Marty and Jake's Lists Part One

This is the first of a few sets of lists and observations we have compiled in our trip. Enjoy... we hope!

Scenery by State

1 – California – some crap, but San Diego County was amazing.

2 – Alabama* only 70 miles, but the Redneck Riviera was sweet.

3 – Arizona – diverse, challenging and sometimes scary.

4 – Texas – Again a bad rap on some, but we were there for over two weeks, there is some “crap residue”.

5 – Florida – Would rank higher, but we know it really well, so there is nothing that new for us except the dang hills we did not expect.

6 – New Mexico – Nice until we headed south of Silver City.

7 – Louisiana – Not their fault, Jake’s ailments kept us off course a lot.

8 – Mississippi – hey, sorry.

Road Quality by State

1 – Alabama* only 70 miles, but fantastic.

2 – Florida – great pavement good route.

3 – California – surprisingly beaten by Florida due primarily to the rugged terrain and that run into El Centro.

4 – New Mexico – Pretty good stuff but the recycling effort there seems to be chucking beer bottles onto the road.

5 – Arizona – Same recycling effort, but scarier roads especially from Superior to Globe.

6 – Texas -- Texas gets a bum rap as we were there forever, but there was enough bad stuff to rank them low.

7 – Louisiana – another bum rap because we were off the adventurecycling.org route for many miles, but that Huey P. Long Bridge was horrible. I would sooner ride the FDR Drive from the George Washington Bridge on a bike in rush hour than go there ever again.

8 – Mississippi – by far and away the pits, the worst, the bumpiest, the crappiest, the most flooded, dismal, excuses for roadways in the country. And we were on the adventure cycling.org route for most of that state. YUCK.

People by State

8-way tie – people are really great. No baloney; we tested many of them, we promise.