A Winter Sojourn: Setting Off for the Gulf of Mexico on a Bike in the Dead of Winter

Abstract

Doug Keil took a road trip on a bike to the Gulf of Mexico. He planned to take two months to arrive and one month to get back to Northern Iowa. He slept on the ground for seventy-five to eighty nights and slept in motels for another ten to fifteen nights. He burned forty-six and one half candles on the road for heat that winter, January-March. Looking back, this trek gave him a much deeper knowledge of our culture and the people who inhabit this North American Continent.