Jokes Across America

Welcome! This website is a few things:

1) An interactive blog charting two friends' bicycle trip across the USA.
2) A fun way to learn new jokes and a bit about the people that tell them.
3) Some of the raw material for our future book - Joke Pedalers: A Cross-Country Bike Ride Into the Heart of American Humor

Recent News:

We're Done! (Well, Sort of)...

Although we pedaled our final mile into the Atlantic Ocean last November, it's safe to say the adventure is far from over. And while all this putting pen to paper might be less exciting than rubber to pavement, we're getting into it.

And at last the manuscript is finished, all 3,824 miles, 135 pages, and 238 transcribed jokes. To prepare it for potential publishers, we recently went through a final edit and re-read. And we must admit, we’ve fallen in love with the trip and it’s cast of characters all over again.

We’ve got the good folks over at Prospect Agency in Brooklyn, NY shopping it around. If you or someone you know might be interested in seeing the proposal, please feel free to contact our agent, Becca Stumpf.

And sadly, our pedalers are still apart, taking their own trips for the time being. Dan rides the NYC subway passing out jokes to strangers (on color-coated slips of paper based on how dirty or clean they are). Simon has finally gotten the Buddhists down in Asheville, NC to share some of their most enlightened material.

We hope you’ve still got a place for jokes in your world. Seems we might need them now more than ever...

Please don’t be a stranger,

Dan and Simon