Thus far and the plan

I've ridden more than 2500 miles so far since leaving San Jose six weeks ago. I'm taking two days off in Fargo, the biggest city I've been through since leaving the bay area. From here, the plan is to ride across Minnesota to Duluth, a small city on the shores of Lake Superior that I've always wanted to visit. After that, I'll ride 300 miles south through Wisconsin to my hometown of Decorah, IA just in time for Nordic Fest; then onto Urbana-Champaign, IL; and then Athens, OH. The route from Fargo to Athens looks something like this:



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The exact route is still to be determined as I go. The section between Decorah and Urbana may or may not be on a bicycle, and after Athens, my options are open again. One option I'm thinking about is to ride across Pennsylvania to Philadelphia (a former home of mine), then across the pine barrens of New Jersey, up the Jersey shore followed by a ferry into Manhattan. After that I could even ride the length of Long Island and take some ferries to Rhode Island and possibly ride through Wareham, MA (another town I've lived in) and then up to Boston. I'm really getting into speculation here, though. True destination beyond Athens, OH: unknown.