Walking from Boston to San Francisco...?

Question

So next summer i plan to walk from Boston, MA to San Francisco, CA. This is roughly 3347 miles and yes i have taken in the fact i cant use highways that is the distance of using back roads to reach the destination. I plan on doing this within 100 days which would give me about 14 days worth of zero days for just eat and sleep, ive got a crew coming with me so i will only be carrying my body weight and not a backpack and equipment majority of the trip. I'll be walking about 38 miles a day and would really appreciate it if anyone had any advice on equipment or gear i should use.

Answer 1

38 miles a day?  are you a distance runner? endurance athlete?  100 days for 3400 miles is really pushing it...

have you trained?  worked logistics?

not harping on you  just fascinated and totally curious about this endeavor.

Answer 2

The best advice that i could give you at this point would be to plan out your intended route ASAP.

Rent a car for two weeks and methodically and slowly drive your intended route in a westbound  direction paying careful  attention to road conditions, grades, lodging availability , health care facilities ,dangerous places etc .

Doing that will give you accurate point to point mileage and will allow you to make needed modifications to your intended route

Allow one week to ten days  to do the WB journey and about 3 days to do the EB journey

I'm going to assume that you will be using US 50> aka the loneliest road in America.,aka the Pony Express route >across some of UT and all of NV.

If you plan to reach  Provo /Spanish Fork UT by the first week in September , you should  be able to cross that section of high desert as it it begins to cool off and reach and cross the Sierra before the snow flies

Good luck

Btw my rough guess is that you will take 250 days to do 5000 actual miles.

Answer 3

That is impossible in 100 days unless you bicycling or riding in some periods. Be prepare in one years. You must have a backpack with water, food, maps,cell phone and know how to deal with wild animals, be prepare in $20K.

Most people will give up such kind of idea when they start to do it. Just local TV shows a couple prepared to sail From SF to Beijing along pacific rim, but they only arrived to Vancouver,BC and back home.