The plan is not to rush, to ride slower, take more photos, visit things and places and maybe even talk to people !!! The reason for the initial route up to Virginia is to attend the Horizon Unlimited event at the end of April - then down the Blue Ridge Parkway to about Chattanooga before heading West and heading towards Arizona...... the rest is still in the thinking stage... I have just joined a Couch surfing site so will see what happens there....
