This week went by all fast

let this be a warning to all the animales that get in front of the freight trains. this is a classic shot. poor little fish. This was the one time Josh was in front of me leading the pack and a deer jumped out in front of him and drilled it. we've seen lots of sleeping animales. they're always all close to the road though i dunno how the cars don't wake them up. the raccoons have been a common sight to see as well. "Coons!" "They keep gettin into our back porch, mama just chase 'em off with a broom." "no, not racoons ya idiot....."

This is a big ol' wooden horse that the Trojans used against the Spartans. I think they remixed it up a bit. Amish style, you know to keep you on your toes.
This guy is all cool, we slept in his back yard and he cooked us dinner. it was raining all dang day and we were able to scrub ourselves with soap at his house. his name is Lee, he's all funny and he's mad at his kids school cuz they only allow 2 bathroom breaks the whole nine week. so he said he's gunna kick someones trash cuz that's not right.

This was the first house that let us stay in their yard. We applied what cool Pierre taught us and we started knocking on doors asking if we could sleep in their yards. I felt like I was back in the mission again. People still lie to us and give horrible excuses and don't give references but at the end we found a humble man that let us in his property. It was all neat and we saved some gold a la vez.

We're in Ohio now. we've seen more Amish and it's neat. We told the ground to take this picture and it did it for us.

I like these classic signs. Words to live by.

too bad I don't have a safety belt, but I'm still riding a million miles. Wow I changed my shirt for once, I hope Loverly notices. So now Josh will be flying home tomarrow this was a good week we did about 350 miles we think, i can't do the trivia question anymore cuz i don't even know, the dang Speed-o-meter keeps jumping. He's getting a little jumpy lately. Now we're just cleaning all the gear and bikes and planning for the next route with Jeremy D cuz I'm a jack a word and planned kinda bad. Now this next week we'll have to do lots of miles to do with not a lot of time. But it should still be neat and all fun. I'm glad i'm not in college but this is prolly harder than it. kinda like the mission too.

1000 miles are over

Josh is dead after the second day with bad knees. But he's still a happy camper.

Here's Lake Erie. they say it looks like an ocean cuz it's so big but I saw land on the other side so nope, no good. The beach was all neat, instead of sand it had all kinds of flat rocks to skip on the water and the whole shore was a big ol' rock as I went out to swim. then I cut my hand on a rock.

Bout dang time we got out of New York. It took forever. Pennsylvania should be neat now. maybe we'll see more Amish.

Here's a classic shot. we went to rest and to leep and someone got my camera and took a photograph then returned it unharmed to my bag. Later the owner of the property told us to get the beep off his land. he wasn't really friendly but he was huge so we couldnt do anything about it.

Here's the 2 freight trains that go down the road at 15 -20 miles an hour. Josh wanted to name them Ace and Gary but I don't know about that one cuz that's nasty. We met a neat French guy yesterday. He liked to say the s word and use American cusswords. His name is Pierre, "that's his name in French." He's going cross country too but the other way, and he's only camped once, the rest of the time he knocks on peoples doors and asks to sleep in their backyard. He's like a modern day Adam Dalton. Josh and I are thinking of doing that one day, you know to be adventurous, After all I haven't shaved the whole trip and I have a thick beard and people are already calling me Grizzly Adams. They also say I look like Jack Harrison. "Keep ya'll busy."

Taylor's section: Done

I'm stuck in traffic at the bridge to get to the American side. Josh and I like to transform our bikes into cars and we just ride in the road and it works fine.

Here is Niagara Falls. we went to the Canadian side. So now I can say I rode my bike to Canada twice. The view was a lot better over there. AS we took this photo Josh took off the helmet to show respect for the viewers, but he left it and we came back and it was gone. so the helmet got stolen dang it. oh yeah and last week was when Taylor's helmet got lost. so now we have 2 bikers and zero helmets. we don't know what to do now. we might just have to go back to the office.

Try to find Josh in this picture. you'll have to zoom in. He tried to be like an olympic athelete and raise his bike over his head.

The last picture of Taylor as he finishes his portion of the trip and gets into the taxi. Now Josh entered into the scene and he'll be my rodman for a time being. So Taylor is gone that means the clown song will be on repeat the next few days. Now I have another trivia question for the readers. How many total miles have we done(Sunday being the last day)? And i'll take a quick poll from the viewers. Josh started this leg with virtually no basic training. will he make it? and if so how long? I'll be hearing your responses in the comments posts. they bettter be some good ones without any colorful language this time.

A typical day for a cross country biker.

