.
| Day | 1. |
| Date | 31.5.1999 |
| Mileage | 57 |
| Time | 5:00:30 |
| Average speed | 11 |
| Total mileage | 57 |
In the morning I finish assembling my bike - TREKKING FOX - HOT SHOT - and at 12:30 I start from Upper Montclair, NJ, heading for Camp Winnebago in Maine. I enter NEW YORK STATE after 23 miles. I find a good place to sleep by the Hudson River at Mount Bear State Park, but it is too early to stop. So I keep going for another hour. Later, I am very tired but cannot find a good place to sleep. So I stop on a lawn behind a preschool in the small town of Peekskill, NY.
| Day | 2. |
| Date | 1.6.1999 |
| Mileage | 68 |
| Time | 6:17:17 |
| Average speed | 10 |
| Total mileage | 125 |
Around 1:45 a.m. I was woked up by a strong stream of light from cup's car. And suddenly I heard" Why are You here?" My answer that I am bicycling from NJ to ME was a little shock for him. He even did not check my ID but anyway he made me leave. By the time I picked my stuff another car arrives. I cycled around 5 more miles and stopped again.
This day I reach Torrington, CT.
| Day | 3. |
| Date | 2.6.1999 |
| Mileage | 115 |
| Time | 8:01:14 |
| Average speed | 14 |
| Total mileage | 240 |
I discover in the morning that I have a flat tire. I fix it, but I am not successful in getting it off properly. It is cloudy but pleasant for cycling. This day I set my distance record. I cycle about 30 miles in CT, across the whole of MA, and about 20 miles in VT. I stop at a KOA campground near Putney, VT.
| Day | 4. |
| Date | 3.6.1999 |
| Mileage | 102 |
| Time | 8:08:39 |
| Average speed | 12 |
| Total mileage | 342 |
The weather was similar to yesterday's one. I reached town Laconia,NH by the biggest lake in this state - Winnipesaukee. It was a strong wind so mosquitoes were not so bad. NH is a hilly state that is called "Granite State".
| Day | 5. |
| Date | 4.6.1999 |
| Mileage | 65 |
| Time | 5:50:14 |
| Average speed | 11 |
| Total mileage | 407 |
It is a beautiful day. I pass Chocorua Lake and enter the mountain recreation area of the White Mountains. I meet my first cyclists here, and some of them give me good advice. The summit of Mt. Washington can be reached from Tuckerman Ravine. I set up my camp close to this place, by a brook.
| Day | 6. |
| Date | 5.6.1999 |
| Mileage | 7 |
| Time | 00:37:55 |
| Average speed | 11 |
| Total mileage | 414 |
I reached mountains' resort Pinkham Notch in the morning. The willing person watched over my bike. I bought a map White Mountains for $5 here but it was not necessary. Trails are well marked. So I have not bought another anymore. I climbed Mt. Washington in sandal because I had no other shoes. People looked at me a little crazy but I was faster and easier walking than most of them.
| Day | 7. |
| Date | 6.6.1999 |
| Mileage | 86 |
| Time | 5:50:14 |
| Average speed | 13 |
| Total mileage | 500 |
After a week of travelling, I finally reach Camp Winnebago at around 4:00 p.m. I have rain during the last 20 minutes, but it is not too bad, and I manage to finish the first part of my journey around New England.