The Bar Mitzvah and Beast

Man plans, God laughs. Oh, and bicycles are involved too. Amateur bike rider, father of three, and everyday public school teacher Matt Biers-Ariel never dreamed of riding a bike across the United States until his hard-to-impress teenage son, Yonah, refused to have a Bar Mitzvah as he approached age thirteen. Something had to be done to celebrate this rite of passage, so Matt, his wife Djina, Yonah, and little brother Solomon decided to saddle up for a physical ride of passage one that would take them 3,804 miles by bicycle from the waters of the Pacific Ocean, across the Rockies, through Midwest small towns, and all the way to Washington D.C.