CT-to-OR Stats

For the bike travel nerds and those that generally find counting things fun, here are several things that I counted on my trip.

- Total distance pedaled from New Haven, CT to Seaside, OR: 4259 mi (6854 km)
- Total days of riding: 68
- Average distance per day: 62.6 mi (100.7 km)
- Number of centuries: 4
- Number of bicycle crashes: 0
- Approximate food calories burned: 169,000 (equivalent in energy to about 5.5 gallons of gasoline)
- States ridden: Connecticut, New York, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Michigan, Wisconsin, Minnesota, North Dakota, Montana, Idaho, Washington & Oregon (12 total)
- Great Lakes encountered: 5
- Oceans encountered: 2
- Besides locals, I met people from: Australia, New Zealand, Norway, Netherlands, Denmark, Germany, France, Trinidad and Tobago, Canada, California, Colorado, Hawaii, Arizona, Arkansas, Maryland, Vermont & Massachusetts.

- Wildlife encountered:
MAMMALS-
Red fox
Coyote
North American porcupine
Groundhog
Eastern gray squirrel
Eastern fox squirrel
Red squirrel
Eastern chipmunk
White-tailed deer
Cottontail rabbit
American mink
Common raccoon
Striped skunk
North American beaver
Big brown bat
Bobcat
Thirteen-lined ground squirrel
Muskrat
Richardson's ground squirrel
Black-tailed prairie dog
Mule deer
Bighorn sheep
Columbian ground squirrel

BIRDS-
Wild turkey
Turkey vulture
Great blue heron
Baltimore oriole
Great horned owl (heard)
Red-winged blackbird
American crow
Killdeer
American goldfinch
Common yellowthroat
Canada goose
Herring gull
Ring-billed gull
Barn swallow
Common loon
Mallard
Ruby-throated hummingbird
Blue jay
Red-tailed hawk
Great egret
Ruffed grouse
American robin
Common grackle
Mourning dove
Red-bellied woodpecker
Mute swan
Northern cardinal
Rock pigeon
Black-capped chickadee
Sandhill crane
Red-breasted grosbeak
Eastern towhee
Brown-headed cowbird
Eastern bluebird
Bald eagle
Song sparrow
Yellow warbler
Eastern kingbird
Hairy woodpecker
White-breasted nuthatch
Chipping sparrow
Brown thrasher
Barred owl (heard)
Upland sandpiper
Pileated woodpecker
Northern raven
Double-crested cormorant
Northern flicker
Red-shouldered hawk
Eastern meadowlark
Osprey
American kestrel
Belted kingfisher
Northern harrier
Western meadowlark
Yellow-headed blackbird
Tree swallow
House sparrow
Western grebe
American white pelican
Black tern
American coot
American avocet
Eurasian collared-dove
Lark sparrow
Franklin's gull
Gray catbird (heard)
Brewer's blackbird
Black-billed magpie
Prairie falcon
Long-billed curlew
Ferruginous hawk
Mountain bluebird
California quail
Cedar waxwing
Ring-necked pheasant
Western scrub-jay
Snow goose

AMPHIBIANS-
Northern spring peeper (heard)
Green frog (heard)
Gray tree frog (heard)
American toad (heard)
Mink frog (heard)

REPTILES-
Common snapping turtle
Eastern box turtle
Painted turtle
Common garter snake

There were also several birds, a few snakes and some small rodents which I failed to identify. On my next trip I will definitely bring a small pair of binoculars, despite the extra weight. There were days on the plains when spotting birds, and trying to identify them, certainly helped relieve the monotony.


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