I have a new piece in The Daily Beast (“The Best Cross-Country Road Trip Is on a Bike“) on the a unique bike trail project called the Great American Rail Trail, with the ambition of crossing the entire country—uniting the coasts through a seamless, paved cycling route.
“….To cross the United States by bike is not for the faint of heart and, like thru-hiking the Appalachian Trail, events can easily go wrong.
These treks across the continent, however, may improve with the recently unveiled Great American Rail Trail. This coast-to-coast, roughly 4,000-mile, 12-state, and eventually seamless, paved trail is over 52 percent complete and sets out to address a range of U.S. health, transportation, economic, and tourism issues. It may, in its own way, even help reconnect the many Americas of our stridently divided political era….”