Downshift with Devin

08/02/2016

The last blog.

For the last 2 weeks I have contemplated how to end this whole trip….but honestly this big adventure was just a beginning of something bigger. So here it is… The last 2 days of the trip…

07/11/2016

Pennsylvania

I had mixed feelings of Pennsylvania after hearing of the hills it offered me. It was 100 less miles then going to Upstate NY and being done early made me smile. I met a man at the border of Ohio/P…

07/09/2016

An interesting state.

Oh Ohio, you and your bad weather. I can’t stand riding in the rain. It is such a hassle to do anything but focus on dodging rocks let alone another problem in the way. Rain, Rain,Rain, and R…

07/07/2016

34 days, 2 bike chains, 2 flat tires, a broken deraileur, pinwheel, and bottom bracket.

07/04/2016

Oh Michigan!

Oh Michigan, you marvelously weird state. I left the ferry and bee lined it straight to shade as I figured out how to reach my dad’s cousin Randy. He was enroute to pick me up for dinner and …

07/02/2016

428 miles to NY.

06/30/2016

Knocking them off 1 by 1.

I entered Illinois with my head high hoping that it may be similar to Iowa with the same scenery. Nope, that s**t dropped off real quick and became immediately boring as the trees and everything el…

06/29/2016

Another state in the books.

Iowa, I told myself last November that I would never come back to you after seeing the north. I was wrong because you have been the best state I have traveled through so far. I began my pedaling an…

06/26/2016

Hello Illinois!

06/23/2016

Nebraska!

Nebraska…the good life the sign said as a sigh of relief went over me. I was sooooo happy to be out of Wyoming. The winds just beasted down on me as it didn’t want me to escape. All I s…

06/19/2016

The windy state...

Wyoming, the state that never goes down and a guaranteed 100 percent chance of wind. I can’t re-emphasize this enough as I traversed 400 miles across it over the last 4 days. I started at the…

06/18/2016

Short state, Short time.

Utah, one of the states I was actually looking forward riding into had been facing a wave of storms that caught me in the east side of Nevada. I found myself getting picked up by a young man who wa…