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Brent Bundy is carrying a message with him.
"My friend Gina (Kosmas) died of breast cancer in 2004, so I just started basically biking from Seaside, Oregon, to Staten Island, New York!"
His main goal is to simply raise awareness about this disease.
He says if people stop him to ask, he'll tell them about Kosmas.
"Typically, I just ride my bike, and hopefully that gets the message out. But if somebody stops and asks, "What are you doing?" I tell them," he said.
"I don't want families to go through what Gina's family had to go through. It was just awful for the whole family, she left 3 small kids!"
But it's not easy to bike 3,500 miles.
"It's kind of dangerous. It's fun, though," he said. "I've met thousands of people!"
Bundy started his ride in June of last year. He was temporarily sidelined near the Poconos in January when he was struck by flying ice off a car. He had to recover for a few months after neck surgery.
"They fused my neck and they were like six hours," he said. "I was in the hospital and then they sent me home."
He says he had a hotel to stay at.
But this summer, after over a year on the road, he's expected to make it to the Atlantic Ocean. It'll be his sixth cross-country bicycle trek for Kosmas.
"The most fulfilling is when I get done and I dip my front tire in the Atlantic. It feels so good I can't tell ya!"
And this is a one way trip. After he hits the Atlantic, Bundy says, "then I fly back."