Most 22 year old students get a summer job. A lucky few might travel to some foreign land.

And then there’s Larkspur, California’s Dewey Helvestine.

On a $450 bicycle loaded with 25 pounds of spare clothes and camping gear, he set off from Norfolk, Virginia. 34 days and 3,763 miles later he rolled into Stinson Beach, California, stiff and sore in places he never imagined, but filled with memories of summertime cross country bike trip that most could only dream of, and few could ever finish.

Why ride across America, and why do it in just 34 days?