#georgeawyman — Public Fediverse posts

My jaw dropped when I first saw this photo. I can only begin to imagine the challenges that Wyman faced as he rode across Nevada. While it's true that he rode over the ties of the Transcontinental Railroad, I sure hope it wasn't the ties in this photo! By 1903, the use of ballast, or the crushed stone that you see between the ties of a railroad track, was fairly common, but there were still sections of older track that did not have ballast, as shown in this photo.

The next chapter of my electric cross-country adventure is now on Substack. I'm still in Nevada, spellbound by it's rugged beauty and gobsmacked at how George A. Wyman and others before him crossed these vast, inhospitable distances.

https://open.substack.com/pub/followingwyman/p/07-across-the-forty-mile-desert?r=2rzwg&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web

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The next chapter of my electric cross-country adventure is now on Substack. I'm still in Nevada, spellbound by it's rugged beauty and gobsmacked at how George A. Wyman and others before him crossed these vast, inhospitable distances.

https://open.substack.com/pub/followingwyman/p/07-across-the-forty-mile-desert

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As I do research for my #GeorgeAWyman story, I run into #bicycle #ads like this one. The bikes look so sleek!

I finally leave the safe confines of California - and it's relative abundance of EV charging stations - for the deserts of Nevada...

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https://open.substack.com/pub/followingwyman/p/06-into-the-desert?r=2rzwg&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web

Have you heard an electric motorcycle before? Whaddya think?

FollowingWyman Substack is here: https://followingwyman.substack.com/

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...that time in #Sacramento #California when I charged the ZeroDSR electric motorcycle next to a soda machine. The outlet was only 120V (standard household current) but it was enough to charge the bike overnight.

In 1903, George A. Wyman rode his motorcycle from San Francisco to New York and became the first person to cross the country on a motor vehicle - car or motorcycle. In the summer of 2016, I followed his route on a Zero DSR electric motorcycle. I'm posting my story on Substack.

https://followingwyman.substack.com/

#GeorgeAWyman #motorcycle #electricmotorcycle #roadtrip #EV #electricmotorcycle #MotorcycleTravel

The story behind this #photo is here: https://followingwyman.substack.com/p/05-up-and-over-the-sierra-nevada

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Anyone interested in a cross-country #RoadTrip? Here's the first part of my story about #GeorgeAWyman, who, in 1903, attempted to ride a #motorcycle from #SanFrancisco to #NewYorkCity. Hope you enjoy and subscribe to my #Substack.

https://followingwyman.substack.com/p/of-cross-country-road-trips-and-safety

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