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KC area man to bicycle Revolutionary War trail

Submitted by Brent Hugh on Sat, 06/18/2011 - 10:32am

The Kansas City Star has an article about Bill Poindexter, who is taking a 700 mile bicycle ride along a revolutionary route:

Seven hundred miles over 21 days — that’s how long it will take a Prairie Village biker to retrace a Revolutionary War route as he maps out a new trail from Rhode Island to Virginia.

While most people are celebrating the Fourth of July with their families, Poindexter will be on a solo expedition along a National Historic Trail that winds through nine states and five major cities.

He is leaving July 1 to begin his expedition on the historical Washington-Rochambeau route, which was taken by Gen. George Washington’s continental army and Count Rochambeau’s French allied troops in 1781. The armies marched from Newport, R.I., to the Yorktown, Va., where they defeated Lord Cornwallis.

Read more about Poindexter's ride here. Poindexter went car free in 2009 and maintains a web site, Carfree American.

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