Very cool. What do you think is boring about going straight across the country? The praries? If that's the case, it can be quite the opposite. Case and point: One day riding in eastern Alberta, I stopped in this random *tiny* town for a rest, and it seemed pretty dead. So dead, in fact, that not a single person was there. Just to varify this, I sat on someone's front porch for a good two hours, and not a single person was to be found or a single noise to be made. Kind of freaky, actually.

Also, in defence of the praries, they're only "boring", scenery wise, if you compare them, to, well, everything else. Rather, take it as a given that it has it's own quirks, interests, and value.

The Yellowhead is a wicked road. It's built like a traffic-intensive highway, but the "shoulder" is actually wider than one of the driving lanes, so unless you're going solo, you can ride two abrest for the entire lenght with tons of room to spare.

If it's not yet obvious, I did the cross-Canada thing in '03. Self supported, 8000km, from Van to St. Johns, NL. Check out www.whereisjer.com