This was a classic shot. What it is is: a different church at every corner of this intersection in Palmyra, NY. it goes from the top left to clockwise: Methodist, Protestant, Baptist, Catholic. That's kinda neat. I also wanted to show off how cool my camera is and how it's better than Jana's minus the 4 foot lens. (I'm kidding Jana don't ruin my blog now.)

Taylor eating a wild pear. There was no Partridge though, a la pinta. Bottom: is a nice patriotic fire hydrant in a town that I forgot the name.

Nice action shot of looking at the map and peddling down the Erie Canal. trying to avoid the clown song as much as possible. I hate the clown song and it's always playing.

Another neat Castle. It was a Church but got bought out or handed over to be something else.

Now this is what Jana was going wild about; an Amish farmer with his huge ol' Belgium horses. He had a thick beard and no rubber on his wheels just steel ones. What was neat though that on the back of the trailer was little triangle reflectors, I guess the good ol' Government made them put it on, now it's not as authentic and dropped 2 points. I think they wanted to put brake lights but realized you can't plug it into the horse so it didn't work.

This is Taylor and I at the Hill Cumorah. If you don't know where that is just ask your local LDS Missionaries and they'll be more than ready/happy to explain.

A Typical Day

Now then I've had a few anonymous requests that the public wants to know what we do on a typical day, so i'll run it through as best as it can get:

5:30AM my alarm goes off
5:31AM I shout out spanish swearwords and realize I'm all sore and tired.
5:32AM sit there.
5:55AM kick Taylor cuz he's not awake.
6:00AM usually up and about trying to get my beep together or eating a balanced breakfast wich includes of oats and raisins and chocolate milk and a banana and hard boiled egg or two.
7:00-8:00AM take forever trying to leave camp.
8:00-9:00AM riding at a slow pace cuz body can't function at full performance.
9:00-10:00AM clown song is playing
10:00 or 10:30AM eat a treat(granola bar or banana or egg)
12:00PM distance traveled: 20 miles. It's weird every dang day no matter what happens if we leave at 7 or 11 AM we only get 20 miles by lunch, I think it's a sign.
12:30 or 1:00PM try to find a local library to do research at the county like Mitch does. We also charge batteries or use the toilet talking trash.
1:00PM eat something whether it be other fruits and vegges we pick up along side of the road or stop at a rinkadink local food smoke-a-joint. IE. yesterday we ate at a neat hotdog stand that had salt potatoes. and it was all good.
1:00-2:00PM usually find a fruit stand where we buy corn or peaches or plums or other foods and grains.
2:30PM there's usually a good headwind by this time.
2:00-3:00PM Clown song is still playing and it's on repeat. but still get a lot of miles covered.
3:00PM eat corn (apple, peach).
3:07PM throw cob (core) on Taylor after I already got hit by his.
3:30 PM wishing we were at the campsite.
4:00PM find another fruit stand and/or fill up with water.
4:30PM burned from the sun.
6:30PM pull into campsite (no later than 9:00PM).
7:00PM set up the tent and take out our crap and put onto table.
7:01PM rest.
7:01.30 secondsPM get eaten by mosquitos.
7:02PM scrub ourselves with soap if shower is available.
7:30PM eat din dins, which contains Mountain House I like that a lot, or Sardines and bread, or sometimes just snack on whatever cuz we ate something before.
8:30PM look at map to see where we're gunna camp tomarow night and how many miles we'll do.
9:30PM I do an account of the day's work in my little booklet.
9:45PM read the Book of Mormon.
10:30PM enter tent.
10:35PM Leep!
Middle of the nightAM wake up to drain the main weasel and that's it, THE END!

*note that during the day Taylor and I have our kip bike prollems and also a few KOM races up the hills.

I'm making a fire. and stoking it. and I'm jon.










this is a sign that tells us to watch out for horses and buggy's. Prolly didn't know that one. We haven't seen any amish though.














I remember one time working on Gantzel road with Josh D. we saw Bowser driving down the road in his little blue car waving to us. Now I know where he lives. It's a neat ol' castle with a knight that guards the door. So today is Wednesday and New York is a long ol' state, I'd say my pick of favorites for the New England states is Maine. So I don't have much time the librarian is kicking me off and I hate these apple computers. I spent half the time figguring out what I was doing. thes computers are cheap and all slow. I'm nevr buying a dorky a MAC. So I'll post more later.

Week 1: gone.

