Pedaling & Paddling Around America

March 2, 2006 7:43 PM

Pedaling & Paddling Around America. Swedish adventurer and climber Renata Chlumska is circumnavigating the USA's lower 48 states by bicycle and kayak. She originally planned the trip with her late partner, the great climber Göran Kropp who most famously rode his bike from Sweden to Nepal, climbed Everest, then rode back. After his death, the project was put on hold while Chlumska dealt with US visa regulations. If you are on her route, go out and say hello.
posted by liam (11 comments total)

She's already on the third leg of the trip, right? I couldn't make complete sense of her maps and schedule.
posted by mathowie at 7:53 PM on March 2, 2006

She's around halfway, just north of Orlando,. She started from home in Seattle and is going anti-clockwise. You can drag that little rectangle around the mini-map, and the diary/blog records every couple of days of the route.

(I never know whether it's better to post these project diaries at the start, when there's potential but no content, or further down the line.)
posted by liam at 8:04 PM on March 2, 2006

Wait a second, Orlando's not on the coast. Her map is a little inaccurate. It looks like she's around Daytona Beach.
posted by liam at 8:07 PM on March 2, 2006

Wait.... it's not a drug funded bondage tour?
posted by pompomtom at 8:08 PM on March 2, 2006

*pedaling
posted by booksandlibretti at 8:19 PM on March 2, 2006

Well...she's selling pedal-power.

[/embarrassment]
posted by liam at 8:29 PM on March 2, 2006

Wow. Kropp's bio is astonishing.
posted by weapons-grade pandemonium at 8:33 PM on March 2, 2006

Kropp sounds like one hell of a character. Yes.
posted by troutfishing at 8:38 PM on March 2, 2006

Do Flash site developers all have tiny monitors?
posted by HTuttle at 9:37 PM on March 2, 2006

that means I just missed her go by Tampa Bay...she is lucky she missed Gasperilla by a few days tho ;)
posted by gren at 5:13 AM on March 3, 2006

Thanks, liam. I've always wanted to do a long distance bike trip somewhere. I met a Brit in Thailand that had spent years biking around Burma (myanmar) and Thailand and of course had amazing stories. Seems like such a great way to see a country.
posted by shoepal at 6:56 AM on March 3, 2006