I spent a month on the road ~9500km, living out of my 06 Tacoma.

http://imgur.com/a/j7P1P


I drove ~9500 km, visited and photographed 10 cities for a client, biked 20-60km every day exploring the cities. Slept in my truck 12 nights, hotels or airbnb for the rest of the trip.

• Chicago - Rad waterfront trails, taxis tried to kill me, terrible driving, expensive, cold and windy, friendly people.
  
  
• Indianapolis - Nice river trails, easy to get around, some rough neighborhoods, rad velodrome, cool downtown area.
  
  
• Pittsburgh - crazy steep hills and driving, rad waterfront trails, cool bike museum, nice people, rad bike shop.
  
  
• Washington - Terrible driving, rad trails, touristy, expensive, neat to explore.
  
  
• Raleigh NC - Lots of rad brew pubs, a bit sketchy, nice universities.
  
  
• Philadelphia - A bit rough, cool city, tourist spots were a bit anti-climatic, rad riverfront trails, dope skateboard scene, sketchy neighborhoods on the Camden side...
  
  
• NYC & Jersey - Amazing riverfront trails, lots to see and do. Cabs tried to kill me. Expensive.
  
  
• Boston - Terrible driving and biking. I got lost constantly. Really expensive. The riverfront trails were decent. Cabs tried to kill me.
  
  
• Toronto - Good bike trails and bike lanes, driving is decent, cabs tried to kill me.
  

Attached are a few of the photos I thought you guys might enjoy.

 

Ah, waking up to street cleaners in walmart parking lots at 4am wasn't fun. Drove through a few big snow storms and rain storms. I was trespassing to get a photo and someone threatened to call the cops, snuck into a few hotels to get photos from rooftops and top floors, had some sketchy encounters with a few people late a night, but for the most part a played it safe, kept my valuables out of sight, parked in well lit safe locations etc. Truck did great.

 

Well that's awesome.. I definitely plan on doing this someday to take the wife all the places she hasn't seen. But this looks sweet. Nice job.

 

Try the Midwest next. Lincoln and Omaha Nebraska area for great biking, Madison Wi. the same.

 

Were the windmills from the Indianapolis area around 465?

Props to you for getting out and about.

 

Nailed it! hahaI drove from Saskatoon SK to Chicago.

 

Very Cool!

 

Home for me is bloomington, In. Although I've been in the south for 10 yrs or so. I pass them on the way to my folks place near ft wayne, In.

Great pics man. Glad you made it back safe.

 

Thanks! www.alijabos.com for more pics and some of the actual photos I took for this project.

 

Nice! I like how you have the consistency of using the bike as the subject.

 

What do you shoot with? Nikon?

 

yeah

 

Any pics you can share?

 

Thanks for the pics. Enjoyed.

 

Is that you in any of the photos ?? If so what of beside bike ?? Thanks.

 

Where are these Rad Waterfront Trials that you speak of In Chicago? I know their are some really nice walking trails down by the Chicago River. But nothing for OFF-Road trials.

 

Brought back so many memories. Used to camp in the outskirts, and rode bike into the city to the events/exhibits. College student affordable trips.

Wonderful pics! Thanks for sharing.

 

Great pictures.
Sensing that taxis/cabs and you did not get along very well.

 

Very cool OP!Where exactly terrain wise were you in Pittsburgh!?I was born there although have lived the majority of my life in CA.All my relatives still live there.