A mobile kitchen (and kitchen crew) traveled with the tour where three meals were prepared daily for the cyclists (except when churches would provide meals for them as they came through their city or town).

A full-size tractor-trailer accompanied the tour, carrying all the cyclists' gear and equipment. Each rider had two laundry baskets of "space" on the truck for the personal belongings plus a duffel bag that went in the center aisle during transit.

Both trucks were decorated with tour sponsors' logos.

Jared Helder, a Sea to Sea 2005 cyclist, is missing one of his two laundry baskets.

Cyclists had a chance to hang out, chat, use the mobile Internet connection, set up their tent, and - perhaps most importantly - rest after each day's ride.

With more than 100 riders on tour, most nights' accommodations looked like 'tent city.'

> More on the 2005 tour.