Jacobs gives new meaning to classic “summer road trip”

Brent Jacobs, a math teacher at LHS, crossed off a major bucket list item this summer. Jacobs spent his three months off school biking across the country. His journey started at the East coast and ended at the West coast.
During his biking expedition, Jacobs kept a blog. His progress and daily activities were recorded on crazyguyonabike.com along with photos and everything anyone would need or want to know about Jacobs journey cross country.
“I wrote it so family and friends could read it and know what I was doing and experiencing –. to know I was doing a lot, that I was alive,” Jacobs stated.
Although this is an incredible feat for anyone to achieve, let alone in the blazing summer heat, for Jacobs it wasn’t his first accomplishment of such magnitude, as his blog detailed.
In the summer of 2015, Jacobs started his bucket list off with a bang, hiking and climbing through 10 states and 11 national parks while living out of his car during the excursion. After Jacobs completed his hiking expedition, he felt anxious to see what adventures the summer of 2016 would bring.
Jacobs decided on biking the traditional Transamerica route with a detour through southern Idaho. He skipped the north Idaho section of the Transamerica route, since he once lived along that portion and wanted to explore more of an unfamiliar area, he said.
While Jacobs had previous experience tri-bike training for the Ironman triathlon and other various small races, he wasn’t accustomed to traveling such a distance, he said. From Yorktown, Virginia, to Florence, Oregon, the distance he traveled by bike covered roughly 4,145 miles, according to crazyguyonabike.com.
In his blog Jacobs listed a few reasons he decided to bike East to West on this trip. First was to get flying out of the way, and second was so his family and friends could bring him back home when he finished.
Jacobs’ blog is located at the following URL. https://www.crazyguyonabike.com/doc/page/?o=tS&page_id=464170&v=D8