From sea to shining sea

Kilcullen-born Carl Byrne, who lives in New York City and also happens to be the Editor's son, took a trip across the US the other week to store his bike in San Francisco with a view to undertaking a number of West Coast drives later in the year.

He left NYC on Saturday morning March 4, and arrived 3,400 miles later on Tuesday afternoon March 7, having driven through a variety of weathers and across many varied landscapes, most of them quite flat in the middle of the country.

On the trip, using the interstate I-80, he drove through Pennsylvania, Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Iowa, Nebraska ("smelled of cows all the way"), Wyoming, Utah and Nevada into California.

He had dinner with a friend in SF that night, then flew back east to work the following day.

These are a few of the pictures he took through Wyoming and Nevada, and the last one with the sea in the background is, of course, the Pacific.

The bike is his pride and joy, a BMW he's had for some years, and the paint job is very non-standard.









Brian Byrne.