@john Park,
Great suggestions!
I have to ask, can you ride a bicycle for a prolonged period of time and or distance?
I used to race bicycles, like Tour de France style. Short rides were 30-40miles, long rides were 70miles. A day. 5 or 6days a week.
For me, I would be hiking it from town. According to Google maps, it would take me about 5hours by road. I know a lot of people say to stay off the roads! Tacti-cool OPSEC! Have you ever really tried to hump it through heavily wooded terrain? You could almost double your get home time. And now that winter has set it, humping it in the snow covered fields is even harder. I noted that in a post on Winter Travel.