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Let's look at it a little closer: the Lincoln Highway is the first coast-to-coast highway originally established in 1913 and it would link New York City (Time Square) to San Francisco (Lincoln Park). In Fort Wayne, the milestones shows that New York is 724 mi (1,165 km) away whereas San Francisco is 2,660 mi (4,280 km) away.
But of the I do not plan to ride on the steps of the Lincoln Highway as it runs thru southern states such as Colorado, Utah, Nevada that are not on my projected itinary.
Nevertheless and according to this milestone, San Francisco is 3,384 mi (5,445 km) away from New York City. As a comparaision, my estimate with GoogleMaps on my projected itinary makes San Francisco 3,100 mi (5,000 km) away from New York City; still a little shorter.
The original Lincoln Highway had to wind quite a bit around the country and it had been realigned in many places to shorten it.
Nevertheless, tonight I stay in South Whitley, a little west from Fort Wayne, which ends my progression for this second week:
So eventually, according to my definite benchmark Googlemaps, I should have ridden 1,080 km (671 mi) and I would still have 4,000 km (2,486 mi) to go; that's roughly 20% done.
Yesterday I had to take care of the bike (realign some breaking pads, look foor tires I still haven't found). Today, I started to take care of the biker as I feel a little pain behind my right knee.
"Qui veut aller loin ménage sa monture"
(if you have an equivalent in English for that, Claire?)
More info:
* My detailed mileage day after day
* Everything about the Lincoln
Highway
* The Official Lincoln Highway Association
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Very good up to now . But indeed you have to take care of the bike and the biker , as the remaining four thousand Km (more or less) will be sometimes very steepy (I think of the Rockies) . I guess you have thoroughly studied your itinerary !
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PP.