Travel Reference
In-Depth Information
stage 3
uniteD states
June 7 to July 29
Distance to coVer: approximately 4000 kilometres, through
Vermont, new york, new Jersey, Pennsylvania, maryland,
Washington Dc, Virginia, north carolina, south carolina, Georgia,
alabama, mississippi, louisiana and texas
terrain: city streets, busy highways, rural roads and many
bridges
tyPical Weather conDitions: searing summer heat with
tropical thunderstorms heading into the southern states
haZarDs: extreme heat, heavy rain and lightning strikes,
speeding vehicles that whizz by missing me by centimetres, smog,
the notorious Fat Boy burger, officious cops, my aching body!
key eQuiPment: cap, t-shirt, shorts, running shoes, hyperbaric
chamber, rubdown table, cameras and media gear, litres of cold
water, nurofen, needle for puncturing blisters
Personnel: Bernie Farmer, katie Walsh, nick king, Jake
simmonds, emma cohen
