America 2020

Two years had passed since that trip from Prague to Prague with a little detour beyond the polar circle and I had a growing feeling that it would make no harm to again see someplace. But where? I had been to Russia already, so another land of unlimited opportunities – America.

I had no worries that this would be just stepping into the same river twice. After all, in Europe there is everywhere something else to see, every few kilometres a new country with a different countryside, sights and language. Sometimes you can ride through four countries in one morning (such as at the crossroads of Switzerland, Liechtenstein, Austria and Germany). But can one reasonably travel on a bike across US? And how to smuggle there a bike with fourty kilograms of stuff?

And to make matters worse, in March 2020 was travelling anywhere stopped by a pandemic. So just after it was over, if I wanted to travel still the same summer, there was no time to think twice – I just had to take the bags and go now.

Route

I have an air ticket to land at JFK in New York. And no return ticket, so the rest is open…