> My impossible dream is a bit bigger than getting in a car and driving to somewhere or other. I'd like to bike it (and not a motorbike either). It'd be cool to just be able to get on my bike and come back when I feel like it. There are some additional logistical problems to this though. Namely, I can't carely very much on my bike. To be able to make it work I'd really need to plan it all out and have someone to do some driving, ferrying my suppiles (tent, food, change of clothing etc) from one place to the next. On top of that I can only go so far at a time I don't know how easy it would be to plan a route so that there are places for camping every 90 or 100 km.
>
> Now, assuming it could be made to work, a week or so of this would be nice. But I think it would be really cool to take a whole summer for it...
>
> If I can bike 15 km an hour for 5 hours a day for 6 days a week I should be able to get all the way across the country (Canada that is) in a little over 13 weeks. It's "only" about 6000 km. And then fly home. That would be an amazing adventure. Unfortunately it would also be entirely impractical since I don't have 13 weeks to spare (or the cash to spare for the associated expenses, or anyone willing to take 13 weeks to ferry the important things like food) not to mention the fact that that's a really long way to bike and I'm really not that amazingly athletic. Also it seems a little bit crazy to just decide to do something like this without a reason. I suppose one reason would be "I want to see the country" but that seems kind of lame when compared to 6000 km or when compared to 13 weeks for that matter.
>
> Still...It almost seems possible...if only I had 13 weeks...
>
> Rivi"entirely insane"kah

My cousin and his friend biked from the East Coast of the USA to the West Coast. If you're interested in bicycle travel, a *great* book to read is "Miles from Nowhere", by some woman whose name eludes me, but you should be able to find it on Amazon. She and her husband cycled around the world, taking all their gear with them on the bikes. He was a long-distance biker already but she wasn't; it took her the first few weeks to get used to it.

They cycled through the USA, Britain, Europe, the Middle East (where she had to bike wearing full-length baggy gowns, and crowds turned out everywhere to see the miracle of a woman riding a bicycle), Indonesia and New Zealand. It's a great read.