After a week's worth of dealing with my stupid Kip bike, and I hate my bike similar to how Biff hates his tar, It broke down on Sunday. and by broke down I mean it would just be in nuetral. I never knew a bike could do that, but I would be peddling and it would be going nowhere. so today(Monday) Taylor towed me to the local bike shop and I bought a replacement. But it's still a Kip bike so I dunno what to do with that one.
We finally got into New York. FYI this was the first state sign that we've seen. So those of Maine and/or the Shire, or Massachusetts are currently unavailible. Well you know how the saying goes, "beggers can't be choosers."

Our diet consists of stopping a fruit stands and buying fruits and veggies and I've never eaten raw corn off the dinghy, but it's prettty dang good especially going down hill 25 miles an hour then drilling Taylor with the cob when it's done.

This is the first flat of the trip. it happened a few days ago when Taylor rode over an inch long thorn. the tube was almost destroyed. It took about an hour to change and we continued on wih the day's travels.

Here I am with a famous Indian of the Northeast. His name was Wind in his Hair. we saw him after we stayed at the indians campground.

Now then we've been biking for a week. Trivia question: How many miles did we do the first week? you have to guess dang it and I'll post the answer later. We've been fortunate enough to have had a shower at all the campgrounds we've been at. So I've been able to "scrub my self with soap gunna eat everybody!" and that's been nice cuz when I deposit the dirty clothes in the bag and take them out to wash they reek so dang bad. One of the campsites we warshed our clothes and they don't get clean very well. They're still brown and dirty and my shorts smelled like fish for some reason. But It's been the neates thing still.

The Trip Continued into Massachusetts.

wait one last photograph i wanted to get it. here we are here in the town of Beep-hole Mass., the reason why is cuz if you say the name you'd be cussing so yep don't say it.

Dang it I forgot to rotate that photograph eh oh well you can just turn your neck. I'm in front of another Castle/Church with a neat ol' steeple. FYI thats right across the street of the previous one. It's strange to note though that senior citizens still can serve a purpose but that as we've been traveling we haven't seen a single LDS Church. Out of all the towns we've been in there's a million others too. Now why would that be?? I guess I can't all be like Queen Creek and have an LDS Chapel on every corner.

This is a neat ol' Castle/Church. One of the many sights to see in New England, church after church. and they're all old.

This is at a neat draw-bridge by the Haptons. The Hamponites weren't too happy with this one

The Trip

That's a lighthouse in Maine I was off in deep thought.

The Atlantic Coast with our back tire in the water, as well as the rest of the bike. There was also a giant urtle gurtle turtle made out of sand.
"Yep, that's your big boy."( no one can guess where that came from, and Josh isn't allowed to answer this one.)

I'm cool in this photo and I took the signs advice. I realized that I'll be traveling for 3500 miles and I won't have to stop at a single dang gas station, well maybe to get a SODA! or a ched bull when I'm with Jeremy in that case it will be every hour.

FYI that says share the road. I noticed that the citizens of the New England area treat their bikers all good-even to erecting a war statue to them. well then I'm sure the readers are panicking wanting to know what I wrote in my stupid blog. We assembled our bicycles at the airport and the clown song immediatly began to play. But we manged to find Brent's house (He's the guy we lept at the first night) So we lept on his porch and got off the next morning in the rain and it was all good. Eating wild apples off the side of the road can be a real treat. LAst night we didn't make it to our desired destination. we rode 70 miles and we had a few underestimates and other factors. We've been riding along the coastline and It' been all neat, the smell of salt water, the 60 degree weather and breeze. the lush green rolling hills, the clams and lobtser. I've already gone thru half the budget because of eating delicious treats. Today we've been riding and we went to the Hamptons we tried looking for George Costanza's house but failed miserable. We did see some of the neatest most richest house but I didn't get any pictures so your loss! Waylie and I are trying to keep the ride interestante more than it already is and something to help keep us on our toes. It's a little bet we're doing -whoever wrecks has to buy the other person dinner. So today I was drafting behing him cuz we had a mean headwind and he just missed a construction cone and I was right behind him and didn't react fast enough and I drilled it. Now I figured I could have just plowed right thru it cuz they're not that dang big, but "nope, no good" I hit it and it just thudded and I tipped over. and Taylor laughed at me the whole time. well tonite our goal is to get to Salem, MASS. we have about 15 miles, we're gunna go hunt a few witches and play the wigi board game or whatever the beep it is that summons devils, you know keep things interestante, see if it accually works and it should be neat. So that's it. any questions or concerns I have my quides phone with me so just call but remember I'm 3 hours ahead right now so factor that in. all I know is that this is one of the best investments I've ever done. I'll write more later. say bye! ok bye.

