>>1018292I was doing shitty temporary work at near minimum wage and I quit when I got accepted into graduate school out west and wanted to start riding.
I loosely preplanned the route. I knew the starting point, the ending point, and a bunch of places I wanted to visit along the way, but I changed the details of the route based on local advice, weather, information and my schedule. For example, I knew I wanted to visit Glacier National Park and go from there to Spokane, WA, but I didn't decide until a few days beforehand that I would skip the hiking in Glacier and do so by way of Yaak, Montana due to the rain in Glacier and my dwindling time to make it to my final destination to do some viewings for places to live.
I'm not sure when my next big trip will be. I'm hoping to do Alaska to Tierra del Fuego eventually, but I'll need more $ and time for that, and I anticipate being busy with school and then a job I want to keep for a while. I'll definitely take some week-scale trips around WA. The last time I was here by bicycle the rain kept me from spending as much time as I might have liked enjoying the west side and the national parks. In the spring I'll probably take at least a couple weekend trips up into the mountains.
The South/Southeast and Midwest are the only regions of the US that I haven't visited by bicycle and I don't have any great desire to do so. I'd rather stick around the West/Northwest.