Where we're at

packing

Let's start off with amoment of silence... well then, tonites the night I've, not to mention you've been waiting for. We loaded up our crap into boxes so that we can leave at the crack of Uncle Don. By the time you'll be reading this I'll be in an airplane on the way to fufilling another adventure. There's a famous quote that goes: ideas bring in nothing unless carried out. I like to think of it as an idea that me and my backstabbing friend Ben once had 2 year ago. But as you can tell he's not in the photo now is he? That story can be for another day. Well if no one else has anymore questions I'll just go along my way and updates will be available at my nearest local library as long as that beep sasquatch doesn't get to me first. "This is it don't get scared now."

You're invited to...

Follow the miraculous journey as Kimball explores America’s beautiful countryside. After dipping his rear (wheel) into the ocean off the coast of Maine, he began the arduous trek across the highways and biways of the Great USA. He will complete his trip by dipping his front tire in the Pacific Ocean after riding a grand total of 4000+ miles.

He will have several friends and family members legging up with him as he travels. Here is a brief schedule telling who is his riding mate that week, what states they've traveled through so far, and how many miles they covered that week:

Week 1 -

Taylor - ME, NH, MA, NY - check

Miles: 362

Week 2 -

Taylor - NY - check

Miles: 395

Week 3 -

Josh - NY, PA, OH - check

Miles: 365

Week 4 -

Jeremy - OH, IN, MI, IL - check

Miles: 452

Week 5 -

Mom - IL, IA, NE - check

Miles: 315

Week 6 -

Mom/Erin - NE - check

Miles: 406

Week 7 -

Erin - NE, IA, CO, WY - check

Miles: 510

Week 8 -

Dad - WY, UT - check

Miles: 486

Week 9 -

Diablo - UT, ID - check

Miles: 220

Week 10 -

Diablo/Lindsay - ID, OR - check

Miles: 434

>Week 11 -

Lindsay - OR- check

Miles: 241

Grand Total of Mileage Biked while going across the United States of America over the course of 11 Weeks:

4,186+/-

preparing

Now today I had to do a few adjustments even after recently getting from the bike shop, Ol' America, still had some cleaning up to do (yes i thought about it and that's the name I'm giving to the bicycle whoever can guess por que? will be the winner and if you guess a stupid answer "i award you no points, and may beep have mercy on your soul."(more points if you figure that one out)). It's a junky ol' bike similar to junky ol' Einstein, now I offended Jeremy D, but as in the words of Jordan Mellor "good enough." Ok well then if anyone noticed I am using the official bike manual complete with references to the Book of Mormon. Makes you think huh? Dad even pointed it out. Makes you think again. So tonite I scotchguarded all my crap one coat so that it can be waterproof when the tornado hits in the mid-west. This is gunna be the neatest thing.

training

My friend Jerry Mya and I decided to do a nice 30-35 mile bike ride for my training on Monday, he just wanted to tag along and hoped he didn't die. He hadn't riden a bike in ages and de repente wanted to do it with me, "so i said sure."(whoever can guess which movie that quote comes from and who said it wins! Yeah!) Fortunatly he had a flat within the first mile and he just cruised next to me in his rich 2008 Mitsubishi Eclipse while I biked the whole dang thing up towards Roosevelt. So that was fun. today i did more training in the which i did 40 miles and I was pretty dead after words and got all burned, but I was listening and being motivated by my devil music and i noticed a substanial increase in energy when I listen to it. And it helps a lot. So Myth Busters wins again and proves that devil music "still can serve a purpose."(guess that one and also win!). Now I'm just sitting there waiting for Monday to come when I can begin my adventure. Rated R.

Am I doing it right?

I don't know how to work these stupid blogs but I am desperate. What do i do, talk about my personal life and display for everyone to see? Last night I went bowling with Josh and his friends and Ben, and I won the first game but lost the next two, so I lost a few bets. I'm not gunna be filling up my tank as fast as I'd like now. This morning after 3 hours of leeping, I rode bicycles with Reebar and friend Joseph at some trails in the McBowell movement mountains (I just made that one up, man I'm all cool) in Scottsdale. I liked it and almost got a t-bone steak by a golf cart and a Saguaro cactus. Just a little preparing for my adventure so I don't get worked. FYI I'm biking from Maine to California and leaving August 11. And I hope it works too. So if readers that are interested in the crap that I'll be doing, well I'll be posting often about what will be happening or if i'll get eaten by a bear or bloody bones. Run! post some comments dang it!